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Fubo Hill
The
beautiful Fubo Hill, in the northeast of the city, is
well known as the "Wonderland on Wave"
with its exquisite peak rising high and its foot half
in water and half on land.
The east of the cave curbs the river stream,
causing the formation of a deep pool, so the hill is
named Fubo Hill (Wave-Curbing Hill).
At the southern foot of the hill is a garden
full of bamboos, palm trees and flowers, a quite and
interesting place.
There is a stone path on the southern side
of the hill. Half way up the hill is a Sight-Seeing
Terrace from which you can see the Old Man Hill northwest
to it, resembling an old man in the hood looking up
to the south. It is so life-like that you can even distinguish
his brow and beard. The way from the Sight-Seeing Terrace
to the summit of the hill can be compared with the way
to the West Peak in the Hua Mountain. It is narrow and
steep. Only the brave ones dare to scale the heights
and find the climbing interesting.
At the foot of the hill is the famous Pearl-Returning
Cave, which is composed of many side-caves, linked like
a labyrinth. A several-meter stalactite column, thick
on top and tapering downwards, hangs all the way from
the ceiling the ground. It is so strange that no visitors
will see it without amazement. Since the space between
the column and the ground seems to be the result of
a sword cut it is named Sword Testing Stone.
The step beside the Sword Testing Stone
wind their way up to the Thousand Buddha Cave, in which
are more than 200 Buddha statues made in the Tang Dynasty.
Fubo Hill also famous for its stone
inscriptions.
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