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Reed Flute Cave
China tips you can trust
Why
Reed Flute Cave
is special
China has more caves than any other nation. Most travelers consider the Reed Flute Cave (situated just outside the city of Guilin) to be the most interesting.
Reed
Flute Cave
tips & insights
Rock
formations
Reed Flute Cave has remarkable stalactites, stalagmites and other rock formations in a myriad of fanciful shapes.
Popular
for over 1,000 years
The cave was popular with tourists and poets about 1300 years ago during the Tang Dynasty. Some wrote inscriptions on the cave walls, which can be seen today.
Modern
day
Reed Flute Cave shortcomings
Tour
guide bullhorns
The loud, disturbing sound of many tour guides using bull horns inside an
enclosed space ruins the natural serenity of a cave.
Wrong
focus
Tour guides overly focus on what the formations resemble (birds, animals, flowers,
what have you) at the expense of conveying the beauty of the formations and
explaining how they evolved. Taking the
"use your imagination" approach is good,
but it can be overdone.
Lighting
Many formations are overly illuminated with multi-colored lights, to the
point of being somewhat kitschy. This masks
and distracts from the cave's natural beauty.
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