Ludi Cave, Guilin

Ludi Cave is located in the northwestern suburb of Guilin, 5 kilometers away from the city center. It is a famous scenic spot mainly for cave touring and secondarily for enjoying the landscape and rural scenery. Ludi Cave is 240 meters deep with a touring distance of 500 meters. There are a large quantity of stalagmites, stalactites, stone columns, stone draperies and stone flowers inside the cave. They are graceful in posture and translucent, forming such spectacles as Lion Ridge Morning Glow, Red Luo Bed Curtain, Coiled Dragon Pagoda, Primeval Forest, Crystal Palace and Flower-Fruit Mountain. Tourists' eyes can hardly keep up with what they see, just like in fairyland. The cave is praised as "the Art Palace of Nature". There have been visitors since the Tang Dynasty and there are now 77 mural paintings preserved inside the cave. After its discovery and development in 1959, it now has restaurants, tea rooms, waterside pavilions, lakes, winding bridges and tour boats. Plenty of flowers and trees have been planted here. It has become a must-see tourist attraction for both Chinese and foreign tourists to Guilin.