Assembling Dragon Cave

This guide to Assembling Dragon Cave near Yangshuo traces how the peaks and passages of this valley earned their dragon name, from storytellers who saw the surrounding hills coiling into the earth to the writhing limestone pillars that carried the shape underground. It follows the cave's two halves, a dry stretch of fancifully named stalactites called Black Cave, and a flooded Water Cave reached only by boat past a hidden underground river. Feel the cool, damp air change as you cross from stone floor to still water.