Things to do in Xingren

long quan dong

The "petite jade" among water-eroded caves, Longquan Cave is nestled deep in the mountains at Jiaole Dragon Vein in Xingyi, offering compact yet exquisite cave exploration. Though not grand in scale, this 1.5 km-long cave presents ever-changing scenery at every turn. It houses three glass-clear water pools with mirror-like surfaces, where paddleboarding creates an experience akin to stepping into a National Geographic painting. Longquan cave is located in Jiaole village, Yuzhang town, Xingren city, Qianxinan prefecture, Guizhou province. It is a natural karst water cave. Situated in the heart of "a health resort with cultural charm in Xingyi" and surrounded by famous historical relics like the Jiaole Han dynasty tombs, this cave attraction becomes even more captivating due to its unique geographical location and cultural heritage. The core highlights of Longquan Cave include: Exquisite cave views: Though modest in size, the cave features a picturesque arrangement of stalactites, stalagmites, stone columns and terraced fields, earning its reputation as the "petite jade" among water-eroded caves with scenery changing at every step. Crystal-clear waters: The cave features numerous shallow yet pristine karst pools with excellent water quality, resembling "glass water", making it an ideal spot for cave paddleboarding photos. Mysterious blind fish: The cave is home to rare blind fish (cave-dwelling fish with completely degenerated eyes), a living testament to natural evolution. Beyond sightseeing, Longquan cave offers diverse outdoor adventures including cave exploration, cave paddleboarding (photo-friendly), log bridges, and via ferrata. Experience water, land, and underground activities all in one day. With its cool year-round temperatures, it's an ideal summer retreat especially during peak heat.

Fengye · Xunzong Yijiadong Base

Wilderness: Tracing the Yi Caves | The Heart of Yi Culture, the Ceiling of Niche Cave Exploration Yijia Cave is located in Yangliushu Village, Xinlongchang Town, Xingren City. It is about a 1.5-hour drive from Xingyi city.It is a natural karst cave that blends Yi culture and has existed for hundreds of millions of years.The cave is filled with a dazzling array of stalactites, stalagmites, and columns, mainly in black, red, and yellow. Echoing the symbolic colors of Yi culture, the scenery is breathtaking at every turn, earning it the reputation of "viewing Zhijin Cave from afar and exploring Yi Family Cave up close." Core Experience: Yi Culture Cave: Inside the cave are Yi ethnic totems, Torch Festival scenes, and the stunning Chiyan Star Terrace, a perfect spot for taking photos.- All-in-one gameplay: caving, via ferrata, rappelling, and paddleboarding on underground rivers – unlock multiple challenges to the heart of the earth in one go.- Thoughtful service: Complimentary cave coffee (children can switch to other drinks) + ethnic-style bracelet as a souvenir- Suitable for: People aged 5-60 who love outdoor sports. 🌌 The combination of Yi culture and a hidden gem in the Earth's core creates a unique and photogenic destination!

Guizhou Outdoor Enthusiasts Adventure Club Shiya Cave Base

Guizhou outdoor adventurers' club Shiya cave base | Lightweight primitive cave exploration with all-in-one zip-lining and climbing experience The base is located in Anlong County, approx. 45 km (50 min to 1 hr drive) from Xingyi city, and is a lightly developed primitive natural cave. The cave spans approx. 1.5 km and features various fun challenges such as zip lines, traverses, climbs, and crawls, offering a diverse and engaging experience. The cave is well-developed with abundant sediments, and original views like stalactites and stalagmites are well-preserved. The temperature inside remains a constant 13-16°C year-round, providing warmth in winter and coolness in summer. Main highlights: Circular route: A seamless journey without backtracking. Thrilling challenges: Zip-line across cave halls, test your balance with lateral moves, climb through stone forests, and crawl close to the earth's core. Family-friendly: Children under 18 receive commemorative medals while learning about caves through interactive play. Time slot reference: 9:30 AM / 2:00 PM, approx. 3 hours in total. Suitable for: People aged 4-65 in good health who love outdoor activities. 🌄 Explore the primitive cave without turning back, and enjoy the thrill of zip-lining and climbing!

Guizhou Wuyu Xingchen Outdoor Sports Base

Guizhou Wuyu Xingchen outdoor sports base (Yancai cave) | Fantasy underground adventure, explore the subterranean starry river The base is located in the karst wonderland of Yancai cave, offering a 3-hour immersive underground journey that combines cave exploration, via ferrata, sky ladder challenges, rappelling, and underground river paddleboarding. The cave features rare fantastical starry light effects, creating an illusion of standing beneath the Milky Way. Core experience: Challenge the sky ladder, via ferrata, and rappelling to experience the thrill of vertical and horizontal crossings. Paddleboard through the underground river with professional photography to capture stunning shots (paddleboards are for photo opportunities only, subject to water levels and may require queuing during peak times). Professional guides provide full-course instruction and safety training, with complete sets of branded equipment, rain boots, and personal insurance provided. Schedule: Morning session gathers at 10:00 AM/enters the cave at 10:30 AM; afternoon session gathers at 1:30 PM/enters the cave at 2:00 PM. Fee: CNY 498 per person, including coach, equipment, insurance, video recording, and a complimentary outdoor scarf + protective gloves. 🌌 Embark on a magical journey deep into the underground galaxy and challenge yourself - waiting for you to unlock!

No. 3 of Family-friendly Attractions in Guizhou

Maling River Canyon

Maling River is located in Xingyi City, a strategic point for Yunnan, Guangxi and Guizhou. It is 334 kilometers northeast of Guiyang and 321 kilometers west of Kunming. It originates from Baiguoling in the Wumeng Mountains. The upper reaches are called Qingshui River, and the middle reaches are called Maling River because of Mabie Dazhai and Malingzhai on both sides. Maling River has a slightly sad title - "the beautiful scar on the earth", which vividly describes the magnificence and steepness of Maling River. Maling River is more than 70 kilometers long, cutting a narrow and deep ground canyon in the plain. This structure is extremely rare in the world and is known as "the first seam in the world". The majestic and beautiful Maliang River Canyon National Scenic Spot is known as the "River of Thousands of Waterfalls" and "The Crack in the Sky and Earth". In 1993, the Maliang River "Five Rings Rafting Company" was established, pioneering rafting in the southwest. In April 1998, the International Canoe Rafting Competition was successfully held, and it became the Guizhou Province Canoeing Training Base and the National Olympic Whitewater Sports Base.

Fangmaping Alpine Grassland

Fangmaping has 28,490 mu of alpine grassland, including 21,000 mu of natural grassland and 7,490 mu of natural forest. The grassland is located in the sloping zone where the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau transitions to the low mountains and hills of Guangxi, and has a unique landform. The beautiful mountains and waters here are gifts from nature. The green plains with endless vitality and life colors are inlaid with beautiful scenery everywhere, allowing people to appreciate the artistic conception of poetry and the splendor of paintings. The indescribable spiritual energy makes the mountains and rivers of Xingren beautiful and magical. In the alternation of seasons and the extension of time and space, it shows immortal interest and charm. People have mysterious stories passed down from generation to generation for this mysterious plateau. There is the ancient camp site of Manai Tun on Fangmaping, which is a key cultural relic protection unit in Guizhou Province. At the northern end of the grassland on the top of Fangmaping, there is a mountaintop flat land with an area of ​​more than 90 mu. Looking around, it looks like a dragon head slightly raised on Maping. The Ma Nai Barracks site is high and steep, surrounded by cliffs. In 1600, Long Jizhao, the chief of Ma Naiying, led his people to build stone walls and set up camps here, making it an anti-Qing base camp with excellent offensive and defensive capabilities and thousands of troops. Visitors strolling in the ruins of Ma Nai Barracks can see springs that never dry up, overgrown grass, piles of stones, and vaguely discernible roads, which give them a sense of desolation. It's as if they were walking into the tragic history of more than 300 years ago, full of blood, rain, and swords. What's amazing is that there is a natural lake on Fangmaping - Ximatang. Under the blue sky, the lake is dark blue, like a mirror inlaid on the grassland on the top of the mountain.

Buyi Ancient Village

Emerald Cave

Cave type: Blowing hole + solution pool + shaft (mixed type) ① Blue hole - A solution pool with considerable depth in terrestrial karst areas, or an underwater shaft in shallow coastal karst and lake bottoms, is called a blue hole. ② Blowing hole - A cave entrance exhibiting strong air movement phenomena caused by air pressure differences is called a blowing hole. Cave entrance features: Mid-mountain location, immature tiankeng (tiankeng diameter 40-50 m, depth 60 m) Cave formations: ① Shaft, a vertical well-like passage in the cave ceiling that does not reach the surface. ② Diving pool, a section of underground water passage where one end is submerged under the cave ceiling. Cave length: Approx. 1.2 km (currently 70% explored) Cave temperature: 16°C-22°C (warm in winter and cool in summer) Cave views: Well-preserved sedimentary formations including stalactites, stalagmites, coral-like formations, grape-like clusters, draperies, rimstone dams, and cave pearls. Cave organisms: Millipedes, centipedes, odorous frogs, freshwater crabs, pseudoscorpions, bats, cave crickets, amphipods, and more...

No. 5 of Fall Viewing Attractions in Guizhou

Wanfenglin Scenic Area

Wanfenglin Scenic Area is located in the southwest of Xingyi, Guizhou, in the heart of southwestern Guizhou on the southeastern edge of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. Its southern end borders Guangxi; to the west it reaches Sanjiangkou at the junction of Yunnan, Guangxi, and Guizhou; to the north it adjoins the main peak of Wumeng Mountain. The peaks rise to 1,600 m, with an average elevation of 1,200 m, and forest coverage of 68.5%. Covering a total area of more than 2,000 sq km, it is a typical area for the development of world-class cone karst peak-forest landforms. The attraction has a pleasant climate, with no severe cold in winter and no extreme heat in summer, and has been listed in the national summer resort city rankings. It is a place for health and leisure tourism in China. The attraction is dominated by cone-shaped peak forests and peak clusters developed in Triassic strata, interspersed with various geological heritage views such as karst caves, dolines, underground rivers, sinkholes, and sedimentary strata. The peak-cluster and peak-forest landscape views are wide in distribution, diverse in type, rich in form, and complete in development, and are extremely rare in China and even worldwide. They are a typical representative of the cone karst landscape views formed in the transitional slope zone from the western Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau to the Guangxi hills, and are known as the "Museum of Chinese Cone Karst." The types of landscape resources in the attraction are mainly natural views such as pastoral scenery and spectacular mountain peaks, supplemented by cultural views such as ethnic minority villages. In terms of natural resources, according to the shapes of the peak forest, it is divided into types such as karst isolated peaks, valley peak forests, karst cone peaks, and blade-shaped stone peaks, forming a majestic and vast karst view. It is a typical representative of cone karst landscape views and has significant value for geological research; in terms of cultural resources, the long history of the Bouyei ethnic group has accumulated rich ethnic culture. Its clothing, language, and living customs all embody a strong ethnic cultural flavor. The "Eight-Tone Sitting and Singing," which enjoys the reputation of "living fossil of sound" and "sound of nature," is a folk storytelling and singing art passed down from generation to generation by the Bouyei ethnic group and has been rated as a "National Intangible Cultural Heritage."

No. 4 of Family-friendly Attractions in Xingyi

Giant Mountain Sansheng Cave

The core wonder of the Sansheng Cave at Giant Mountain in Guizhou is a naturally formed 108-meter-high mountain with the profile of a giant, composed of Triassic limestone dating back 230 million years. Embedded in the rock crevices are fossils of deep-sea tubeworms forming what resemble "giant eyelashes." The cave unfolds a fantastical journey themed around "Three Lives": In the Realm of Life and Water, take a canoe through a 1.8-kilometer-long, deep blue river, where stalactite reflections resemble dancing apsaras from Dunhuang, schools of blind silver fish dart beneath the boat, and the rock walls emanate the fluorescence of millennia-old minerals; step into the Realm of Life and Light, a 30,000-square-meter domed hall where AI-powered light and shadow awaken with every step—stalactites bloom into holographic rhododendrons, a wave of the hand summons swarms of light-feathered insects from the apatite walls, and lasers project Cambrian ancient ocean constellations from the dome.