Guilin Day 2- The Caves

After visiting YueYue, we visited an amazing series of caverns. The tour was breathtaking in its lighting design.



















The half-mile hike into the center of the cave was worth it...we turned a corner in the path and came upon a beautiful subterranean pool!



Once outside, we walked through some lovely gardens



with a wonderful set of foo dogs...


It just so happened this was Qing Ming Je, of the Day of the Sacred Dead. On this festival day, families take to the countryside to clean the tombs of their ancestors, to offer tributes of food and libation, to burn replicas of paper money and to set of firecrackers by the score.



All day long, the sound of firecrackers echoed through the mountains. If you look through the smoke from the firecrackers, you can make out people tending graves all the way up the mountainside.



As if this weren't enough, we had MORE adventures in store!