Furong Cave

Lying in the east of Jiangkou town, Wulong County, Furong Cave is the only cave that was listed in World Natural Heritage List in China.

Furong cave is a large limestone cave with 1846.8m in length, 30 - 50m in width and the same in height, in which the biggest room covers more than 11,000 square meters. Inside the cave, every kinds of speleothems including carbonate and sulfate is a feast for the eyes, rich and colorful, widespread in distribution, pure in quality and perfect in shape. Many kinds of the speleothems have not been found before in China, especially coral and dog-tooth like crystalline calcite flowers which are developing in pond and a variety of helictite, calcites, crystalline gypsum flowers which developed in the wall of the cave are even much rarer in the country and seldom seen in the world. The cave scenery, composed of these speleothems, is so exquisite wrought glorious, gorgeous the single, magnificent the whole that the eye can not take it all in.

Furong cave is set up with modern facilities such as acoustics and tape-recorded speaking system, and scientific lamp boards and lamp boxes, its light design reflects the whole effects and artistic dynamic characteristics, and the hue is restored to its natural colour. Visiting Furong cave, you can not only enjoy the natural art and magic but also enrich of much useful speological knowledge.