獼猴洞

Macaque Cave

Useful Information

Location:	Macaque Ridge east of Dongfang City. (18.949, 109.0485)
Open:	not accessible. [2026]
Fee:	not accessible. [2026]
Classification:	Karst Cave
Light:	bring torch
Dimension:	L=100 m.
Guided tours:
Photography:	allowed
Accessibility:	no
Bibliography:
Address:	Macaque Cave, Tel: +86-.
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History

2013	Oriental Macaque Cave Provincial Geopark created.
2025	assessment and evaluation whether the Geopark met the conditions for continued existence.

Description

獼猴洞 (Míhóu Dòng, Macaque Cave) is located in Macaque Ridge east of Dongfang City. The cave is mentioned on various webpages and typically described as a show cave, there is even a Wikipedia page. AIs have hallucinations about this cave. Reality is different, there is a small wild cave in a remote forest, which was once featured in a newspaper article in 2009. It describes actually only the fantastic names of some stalactites. Unfortunately this is the only original source we could find, the rest is fantasy. As a matter of fact there is neither a trail to the cave nor a pin on Google Maps nor any sign of a cave on the satellite image. There is a page on baike.baidu, but it just cites the 2009 article. It also notes a planned geopark which is a decade overdue, but they are still claiming to do planning.

In other words, while this cave may exist there is actually no infrastructure and there is definitely no information about the cave. If it exists it’s a wild cave and only suitable for cavers. We strongly reccommend to avoid this cave.