象鼻山导游词

Tour Guide Presentation for Scenic Spots

Hello everyone! Welcome to Guilin. I am a trainee guide from Changsha University of Science and Technology; you can call me "Carrie”. In this trip, I will lead you to enjoy the beautiful scenery of Guilin. I hope everyone have a great in Guilin. In addition, everyone needs to take care of personal safety and property security. We will take boat to the Elephant Trunk Hill.

The Elephant Trunk Hill is also called Yi Hill, Chenshui Hill, located in GuiLin city, GuangXi province. The reason for this name is because it looks like a giant elephant drinking water with its trunk on the Li River bank. The Elephant Trunk Hill juts out into the Li River where it joins the Peach Blossom River .It’ s a very realistic image for the city of GuiLin emblem, is the most classic tourism scenic spots. Many poets wrote hymns to this mountain and Chinese and foreign tourists will be here to visit.

Please look there. There is a big cave between the nose and the body called Water Moon Cave, also called Chaoyang Cave. Many poets visited here and wrote some famous poems. For example, A famous poet said it “its form is round ,look at the end of the whole such as round.”(其形正圆，望之端整如月轮)。River flowed through the hole river, rafting in the bright moon night, and it is a reflection of the “underwater have the moon that float on water.”(水底有明月，水上明月浮). The poem is very vivid, every year spring, so many tourists come here and enjoy themselves.

In the cave, some famous Song dynasty patriotic poets write poetry to praise the hole ,such as ZhangXiaoXiang(张孝祥)，FanChengDa and LuYou, . Although LuYou have never been to guilin, he was attracted to the marvelous mountain and the graceful water.

There has the path to the top of the mountain. The top of the mountain is flattened and green. In the top of the mountain, there is a13.2 m high tower called Sputa was built in the Tang Dynasty, rebuilt in the Ming Dynasty. The Elephant Trunk Hill have the reconstruction in recent years and the yunfeng temple(云峰寺)

established in Tang dynasty. The temple displays of the history of cultural relics of the Taiping heavenly kingdom.

Please look here, this is a beautiful scenic spot called the Eyes of Rock. Because it site in the rock, so be named the Eye of Rock. This scenic spot in the Elephant Trunk Hill mountainside north and south sides, about 2 meters high, 5 to 10 meters wide, 52.8 meters long, the area of approximately 274 square meters. The Eyes of the rock was originated in a long ancient underground river, it formed earlier than the Water Moon Cave.The three flowers Xiangshan cellar located in Guilin's famous 4A level scenic spot - the cavern of the Xiangshan Park, Xiangshan cellar year round maintained at 20 degrees Celsius and humidity suitable, Guilin Sanhuajiu stored here pleasant, mellow winetop grade. In addition, the unique heritage the Xiangshan cellar Xiangshan workshop Guilin Sanhuajiu of Heritage Museum Trinity, is a non-material cultural heritage in Guangxi - Guilin Sanhuajiu of traditional brewing skills, but also the Guilin industrial tourism demonstration sites

Near Elephant Trunk Hill, there are other famous attractions, such as Chaoyang pavilion and the Elephant Trunk Hill Cellar, we will go there tomorrow.

The Elephant Trunk Hill is a beautiful landscape, is the symbol of guilin city and the sign, is the love of the Chinese and foreign visitors. Wish you have a pleasant time in The Elephant Trunk Hill.

Thank you!