Reed Flute Cave

Located in the northwest of Guilin City, Reed Flute Cave is known as "the Palace of Natural Arts". The cave is one of the largest known examples of what each tropical karst cone conceals within it. It is a cave on the southern shoulder of the Guangming Hill (Bright Hill) and is one of the most extraordinary scenic spots in Guilin.

The cave got its name from a kind of verdant reeds growing outside, with which people can make melodious flutes. The Reed Flute Cave is about 240 meters high 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. These remarkable scenes in the cave can evoke breathless admiration from domestic and foreign visitors.

Colored fluorescent lights which cast shadows and illuminate shapes of imaginary animals, fruits and vegetables complete the unworldly effect. Since the cave opened to the public in 1962, millions of travelers from home and abroad go to visit it each year.