Guilin to Yangshuo Day Tour Li River Cruise and Reed Flute Cave

Li River At 8:00 AM, the driver guide picks you up at the lobby of Guilin hotel and drive to the dock where you will embark, the driver guide will collect boat tickets for you. 9:30am - 1:20pm The cruise from Guilin to Yangshuo for about 4 hours, Visitors are amazed at the seemingly never-ending unique karst hills and rivers that stretch for as far as the eye can see. You can walk up to the top deck and see dreamy scenery of winding Li River for about 3.5 hours. If you prefer, you may stay at your seat and enjoy the relaxing journey. Your journey ends in Yangshuo at about 1:30 pm and then enjoy your free time to explore Yangshuo center, the west street for about 1 hour. Note: You will be on the boat independently during the cruise. Your driver-guide will meet you at the Yangshuo dock upon arrival.

West Street is located the center in Yangshuo, one of the oldest and beautiful town along the Li River. Built in 590 during the Sui Dynasty, this street became well-know since 1980’s due to many tourists took cruise and disembark there and found this very nice and tranquil place and it is regarded as the backpacker’s mecca, more and more young tourists come even stay for a while there. You still can see the old style building with various of shops, restaurants, coffee shops, bars, etc After the tour in Yangshuo West Street, we will drive to Guilin Reed Flute Cave or Yangshuo Silver Cave Notes: We only visit one cave, not two caves.

Reed Flute Cave is situated in the hillside of the Bright Hill of Northwest Guilin and near the Peach Blossom River, about 7 km to downtown. The cave gets its name from a kind of reed growing near the entrance to the cave makes fine flutes. It is 800 meters long and takes you about fifty minutes for exploring. The cave opened to public in 1962, it is most tourists' visit-cave in China even in the world and is described as "Art Palace of Nature" . Inside the cave are a large number of stalactites, stalagmites, stone pillars, stone curtains, and stone flowers, all glistening in colorful lights which create breathtaking splendor which are really feast of your eyes, they are given names according to what they look like. The Crystal Palace where illuminated stalagmites reflect in the caves natural lake is the most impressive sights of the cave. Or you can visit Silver Cave to replace to Reed Flute Cave.

After exploring this beautiful cave, you will be transferred back to your hotel in Guilin or Yangshuo.