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Reed Flute Cave (Ludi Yan)

Reed Flute Cave is located on the northwest outskirts of Guilin, 5 kilometers away from the downtown area. Reed Flute Cave is Guilin's largest and most impressive cave and contains some of the most extraordinary underground scenery in all of China.

 
 
According to a legend, Reed Flute Cave got its name because people believed that the reed by the cave's mouth could be made into flutes. The length of the Reed Flute Cave is 240 meters and offers a majestic fairyland of karst caves with landscape and rural scenery. It is a magic fairyland of stalactites, stalagmites, stone pillars, stone curtains, birds, plants and animals in fantastic shapes and colors, all glistening in colorful lights. Some of them were given names such as Pines in the Snow, Mushroom Hill, Dragon Pagoda, Sky-Scraping Twin, Virgin Forests, Red Curtain, etc. The cave is highly praised as the "Huge Art Palace of the Nature". Tourists began to visit here in the Tang Dynasty. There are 77 stone inscriptions covering many years of history.
 
Visitors can either follow one of the tours that go through the cave every 20 minutes, or take your time rejoining a tour later on.

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