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Guyaju Caves 古崖居Gǔyájū
National heritage site · Beijing, Beijing
- Time needed
- 2–3 hours
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Beijing
- Region
- Beijing
- Type
- Heritage
- Listed as
- National heritage site
About Guyaju Caves
A group of 117 cave dwellings with some 350 rooms cut into the cliffs of a side valley west of Yanqing, found in 1984 and still of uncertain age and origin; the most common view links them to the Xi people of the Tang to Five Dynasties period. Stone steps lead up to rooms carved with beds, stoves, flues, window openings and lamp niches, cut at several levels so that parts of the cliff look like a many-storeyed building.
How to get to Guyaju Caves
Near Dongmenying village in Zhangshanying town, about 17 km west of Yanqing town by road.
Nearby
- Longqing Gorge 龙庆峡 20 km
Boat rides between sheer cliffs in summer, a festival of lit ice sculptures in winter - Badaling Great Wall 八达岭长城 20 km
Ming ramparts climbing both ways from a fortified pass, a short fast train from Beijing - Ming Tombs 明十三陵 40 km
Stone guardians on the Sacred Way and an emperor's underground palace to walk through - Cuandixia Village 爨底下村 50 km
Ming and Qing courtyard houses stacked in tiers up a hillside in the western mountains
Also within 20 km: Yeya Lake National Wetland Park 野鸭湖国家湿地公园 (under 10 km), Beijing Horticultural Expo Park 北京世园公园 (20 km), Guanting Reservoir National Wetland Park 官厅水库国家湿地公园 (20 km).
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