Exploring a Mysterious Buddhist Cave in the Mountains of Dali, Yunnan

[@Mr-Ejaz]

Wonderful

[@Brisamars-q1c]

Always wanted to visit Dali and see the old timber architecture.

[@LDRTravels]

The remoteness and difficulty to reach the pagoda and cave makes this journey seem even more magical and worthwhile than the destination itself. Like searching for a treasure that has been lost even to the locals. Thankyou for your hard work!

[@Honglintravel]

It really is!

[@tomtrinh9153]

❤ you are so brave and I always support you and watch all your videos 😅. I hope you will make more videos soon, thank you

[@Honglintravel]

Thank you, I will

[@trekpac2]

I was so, so thankful to be able to accompany you on this journey. It touched me deeply as a person who has lived in Asia for 8 years and has studied about Japan, Korea and China for many more.

[@nivzfrabx3718]

Your videos are a piece of art, thank you so much!

[@Honglintravel]

My pleasure!

[@WE_Adventures]

great!

[@markojovanovic8444]

Outstanding work, both physically and artistically! Thank you for showing us pieces if history that are slowly being swept by time 🙏 Please take care on your travels, God bless. 😊

[@quattrospezie7505]

What a precious work you are doing!

[@Honglintravel]

Thank you!

[@aubreyadams7884]

Another totally amazing video, Honglin! Your courage and determination, and the work you put into your videos (such as the passing shots where you leave the camera and walk on - people don't realise is that you have to return and get the camera, and then re-walk that part again!) all create wonderful footage. And your soft, sensitive narration gives us a truly beautiful viewing experience. 谢谢

[@Honglintravel]

谢谢

[@dunzhen]

sweet video, sis

[@sharmilashivani6096]

You are a brave women

[@Zetpu839]

New subscriber ! Love from North-easth India

[@maryjones5710]

Wonderful cave. it may be quite propitious that it rained and cleaned the air, etc.

[@leradicideglialberi]

WOW!

[@RajeshTamil2022]

Wonderful 👍🏽🪷

[@gilberttello08]

👍👍

[@russellatwell784]

I look forward to everyone of your videos the places you go and your explanations are great l would love to travel to China to see the places you show us but have always thought it would be too hard due to the language difference. Have you ever thought of running tours around China ?

[@Honglintravel]

That sounds great, but I haven't visited many places in China myself. Ninety percent of the places I've been to outside my home are the ones I've posted in the videos. How about I take you guys with me on a tour around the country, before I got qualified enough doing something more. Like this idea btw.

[@vongchantha-i7i]

Buddhist ❤🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏

[@gyadre]

Looks like this place is not frequented by tourists or faithful.

[@19665061]

Hongling did you find answer to the paradox of compassionate Buddhism compatible with animal killing and meat eating at mass scale?

[@dr.misbahharoonkhan6881]

I studied in Dali 5 years, I also don't know about this place.

[@Oh-So-Orange]

tôi không hiểu một phụ nữ lại dám một mình đến những nơi hiểm trơ hoang vắng như vậy

[@mechannel7046]

There is a spelling and English usage error in your video title. Mysteries should in fact be mysterious. Otherwise nice video

[@Honglintravel]

Thank you for pointing that out! I appreciate your help to correct the error. I'm glad you enjoyed the content otherwise!

[@pslaw]

What an adventurous explorer you are! Great respect for your courage and persistent in pursuing your mission of 'capturing the little known places before it's too late'. The places you visited not only race against 'the clouds' above, but also against time and forces of nature. The buddha statues and stone carvings will eventually fade away, and so will people memories of them. Thanks to you, we get to see them before 'it's too late' 👍

[@Honglintravel]

Thank you!

[@KitoTodd]

Wonderful place 💚 please be very careful on those dangerous paths 👍

[@Honglintravel]

Thank you for the reminder! Safety first always

[@ExpatNatt]

Beautiful video as always ❤❤

[@Honglintravel]

Thank you!! 😊

[@MKVideoSinzig]

A wonderful Video, Honglin! You know well how to make awesome VLogs. They have a very personal touch. Waiting for your next episode ...

[@Honglintravel]

Thank you so much !

[@hazelb.6336]

Thank you for showing uns an other non-tourist desination, we otherwise would never be able to see. But to climed down the rocks to the caves was really brave.

[@Honglintravel]

the experience was worth it! 🙏

[@soegengsoejanto2996]

Here it comes to be true 'No Pain No Gain'. Hat off to you young lady. May God bless you and keep you healthy 🙏🇮🇩

[@Honglintravel]

Thanks Soegeng!

[@thomascoleman7396]

Another great video! I am enthralled by Chinese Buddhism. Was the music Bai Gugin music?

[@Honglintravel]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the video. The music wasn't Bai Guqin

[@Honglintravel]

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the video. The music wasn't Bai Guqin

[@areebachewa8318]

@@Honglintravel Thank you for your video and I hope you do mind me asking you to have some of your amazing chinese instruments as your background music ...

[@Honglintravel]

'Ta´ amul By Feras Charestan' hope this can help

[@maryjones5710]

@@Honglintravel A very beautiful piece of music.

[@19665061]

6:14 - 6:40 --Man not looking into her eyes. ❤ Truly gentleman. Truly Chinese. Truly Homo Sapien. Human!

[@D_R_Martin]

Very interesting as usual. Thanks for taking us along on your journey.

[@tkabuzz9454]

l love you

[@19665061]

Li your face has natural cosmic aura of a Queen's face. 😊

[@MarieSondraMaribelle]

Ein sehr beeindruckender Reisebericht, der Dir da gelungen ist. Erstaunlich, daß dieser Ort bei den Einheimischen fast in Vergessenheit geraten ist. Der Ort ist es wert, bewahrt zu bleiben. Vielen Dank ❤❤❤❤❤

[@Honglintravel]

Vielen Dank für deine netten Worte! Es ist in der Tat erstaunlich, wie leicht solch ein wunderschöner Ort in Vergessenheit geraten kann. Ich schätze deine Unterstützung sehr!🙏😊

[@MarieSondraMaribelle]

@@Honglintravel Sehr gerne, ich freue mich, über jeden Deiner Reiseberichte. Du hast Talent dafür und Bilder, Deine Komnentare und Musik passen perfekt zusammen. Ich liebe Deine Videos und freue mich schon auf das Nächste. Dabei weiß ich, daß das alles sehr zeitaufwendig ist, viel Planung, Realisation und Nachbereitung bedarf. Umso mehr respektiere ich Deine hervorragende Arbeit. Herzliche Grüße aus dem Land der Tugend - Deutschland 🙂 ❤❤❤❤❤

[@muusmushroom141]

You are growing so much, i mean the videos you create are just getting better and better.. the capturing of the nature sounds with your voice are especially on point this time again! Me and my girlfriend love to watch your videos, always so mystical. :) Keep on doing YOU! The kind of documentary you create every time around those special places is amazing!

[@Honglintravel]

So nice of you

[@cheahd]

Thanks for your dedication in bringing these videos to us, your narrative is excellent and I look forward to your videos, my grandparents, who have passed on many years ago are Hakkas from the Quandong area

[@handaxia1251]

Nowadays, they call it Guangdong, even though Quandong sounds way better. Do you still speak your Hakka dialect? Fon Nyiang Qi ga Hakka ngin! 🤪

[@cheahd]

@@handaxia1251 ny hei Hakka ngin mm sit Kok Hakka fa

[@bobbydewan1639]

WOW!!! You are a brave lady who is keen to know about Buddhism. Being a Buddhist I feel proud of you. I hope someday I will go to Dali to explore this Buddha land. Sending love and hugs from India 🇮🇳 ❤🤗

[@katherinehajdu1838]

Thank you for sharing this very beautiful experience! 🥰 Greetings from Brazil!

[@Honglintravel]

Thank you!

[@马之舟]

被遗忘的历史再次展露在世人面前，虽一撇，但不易。

[@Honglintravel]

亲眼看到的时候，确实很震撼

[@pgalaxy]

You are obviously even craezier than I am. There are some places we have to get to, somewhere we have to go. Thanks a lot for taking us there. Awesome video. Thank you

[@denisshea6494]

Another perfectly excellent video .Good job !!!!! I am a true & loyal supporter .Thank yoi .

[@Honglintravel]

Thanks again!

[@woojongson5431]

Wow! What a great and surprising journey! RESPECT.

[@Kiyoone]

your videos are awesomely well edited. Does all the correct things and great things about travel documenting! thanks

[@SpeakingTheTruth888]

Difficult climb to reach the Buddhist cave. How old are you? 😅 Thanks for sharing. 👍🏻🥰

[@alexthomas1393]

Really well done. Thx. The cinematic quality was good, scenes not too long and not too too short, just right. Well chosen music. :)

[@WisdomofMindBody]

Mystery cave indeed. Even the locals didn't know about it. You are so brave to go there by yourself

[@yeska62]

Yunnan is a magical place. It never disappoints with the different minorities, and cultures. Plus the food is amazing. ❤❤❤

[@ogathingo8885]

Greetings from India and thank you for this very interesting video on Yunnan, especially on Buddhism. This place will be my next destination,so would you pls get information on accommodation and can I survive without speaking Chinese?

[@lcthen1690]

What an effort of no fear, tenacity, trust and I think the buddhas must be guiding you there to show the world. The music is so perfect to compliment the discovery.

[@x7j4]

Unfortunately, I was unable to watch this video because the background music is so loud that it drowns out your voice. 😢

[@brucewynn5595]

you are one crazy girl, has no fear climling those dangerous cliffs in the rainy weather. you might have lost your life. don't do that again.

[@ritaranee4787]

Sad that in India it's not safe for solo travels for women especially in the north

[@JuvenalDiez]

You are very brave to enter that ancient cave alone, I love China, its culture and its beautiful women

[@arvindkatiyar526]

What is the real name of Lord Gautham Buddha

[@fuzzstation]

爱佛陀❤🙏

[@shang_chi8626]

Buddha the enlightened one ☝️

[@wanderwithrm]

woah the scenes from the caves 😮

[@JuvenalDiez]

Blessing from Chile ❤

[@tantrichill192]

Sadhu sadhu sadhu

[@echozhao3124]

you are such a brave women❤

[@wangchukster]

great views,,,,,,

[@kazuwilliams5222]

would be fun to go back in time and see the cave

[@yunanyunan6597]

🤔🤔🤔

[@stanbimi]

(13:18) No mention about the words on this stone marking installed after 1985 by the local government. It shows that these caves are neither hidden nor mysterious. The remote caves are difficult to reach and have little tourism value, thus few locals visited them. Such caves in the Guizhou, Guangxi, Yunnan and Chongqing are very common feature of Karst formation.

[@Honglintravel]

Hi there, thanks for your information and I totally do not agree with you. Long before the local government set a stone marking there in 1985, 徐霞客 had already been there and left his travelogue book, written in the 17th century, the stone marking you mentioned I covered 95% of the information inside the content of this video. Neither 徐霞客 nor the Dali local government pointed out 1.when the stone carving of this cave was built and 2.who built them, what's even more, we don't know the 3. religious information about this cave(Azhaliism or Mahayana), based on all these three points I called this Buddhist Cave 'Mysterious', at least the authority mentioned not having sufficient enough information claimed to be crystal clear. Karst caves are very common in southwestern China, however, the Buddhist stone carving inside is based on the natural shape of the stone so elegant like this is common? Once documented by 徐霞客 and still remains unknown is common? I don't think so. I wished people focused more on the vanishing things itself like the mysterious Buddhist cave hidden in the mountains like this one, instead of any kind of 'tourism value'.

[@stanbimi]

@@Honglintravel No need to be so self defensive. Long before 徐霞客 wrote about the cave in the 17th century, local kids surely visited the caves. Religions don't make these caves any more special or mysterious.

[@maryjones5710]

@@stanbimi The energy, intention and seeking the best way to live, is a powerful force and I for one always feel a profound connection to the unknown people from the past. For me, it gives life a depth, richness and continuity to life to ponder past peoples way of expression. This cave was chosen from among many, so was singled out and I can tell you Feng Shui, or Ley line, Telluric currents, the reading of earth energies from rivers, winds, sun direction, all these things are used for 'sacred' sites, always.

[@stanbimi]

@@maryjones5710 These are all mental projection, fantasies. Pick up any piece of pebble on the beach and it might have existed for millions of years. Sure you can tell its story, like being walked on by dinosaurs.

[@pillowzzzs3236]

​@@stanbimi .........Bro you leaving comments like this is beyond pathetic😂

[@HungLingLim]

My visit to Dali was in rush. didnt have chance to visit such as places. 🥲