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Tours (in English) take you down into a vast chamber for views of the many stalactites and stalagmites.
Some of the scenic formations of stalactites and stalagmites have names like Old Banyan Tree Welcoming Guests and Dragon Splashing Water, providing an idea of the poetic license enjoyed by Chinese cave explorers.
A guide will help to point out details that your untrained eye might miss — such as the monstrous face of Kronos here to eat his new offspring Zeus, and the small nipple shaped stalagmites on which the infant god is said to have suckled.
The caves and sinkholes have taken millions of years to erode; many of the stalagmites and stalactites have been hundreds of thousands of years in formation.
Take a guided tour of the translucent stalactites reaching down to fuse with stalagmites in glowing columns of red, green, and pink.