Today we went to see the Reed Flute Cave which was just a short bus trip from our hotel. It’s a limestone cave which has been illuminated by many coloured lights throughout to highlight the many wonderful formations.

No discount here unless you are Chinese, which I think we sound adopt in our own countries…….give the locals a cheaper price than the tourist……… and you know this is a common practice throughout South East Asia, it’s just that if Western countries were to do this then we would be seen as racist.

It’s a short walk to the cave entrance and we had to wait for the next tour to start which of course is given by a young robotic looking female. The script is in Chinese so for us it’s useless. Even before we entered the cave system she hadn’t taken a breath during her monotone commentary and of course this continued as we moved through the cave. The Chinese love a good commentary broadcast through one of these personal PA systems that all guides here use, like most foreigners I’ve spoken to they also hate this because it’s so fucking loud. The Chinese seem to love it.

We dropped back from the main group so that we could get more time to appreciate the cave and also to stop our ears from bleeding. I enjoyed walking through the cave and when we reached one of the largest chambers we actually split from our Chinese party and tagged onto the back of a German group.

If you come to Guilin I would recommend to you that you should visit the caves and explore the rest of the park area although we headed back after a short walk up to a small pavilion. Tomorrow we are heading to Yangshuo and I’m really looking forward to the river cruise down the Li River.