I had been to the Stone Forest before, but this time around because we had the time to really explore the place, I actually got to see much more. We ventured outside the ring road surrounding the Big Stone Forest area, inside the area called Liziyuan, where there was a cliff with ancient rock paintings. To get to the rock paintings, we walked through very narrow passageways, some only wide enough for a very skinny person, or one has to walk sideways. Some of the walkways are at the bottom of very tall stone pillars, so it felt like walking in an underground cave. Like the old saying, the journey is more than half the fun! Then we walked through this rock mushroom field, where there were farmers tending to their crop, vegetable fields and orchards.
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