In 2008, after checking into our Guilin hotel in Southeast China near Vietnam, we hired a taxi and visited Reed Flute Cave (Ludi Cave), which is in Northwest Guilin.
Photo by Lloyd Lofthouse
Reed Flute Cave was named during the Tang Dynasty (618 – 907 AD) due to reeds (Ludi Cao) growing near the cave’s entrance, which are still used to make flutes.
Photo by Lloyd Lofthouse
There are historical stone ink inscriptions inside the cave dated to 792 AD.
Lucky Turtle Photo taken by Lloyd Lofthouse
Millions have walked these paved pathways. Reed Flute Cave has been an attraction for over a thousand years, and the modern tour lasts about an hour.
Photo by Lloyd Lofthouse
During Times of war, the local people would hide in the cave. One grotto, the Crystal Palace of the Dragon King, could hold a thousand people.
Photo by Lloyd Lofthouse
Crown Cave was the second underground attraction, but it was late and the next day we were on our way to the Li River.
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Lloyd Lofthouse is the award-winning author of My Splendid Concubine [3rd edition]. When you love a Chinese woman, you marry her family and culture too. This is the love story Sir Robert Hart did not want the world to discover.
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