The city of Guilin, southern China, is surronded by an incredible karst landscape. Above the ground you will see amazing peaks. But underground there is another, but just as amazing landscape of caves in different sizes.
One of them is named Reed Flute Cave or the Ludi Yan Cave. The name derives from a time when the entrance was covered with reeds. The people living here used the reeds to make flutes.
There are tunnels leading to huge areas where the hight might be up to 10 meters. The tunnels are illuminated so we could find our way. Even though the cave is illumitad artificial with different colors, it was an impressie sight. Even it's artifisial, the cave system itself is natural and we do need light to be able to be there.
One of the larger rooms is called the Crystal Palace of the Dragon King. It can hold about 1000 people, but during WWII it could hold a lot more people. The inhabitants of Guilin used the cave to hide from the Japanese during the invasion. While walking, entering the larger caves, I tried to imagine what it must have been like for the people of Guilin to be clustered together in a dark cave.
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