Stone Forest Overview

Listed as Ward Heritage Site by UNECO in 2007, the Stone Forest is located in the west of Yunnan Plato - Shilin Yi Autonomous County, and is 78km from Kunming. It is the only cart landform drama spot located in the substrographic platea area. Stone Forest has its long history, large scale and rich category due to the world's most unique cart landfarm. It is known as the first Wanderer under heaven and has gained a high reputation in geography circles in the world.

Nearly 27 million million years ago, the Stone Forest began to form, and geological evolution and complex pandialism and longevity of environmental evolution, valuable geological patterns were finally formed. The entire dramatic area is very large, about 1100 square kilometers, with different views: stone forest, cart cave, waterfall, underground river etc. Along with the scenery, Stone Forest also attracts many tourists for its featured e-ethnic culture, and is one of the most famous one of the untimely legends, which represents the Stone Forest image.
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Main attraction

Stone Forest can be divided into eight districts, and currently, tour zones are open in Stone Forest Scenic Area, Nigu Stone Forest Scenic Area, Feylong Waterfall Forestic Sanicic Area and Chang Lake Forest Dam. Among them, the Stone Forest scenic area is the main area of ​​the theatrical spot, and the most famous attractions are located here, including Major Stone Forest, Small Stone Forest, Bush ao Hill, Lizi Yuanqing, and Anant Mushroom

The main stone forest

The entire area is composed of solid stone rock. Here there are boulders on the smooth lines and stand and right and sudden, and their color is a kind of steel-gray. The maximum rock pill can reach 40 meters. Walking in the stone forest, you will face rock peaks every few steps and turn in another direction - welcome new scenes so without tour guide you will have a tour map while watching Major Stone Forest to avoid it not lost.

Small stone forest

Compared with dense main stone forest, tiny water sparser and more delicate. The broad and thick stone walls split the small stone forest into a few small gardens. The most famous attraction here is Ashisha Stone. According to the legend of Ashima (an official long poem that tells the story of the eighty-seven story), Ashima is a beautiful and courageous girl who continues to fight for power to achieve independence and eventually becomes a rock, and this stone is called Ashima Stone
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Bush oh hill

Bushao Hill is located on the east side of Major Stone Forest and located south of Minor Stone Forest, it is the highest part of the entire scenic area and the height above the mountain is 1796.7 meters. The attraction of Busho Hill is of marine fossils, like giant gastropod fossils and coral fossils, which recorded the rich sea world 27 million million years ago.

Liiji Yuanqing

Located outside the Li Yiunying Ring Road (the road built for storage cable car in the spectacular area). This area of ​​strange pillars and rocks, sparse or thicker coating, they all preserve their natural appearance. There is an ancient rock image on the southeast, stone wall of the 300m ring road, which draws pictures of people, animals, moons and stars. According to archaeologists, wall painting here is related to primitive religion. Perhaps this is the sound of the rest of us by the ancient Yi people

Infinite mushrooms

Anant Mashroom theatrical area adjacent to Li Yi Ying. On the rock hill, there is a 15 meter high rock peak, which is above the legs and big on the small, like a giant mushroom, the name is literally mushroom.
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Naigu Stone Forest

The Nugu Stone forest archaeological area is located 8 kilometers north of the Stone Forest archaeological area (five attractions above is the scenic area of ​​Stone Forest). In the Yi language, Naigu is ancient and black means the entire dramatic area covers an area of ​​10 sq km, and Eastern District, West District, Bain Lake, Bain Cave, ancient battlefield etc. are made. Standing on the highest peak and you will see a black rock sea, very pretty. To feel the feeling of the wild world, tourists can go into stone forests. Another highlight is the karst cave under the ground. Currently there are 9 cart cave. Nagu Stone Forest tickets are included in the entire Stone Forrest ticket ticket.
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How do I get there?

Kunming Stone Stone is 78 Kilometers. Travelers can take public coaches from Kunming to Stone Forest bus stations. It takes about 1.5 hours. From Kungming Changshui International Airport, travelers can take buses to travel there, and it takes about 2 hours. Shilin Yi Autonomous County has a train station, and it has trains to Kunming, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Nanning, Zhanjiang, Guiyang, Hongguo, etc. Shilin train station is just 4km from Stone Forest, so passengers can easily get to the place.

Another way to get Stone Forest is to take a personal car, and it is the fastest and most convenient way. It only takes about 1 hour. If you book a tour with us, we will make you private-care-free with a private driver and a tour guide, to make you worry-free.

Transportation in the Park

Tourists will purchase a VIP center ticket, which is 2 kilometers from the entrance of the spectacular area. Travelers can use the cable car from the Visitor Center to the entrance and the price ¥ 25 / person. The cable car will be operated with a beautiful view (even visible area from a very large area), and it has five interesting attractions in the Stone Forest gravity area, as well as Major Stone Forest, Minor Stone Forest, Busho Hill, Leiji Yuanking and Intimate Mosquito. Once the cable car is purchased by the ticket, on the same day, the passengers can carry a cable car to the tourist site by showing the ticket.

Nagu Stone Forest Forest Forest can travel 8 kilometers from the visible area, and travel to the travel buses in the two traveled areas. Running time for traveling bus is 9:00 to 19:00 and it will depart every half-hour. Contact staff working for a detailed location of the bus.
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Useful Travel Tips

1. The torch festival

On June 24, in China's moon calendar, e-people's traditional torch festival. At this time, the Stone Forest will be held on grand bullfight, wrestling and dance programs to celebrate and celebrate. E people will dress in their traditional costumes to expect to celebrate. In the dark of the night, the furnace and torch will be bright, and people will dance and tear their necks. This Yi community is the best time to experience ethnic culture.

2. Best season

The best time to visit is from March to October. Most racial festivals are at this time, and tourists can appreciate different flowers at this time. The Stone Forest subtropic army flood is located in the monsoon climate region and is characteristic of the continental monsoon climate. In any hot summer or severe cold winter, the climate is centered round all year here.

3. Tickets

Entry Tickets for Stone Forest ¥ 175 / person Tickets for cable cars in spectacular areas ¥ 25 / person Dancing shows in the spectacular areas are free.

4. Convenience

In front of spectacular areas, there are parking lots and China Post Offices.
Visitor Center can provide wheelchairs, baby cars, umbrellas, walking stick, etc. for viewers.
Visitor Center for Tourists offers tour guide service in Chinese, English, Japanese, Thai and charges the specified service fee, check with Visitor Center staff for detailed pricing.
According to the infrastructural map behind the entrance ticket, tourists can find the location of the toilets in the spectacular areas.

5. Accommodation

Travelers can stay in Shilin County overnight, and the county also has a 3-star hotel. However, most travelers will go back to Kunming for the accommodation. Kunming is more preferred for travelers and it is more convenient to move to your next destination than Kunming.
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