Guilin Trip - Enchanting Backcountries |
The ethereal beauty of Guilin's landscape has inspired poets and artists for centuries. Our trip starts from a relaxing cruise on the famous Li Riverfrom Guilin to Yangshuo where we enjoy the rugged limestone peaks that soar from an otherwise flat terrain. In Yangshuo, a sleepy backpacker's enclave where various activities like biking, hiking, rafting and kayaking, awaits your exploration. In Longsheng, we hike through charming the Zhuang and Yao minority villages in route to the stunning terraced rice fields. Exhausted? Let the luxurious hot-spring resort in Longsheng's forest park take the weary from your bones. |
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Time: All year round (best time from April to October)
Day-by-Day Itinerary:
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Located in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, our first stop Guilin has some of the best scenery in the world. Reed Flute Cave is a wonder-world of stalactites, stone pillars and rock formations created by carbonate deposits. Elephant Trunk Hill is regarded as the symbol of Guilin, and resembles an elephant leisurely sucking water from the river with its long trunk. The city looks magical when the ancient pagodas and bridges along the water way are lit up with colorful lights and perfect for an Evening Cruise accompanied by tea and classical Chinese music.
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The Cruise along the Li River from Guilin towards Yangshuo passes through landscape that seems lifted straight out of a Chinese scroll painting. The shallow river weaves between sheer-sided, 980-foot ( 300m ) karst peaks, all weathered into intriguing shapes and interspersed with the villages and bamboo groves so typical of southern China rural areas. People here still travel the river on low bamboo rafts, often using trained cormorants to catch fish.
Yangshuo is a small but peaceful town with stunning country scenery. The town's West Street , filled with cafes and backpacker homes, is known as "the Earth Village in China ". We will have serious fun with biking, hiking, rafting and karaking in Yangshuo, and take in the beautiful sceneries such as small villages hidden behind paddies, water buffalos patrolling the fields while fishermen boat on the river. To spice up the trip, we have fishing-village tour, cormorant fishing show, mud bath, cooking class and ¡°Impression of Liusanjie¡± Music Water Show.
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Days 5-7: Longsheng
The mountainous Longsheng region is not particularly suitable for agriculture, and so the Zhuang and Yao people that settled here had to meticulously carve their fields from the sides of the mountain; these feats of farm engineering reach all the way up to a string of 800m peaks and are appropriately named Dragon's Backbone Terraces. The terraces are stunning to behold, especially when the paddies are submerged and sparkle under the sun. You will have a chance to taste the local food in the village and appreciate the traditional singing and dancing performances when Partying with the Village School . Our final stop is the 4-star Hot-Spring Resort deep in the valley of Longsheng 's forest park where your weary legs will be comforted by the compassionate spring in the most harmonious setting of nature.
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