How to get to Elephant Trunk Mountain

Elephant Trunk Mountain Transportation Guide: City Transportation: You can choose to take free public welfare vehicles (No. 57, 58), buses (No. 2, 23), scenic shuttle buses or drive directly to the scenic spot.

Internal transportation: 1. You can take a boat trip at night to explore the scenery of the Three Mountains; 2. Self-guided tour by car or on foot: free tour along Binjiang Road and Longzhu Road along the Li River.

Elephant Trunk Mountain is located at the confluence of the Taohua River and the Li River in the city. The natural landscape and cultural landscape in the park complement each other and are known as the symbol of Guilin's landscape. The natural landscape and cultural landscape in the park complement each other. The main attractions include Shuiyue Cave, Elephant Eye Rock, Puxian Pagoda, Hongfeng Temple and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Revolutionary Relics Exhibition Hall in the temple.

There is also the only remaining stupa of Kaiyuan Temple in Sui and Tang Dynasties nearby. Shuiyue Cave is close to the river, with the Li water flowing through it, like the moon floating in the water, and the rocks hanging down into the water, like the trunk of an elephant drinking from the Li River. The scenery is excellent, and it has been a tourist attraction since the Tang and Song Dynasties. The poem "He Shuiyue Cave Rhyme" by Jibei Chushi in the Song Dynasty: There is a bright moon at the bottom of the water, and a bright moon floating on the water. The water will not go away for a month, but the water will still flow after the month goes by. This scene is vividly depicted.

Shuiyue Cave is between the trunk and legs of the Elephant Trunk Mountain. About 12,000 years ago, the earth's crust rose and the Lijiang River shrank, accelerating the development of Shuiyue Cave and forming a round hole with east-west transparency. It is 17 meters long, 9.5 wide, 12 meters high, and covers an area of ??about 150 square meters. "Records of Xiangshan" records that there is a stone cave, which looks toward each other and is round and long in shape. It is half submerged in the Li water. The water is sometimes high and sometimes low, so the cave also varies in size.

The entrance of Shuiyue Cave faces the sun, also known as Chaoyang Cave. But the cave is on the water, like a bright moon floating on water, which is very vivid, so the name of Shuiyue has been used to this day. The Elephant Mountain, Water and Moon are one of the wonders of Guilin's landscape, and all literati and scholars are amazed by it. The poem "Shuiyue Cave" by Jibei Chushi in the Song Dynasty has a bright moon at the bottom of the water and a bright moon floating on the water. The phrase "the water flows even if the moon does not go away, but the water continues to flow after the moon goes away" details the miracle of the moon in the sky, in the cave, and under the water reflecting each other. The water moon on Xiangshan Mountain is opposite to the moon rock across the mountain looking to the south. One is hanging in the sky and the other is floating on the water, forming a unique landscape of double moons on the Li River.

In the Song Dynasty, Chaoyang Pavilion was built in the cave. In the Qing Dynasty, it was renamed Deyue Tower and has since been abandoned. There are more than 50 cliff stone carvings in the cave, including Zhang Xiaoxiang's "Chaoyang Pavilion Poems and Preface", Fan Chengda's "Fu Shuiyue Cave Inscription", and Lu You's poetry manuscripts and manuscripts.

Chaoyang Pavilion is located in Shuiyue Cave in Xiangbi Mountain. It was built in the Song Dynasty. The pavilion has long been abandoned. However, more than 800 years ago, around the naming of Shuiyue Cave, two successive local governors of Guizhou A back-to-back textual lawsuit unfolded between them has become an eternal topic among people who visit here. It turns out that in the second year of Qiandao in the Southern Song Dynasty (AD 1166), Zhang Xiaoxiang visited Shuiyue Cave and stayed until late. He visited again soon and happily wrote a poem and preface. Since the entrance of the cave faces east, he listed the names of the pavilion, cave and rock. For Chaoyang, the "Poetry Preface to Chaoyang Pavilion" describing the event should be placed on the north wall of Shuiyue Cave. Later, Fan Cheng, Grand Master Gui, held different opinions and restored the original name. He wrote the "Fu Shui Yue Cave Inscription" and engraved it on the south wall of the cave.

Elephant Trunk Rock is adjacent to Shuiyue Cave and is named after the elephant trunk in Elephant Trunk Mountain. The rock is 1.9 meters high, 3.3 meters wide, about 13.5 meters long, and covers an area of ??44.5 square meters. Yankou faces the river, faces east, and is closed in a strip shape. It is a cool place with a good view of the river. Mao Binquan, a scholar of the Ming Dynasty, once read "The Book of Changes" here. Later generations carved the word "Reading Rock" at the mouth of the rock, and called the rock "Dianyi Mountain Window". In the middle of the first spring month of Wanli Ding Chou (1577), some renovations were carried out. Someone from Binquan Mountain dug a deep hole into the cave and inscribed his name on the stone. Ming Dynasty poet Zhang Xiang's poem "Visiting Maobin Spring and Pointing at Yishan Window" contains thousands of hectares of water and light in the culvert cave, and the mountain window silently observes Zhou Yi's poem. For details, see the stone carvings on the cliff of Shuiyue Cave.

Elephant Eye Rock is located on the north and south sides of the mountainside of Elephant Trunk Mountain and is connected to each other. It is about 2 meters high, 5 to 10 meters wide and 52.8 meters long. It is oblong in shape and covers an area of ??about 274 square meters. Elephant Eye Rock was originally a short ancient underground river channel, which was formed earlier than Shuiyue Cave. It was named because it happened to be located at Elephant Eye. From the entrance of the Antarctic Cave at the southern foot of Xiangshan Mountain, you can climb to the South Eye along the stone steps. After leaving Elephant Eye Rock, the winding road can reach the top of the mountain. The northern eye is steep and steep, with no obstacles to reach. The north and south caves of Elephant Eye Rock are a pair of wonderful windows overlooking the scenery.

Looking from the left eye, the towering Lijiang Hotel is very close at hand, the urban buildings and markets are lined up in rows, and half of the city's mountain bar is clearly visible; looking from the right eye, the shadow of the river's sails flickers between Zizhou, Tashan, and Chuanshan.

Yunyaxuan is a garden architecture of the Song Dynasty. Zhang Mingfeng's "Gui Gu" of the Ming Dynasty records: Therefore, in the Song Dynasty, Ti Xingfang Gongxin Ru built a jingshe under the south wall to live in, which was called Yunyaxuan. Xuan has been abandoned for a long time. According to Fang Xiru's "Inscription on Yunya Pavilion" and Shao Yiren's account of building the ancient Yunya Pavilion before Fang Suo wrote the poem. It is unclear when Yunyaxuan was built. In Fang Xinru's poem, there is no need to explore the feeble stick and quinoa, but the forest ravine is holding the city's ridge. On the Qianyan Rock in Yue Cave, Zeng Zun wrote a strange sentence from Yunya, saying that it is credible that Yunya Pavilion was built at the foot of Xiangshan Mountain.