Located five kilometers (three miles) away from the city center in the northwestern suburb of Guilin, Reed Flute Cave is a wonderland of all sorts of stalactite, stone pillars and rock formations. In the early Tang Dynasty (618 - 907), tourists came to this site and over 70 pieces of wall paintings in the cave earn it the name of "Natural Art Palace".

It is the largest and perhaps the most spectacular of the karst caverns in Guilin. And it is said that Guilins most spectacular scenery is 1000 feet under this cave.

With their endless variety of remarkable scenes, visitors in the cave could undoubtedly evoke breathless admiration from domestic. It is a pleasant experience to listen to a tour guides interpretation of the romantic legends and stories behind those fantastic formations.

One grotto, which called the Crystal Palace of the Dragon King, can hold about 1000 people. During the war, the grotto once served as an air-raid shelter.

What impress visitors most here are the stone curtains, which not only boast fantastic forms but resonant sounds. When struck, some give a booming sound as a drum; others produce a ring sound like a piano.

At present, there are 77 stone inscriptions through the ages inside the cave since the discovery and opening of the cave in 1959, a lot of tourist installations, such as restaurants, a teahouse, waterside pavilions, a pond and a zigzag bridge have been established here. Moreover, there are pleasure-boats on the pond, and flowers and trees could be seen here and there. In a word, the Reed Flute Cave has become one of the most popular spots that Chinese and foreign tourists will be bound to visit.