So anyways, this post has pictures from one of my favorite places that I visited in China-- it's still in Tong Lu (the city where Grandma's Bridge is (see China Pics 8)), but it's totally different than those pictures you saw last time. We went to a building with these intricate paper cuttings (you'll see) and this BEAUTIFUL cave with amazing rock formations that are all NATURAL!
I couldn't believe how exact the cuttings were!! The sign said that these were cut by a 96 year old woman!!!!!!!!
Let's get this straight..... the BLUE is the PAPER. The WHITE is the BACKGROUND! Can you believe it?!!
This is the entrance to the rock cave... the day we visited it, it was SOOOO HOT OUTSIDE! There was cool air wafting from the entrance... it felt so good (until we got to the middle of the cave, when I started shivering haha)
The tunnel leading into the cave. The entire cave is lit up with colorful lights like these (they made the rock shapes look pretty cool!!...)
...as seen here :)
This is called the Waterfall Rock.
This AWESOME rock pillar is called Tower of Heaven.
Do you see the really small frog?!?! I went WOW!!! when I saw it!!!
These are called the tree rocks, because they resemble the thin trunks of trees! It's so cool!!!!
CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?? A STORE. IN THE MIDDLE OF A CAVE. They sold beverages and they had [damp] stone benches, so I guess it's a resting place. I feel so sorry for those people working there. They have to stay there all day :[.
This is just an impressive rock figure-- it has no official name, but I took a picture of it anyways :]
This whole rock scene is called "Heaven" because it looks so magnificent!
See, look-- proof :P! Well actually it was named Heaven because it had 33 large-ish rocks in the same area-- in China, heaven is said to have 33 layers.
* heavenly music! *
You see here a pool of water-- it was the most AMAZING thing I've ever seen in my ENTIRE LIFE!!! I'm not joking!!! My camera can't capture it (with or without flash), but our guide told us to look at it. What we saw was the image of a cavern that stretches down, down, down, about 200 yards down!!!! Then he turned on his flashlight and we saw that it was just water!!!! It was the most amazing thing ever!!! The water was just reflecting the ceiling!!!!!!!!
As you can see, this rock is called "Fairy Stalagmite" (don't ask me! I don't know how in the world they came up with that name!)
This is part of a rock structure called "Dragon's mouth" because that white bit looks like a long tooth.
Here's the bottom half of Dragon's mouth (the bottom tooth).
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