~Incredible: Shilin Stone Forest ~

An old local saying says, “If you have visited Kunming without seeing the StoneForest, you have wasted your time.” The Shilin Stone Forest covers 96,000 acres with large and small stands of stone “trees.” They actually are karst formations that stand on the earth like stalagmites and looking like petrified trees. Believed to be more than 270 million years old, the stone trees emergedas limestone eroded.