Red Flute Cave

After climbing on Elephant Hill, we cabbed to Red Flute Cave. We were the only Westerners on the cave tour, so the guide gave the tour first in Chinese and then in English, giggling in the same spots in both languages.

Red Flute Cave is amazing and quite beautiful with many different formations that they have lit up with bright neon lights. The long descriptive names of the formations made us laugh with names like "Caterpillar Scared at Reflection in Mirror Covered with Silk."

I have been in a few limestone caves in my life, given that Southern Indiana has several of them, but I have never seen one as large and fascinating as Red Flute.


After 30 minutes of walking and giggling at our tour guide saying "silk" as "thilk", we arrived at the most spectacular setting in the cave. This picture is mostly water, reflecting the ceiling of the cave. Given that it was so hot and humid outside, it felt so wonderful in the cool and damp cave. As soon I walked outside, I wanted to turn around and go back inside.

*Travel Hint: If you go to Red Flute Cave, there is a sign for "international tourists" and "domestic tourists." Use the domestic tourist route because the international route puts you in a shopping center where you get hounded by aggressive, loud, screeching women to buy something.