One of the "Forty Best Tourist Attractions in China", the Yaolin Fairyland is located with in the territory of Tonglu County with picturesque scenery. In the period of Qianlong's reign of the Qing Dynasty, the Tonglu County Annals wrote that "In the Yaolin Cave, there are cliffs, pools, ponds and holes; the walls are as colorful as rainbows in the sky; the spring gurgles with a sound like that of golden drums accompanied by bamboo flutes and xylophones. One would be amazed to hear sounds like that of humans and dogs, an evidence that the place is for supernatural beings to travel and get together".
The Yaolin Fairy land is a limestone solution cave. With numerous beautiful rocks and stones in it, the inside of the cave is full of wonderful shapes and magnificent spectacles, some of them are grand while some others quaint, dazzling and mysterious.
There are 7 cave halls in the Yaolin Fairyland, connected with each other, with spacious rooms covering a total area of 28,000 sq. meters and a tourist route of one kilometer. The representative landscapes include the Milky Way Waterfall, Ornamental Pillar in Yingzhou, Jade Column Supporting the Sky, Yaolin Jade Peak, all of them are solution-cave treasures rare in the world.

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