Today I headed out of Nanning to a place called Yiling, which is noted for its network of underground limestone caves. Before you get to explore the caves you are expected to undergo a guided tour of a typical village of the local Zhuang tribe, including watching various artistic performances and sampling their food and drink. This part of the tour was about as genuine as the tours of ‘ethnic’ native American or Maori villages that one gets to see, but it was reasonably entertaining nevertheless. The caves themselves were spectacular and enhanced by coloured lighting (the Chinese do like their coloured lights). Hard to do them justice with photos. Although the guide only spoke Chinese, I don’t think I missed much as apparently most of the spiel was about how various stalactite formations looked like some animal or another.
More pictures at: http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/rajbooth/Yiling?authkey=3M1tyLToOtg
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