Vacationers, music lovers discover treasures in Asia’s longest cave

    Vacationers, music lovers discover treasures in Asia’s longest cave

    Vacationers, music lovers discover treasures in Asia’s longest cave

    A live performance is held in a karst collapse Suiyang County, southwest China’s Guizhou Province, Could 4, 2023. (Xinhua)

    GUIYANG, June 7 (Xinhua) — Amid the warmth of summer season, Asia’s longest cave, with its pleasantly cool temperatures and superior acoustics, has grow to be a best choice for music lovers, to not point out 1000’s of adventure-seeking vacationers.

    Shuanghe Cave, with a complete size of 257.4 km, is positioned in a vacationer resort known as Twelve Again in Suiyang County, southwest China’s Guizhou Province.

    In the course of the Could Day vacation, the resort held a six-day music pageant that includes live shows, rock and roll performances and symphonies, serving to appeal to 38,000 guests and music fans.

    Following the occasion, the resort has seen a bigger vacationer move, receiving some 1,200 to 1,500 guests every day, stated Yi Chuanbo, a supervisor of the resort.

    Yi added that vacationers have been given entry to a 4.8-km stretch of Shuanghe Cave that takes about two hours to stroll.

    Vacationers discover a karst collapse Suiyang County, southwest China’s Guizhou Province, Could 17, 2023. (Xinhua/Liu Xu)

    Combining the karst cave assets with actions together with analysis and research journeys, workforce constructing, tenting, and music and poetry festivals, the resort has attracted an growing variety of vacationers.

    On the entrance of Shuanghe Cave, a analysis and research workforce consisting of round 100 college students gathered collectively, having simply completed their go to.

    “By the journey, I’ve discovered loads of geographic data and witnessed the splendor and fantastic thing about the karst panorama,” stated Lengthy Sicheng, a fifth-grader from Meitan County.

    The resort has added a variety of recent actions, together with cave tenting, abseiling and through ferrata, to fulfill the various and particular person wants of vacationers.

    Vacationers discover a karst collapse Suiyang County, southwest China’s Guizhou Province, Could 17, 2023. (Xinhua/Liu Xu)

    “Previously, vacationers solely toured round for the day earlier than leaving. Now many desire to remain over,” stated Luo Jianjun, workplace director of the resort.

    Luo additionally stated the resort has organized a number of poetry occasions and is a creation base for the World Congress of Poets.

    Jiang Wei, a caving coach, stated that Shuanghe Cave has 4 layers, with eight fundamental caves and over 200 department caves.

    “The construction of caves located inside caves has drawn enthusiastic cavers,” stated Jiang, including that as much as 60 coaches like him are wanted in the course of the peak interval to information and coach these seeking a cave journey.

    Vacationers attend a coaching session earlier than exploring a karst collapse Suiyang County, southwest China’s Guizhou Province, Could 17, 2023. (Xinhua/Liu Xu)

    Li Yun, deputy chief of Suiyang’s bureau of tradition and tourism, stated that the county intends to foster new types of tourism together with the cave tradition, reminiscent of “cave+music,” “cave+journey” and “cave+sports activities,” to advertise the high-quality growth of the tourism business.

    (Internet editor: Zhang Kaiwei, Wu Chaolan)