Comments on: Beautiful View of Limestone Karsts in Yangshuo, China http://travel-photos.curiouscatblog.net/2015/10/02/beautiful-view-of-limestone-karsts-in-yangshuo-china/ Tue, 11 Oct 2016 20:20:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.5 By: Noise – Reporting on the Noise Level of Lodging Options | Freelance Lifestyle, Finance and Entrepreneurship Blog http://travel-photos.curiouscatblog.net/2015/10/02/beautiful-view-of-limestone-karsts-in-yangshuo-china/comment-page-1/#comment-41768 Mon, 23 May 2016 15:20:12 +0000 http://travel-photos.curiouscatblog.net/?p=733#comment-41768 […] View from my homestay room in Yangshuo, China. […]

]]> By: John Hunter http://travel-photos.curiouscatblog.net/2015/10/02/beautiful-view-of-limestone-karsts-in-yangshuo-china/comment-page-1/#comment-39559 Wed, 28 Oct 2015 13:41:30 +0000 http://travel-photos.curiouscatblog.net/?p=733#comment-39559 My preference for caves is for those setup for tourists as the USA National Park system does. Nice paths and handles and a bit of lighting but mainly you get to see nature. I have taken numerous ranger led hikes in this way, for example Timpanogos Cave National Monument in Utah and the Wind and Jewel caves in South Dakota.

I love hiking outdoors. But hiking through narrow passages with very low ceilings or through water in caves doesn’t appeal to me.

In the Da Nang, Vietnam area the Marble Mountain karst is almost along (there are not a huge number of karsts so I can image it isn’t known for them).

]]> By: Michel Baudin http://travel-photos.curiouscatblog.net/2015/10/02/beautiful-view-of-limestone-karsts-in-yangshuo-china/comment-page-1/#comment-39556 Wed, 28 Oct 2015 12:38:33 +0000 http://travel-photos.curiouscatblog.net/?p=733#comment-39556 According to my spelunking friend, this kind of formation is called “tower karsts,” which sounds descriptive. China is known for them, but they are found also in Vietnam, the best known being Halong Bay.

]]> By: Michel Baudin http://travel-photos.curiouscatblog.net/2015/10/02/beautiful-view-of-limestone-karsts-in-yangshuo-china/comment-page-1/#comment-39537 Tue, 27 Oct 2015 16:23:41 +0000 http://travel-photos.curiouscatblog.net/?p=733#comment-39537 It is better to visit caves that haven’t been set up for tourists, but you need to be an experienced spelunker, unafraid of dangling on a thin rope in a dark pit, or of crawling in narrow galleries. I dabbled in that 40 years ago in France, with a friend who still does it, and specializes in exploring caves no one has visited before. He does it mostly in Mexico these days, and never mentioned China. I will ask him about Yangshao.

]]> By: John Hunter http://travel-photos.curiouscatblog.net/2015/10/02/beautiful-view-of-limestone-karsts-in-yangshuo-china/comment-page-1/#comment-39529 Tue, 27 Oct 2015 12:32:57 +0000 http://travel-photos.curiouscatblog.net/?p=733#comment-39529 I had to look up a name to learn it was karst, I figured in the headline if I just said karst many people wouldn’t know what it was while with “limestone karst” more would then figure out the basic idea.

I only went to one cave there – it was hideous: fluorescent colored light displays everywhere. I’ll post some pictures at some point.

Marble Mountain (which is also largely limestone – even with that name and described as a karst) had some cool caves and one very impressive one, seen in this photo (in Da nang, Vietnam).

]]> By: Michel Baudin http://travel-photos.curiouscatblog.net/2015/10/02/beautiful-view-of-limestone-karsts-in-yangshuo-china/comment-page-1/#comment-39528 Tue, 27 Oct 2015 12:21:01 +0000 http://travel-photos.curiouscatblog.net/?p=733#comment-39528 Great picture. The way rows of mountains fade in the mist in Chinese landscape art is not a convention. They do in real life.

By the way, a karst is always limestone, by definition, and has numerous caves. Did you explore any?

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