Wannian Ice Cave

The Wannian Ice Cave lies in the Luya Mountain scenic area at Dongzhai town, in Ningwu County, Xinzhou. Luya is a spur of the Lüliang range standing thirty kilometres south-west of the county seat, with its main peak at 2,739 metres, and both the Fen and the Sanggan have their sources on these slopes. The scenic area is centred on the Taizi Hall peak and covers about 321 square kilometres; the ice cave is one of its sites. The cave is described as a large ice cave of a kind rarely found outside the permafrost belt, and its formation is placed in the glacial period of the Quaternary, the Cenozoic ice ages, about three million years ago.