Yinhu Cave
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Yinhu Cave (Silver Fox Cave) lies in Xiayingshui Village Fozizhuang Township in Fangshan District; it is 70 kilometers from Beijing city proper and is one of the main scenic spot of the water-eroded caves found in west Beijing. Since there is a fox-shaped snow-white calcite crystal which is very rare and precious, therefore, the cave got the name Yinhu (Silver Fox).
The cave is believed to be about 6,000 meters long and is the largest of its kind in North China. Only half has been explored and opened to tourists. The cave is like a maze with the main cave, branch cave, water cave and dry cave interveined vertically and horizontally. Besides the common sights in a water-eroded cave like stone shield, stone flag, stone pearl and some others, one could also found several dozens of underground rare sights as the bashful jade rabbit, crystal jade bamboo, Great Wall balefire, sitting image of the giant, etc. But the most superb and appealing one is the two-meter long silver fox with cats head and foxs body. With its vivid and lifelike shape, it can be viewed as the national treasure of China. The underground river is 1500 meters long in the cave and the boat can float in it and there are various microelements as strontium, lithium, zinc, manganese, iron, fluorine, vanadium, boron and magnesium in the clear water, which have wonderful treatment effectiveness and very good to human body. Yinhu Cave could not only offer beautiful natural views to visitors but also has great value on the research of hydrology and geology.
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