Guilin Attractions- Elephant Hill Park

11/03/2014 11:23

 

 

Located majestically at the south east of Guilin town and western bank of Li Stream, Hippo Footwear Mountain is considered as the icon of Guilin scenery. Initially known as "Li Hill", "Yi Hill" and "Chenshui Hill", the hill has a history of 3.6 hundred China travel agents million decades.

With an level of 200m, the hill systems 55m above the h2o, calculating 108m in length and 100m in size. Similar to an elephant relaxing slurping h2o from the stream with its long trunk, this hill is famous as Hippo Footwear Mountain for 100's of decades. Tale says that an elephant which belonged to the Emperor of Paradise came down to earth to help the people in their work. This angered the Emperor of Paradise, who stabbed the elephant as it was drinking at the river's edge and turned it to rock. Other China tour Info From Chinatour.com : Tibet Travel | Beijing tour packages

A very popular location, Hippo Footwear Mountain (Xiangbi Shan) once showed up on China currency bills. It is the icon of Guilin, situated at the 4 way stop of Li Stream and Apple Flourishing Stream in the center of Guilin town. It is a amazing limestone karst hill, increasing 55 metres over the stream with naturally-shaped cavern the bottom. It simply appears like an elephant dropping its nose into the stream. In the evening, it looks extremely wonderful. It is a work of art of karst scenery.

The most amazing feature of Hippo Footwear Mountain is said to be the Shuiyue Cave (Moon over the Water Cave). It shows of a circular, celestial satellite like cavern. The cavern is between the elephant's "trunk" and the "body". On a moonlit night, the cave's representation looks like a full celestial satellite sailing on the surface of the h2o. You will see an awesome vision of a celestial China travel satellite in the sky, the celestial satellite in the hill and the celestial satellite on the h2o.

The Hippo Footwear Mountain Recreation area is a great place for pictures. During the sun rise of sun set, many awesome picture can be produced.