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Longyou Caves 龙游石窟Lóngyóu Shíkū
4A scenic area · National heritage site · Quzhou, Zhejiang
- Time needed
- 2–3 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Quzhou
- Region
- Zhejiang
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- 4A scenic area, National heritage site
About Longyou Caves
A group of 24 huge man-made caverns cut into the sandstone of Fenghuang Hill beside the Qu River, found in 1992 when farmers drained five village ponds and discovered that they were flooded caverns. Nobody knows who dug them, when or why: their walls, ceilings and pillars are covered in neat bands of chisel marks, there is no record of their making, and pottery found in the silt dates from the Han dynasty. Several caverns can be walked through, with tall chambers supported by stone pillars left in place.
How to get to Longyou Caves
In Xiaonanhai town about 4 km north of Longyou county town, beside the Qu River.
Nearby
Also within 20 km: Longyou Folk Residence Garden 龙游民居苑 (under 10 km), Longyou Rosewood Town 龙天红木小镇 (under 10 km), Huzhen Sarira Pagoda 湖镇舍利塔 (10 km), Shaoyi Hall & Hengshan Pagoda 绍衣堂和横山塔 (10 km), Xijiang Ancestral Hall, Lanxi 西姜祠堂 (20 km), Siping Village 寺平村 (20 km).
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