Elephant Trunk Hill
The entrance to Guilin Elephant Trunk Hill is located next to 181 Military Hospital on the crossing of Binjiang Road and Wenmin Road. On the waterside its location is at the confluence of the Li River and Peach Blossom River.
Called Xi¨¤ngb¨ª Sh¨¡n ( Ïó±Çɽ) in Chinese it is one of the main tourist attraction of the city. Its name derives from the circular cave (Water Moon Cave) going through the front of the mountain, making the Karst structure look like an elephant holding its trunk into the water.
Water Moon Cave
The cave itself is about 17 meters long, 12 meters high and 9.5 meters wide. In and out of the Water Moon Cave(Shuiyue dong) are many carvings and inscriptions on the walls. The most well known was made during the Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279) by a poet called Lu You (1125-1210)
Elephant Eye Cave
The name of this cave derives from two entrances which are located at what would be the Elephants Eye in the mountain. It is about 2 meter high with a width between 5-10 meters and spans the whole mountain (ca. 50m).
To get to the cave you have to take the stairs from the south-side of the mountain. From there it is also possible to continue the ascent to the top of the mountain where the Puxian Pagoda is located.
Puxian Pagoda
The Puxian Pagoda on top of Elephant Trunk Hill was erected during the Ming Dynasty. It measures 14 meter in height and is shaped to represent the handle of a sword sticking out of the back of the Elephant after it has been killed. The Pagoda has two storeys, the second one with an inlay of the image of Bodhisattva Puxian (after which it is named).
The Sanhua Museum is not really a museum but rather a wine-shop with attached information booth. You can only enter it from the park-side so while you're in take the chance and have a look.
In the museum are several show-cases displaying the history of Guilin Sanhua wine and how it is produced. In the shop itself it is possible to try the different spirit. Don't be put of by the dead lamb (or is it a deer) swimming in the huge pot of medical wine...