Guilin landscape self-guided tour guide

Guilin’s complete self-guided tour guide to landscapes and rivers

Guilin is an ancient cultural city. With a history of more than two thousand years, it has a rich cultural heritage. In ancient times, this was the land of Baiyue and belonged to the Chu State during the Warring States Period. After Qin Shihuang unified China, he established Guilin County and dug Ling Canal to connect the Xiangjiang River and Lijiang River. Since then, Guilin has become an important town in the Nantong Sea and the Central Plains in the north. Over the long years, Guilin's beautiful mountains and rivers attracted countless literati, who wrote many popular poems and articles, and carved more than 2,000 stone carvings and calligraphy. In addition, history is still left here. Many monuments and ruins.

These unique cultural landscapes inevitably make people feel that traveling in the mountains is like reading history, and looking at mountains is like viewing paintings. According to geological research, about 300 million years ago, Guilin was originally a vast ocean. Due to the movement of the earth's crust, the limestone deposited in the sea rose to become land. After weathering and dissolution, it finally formed fairyland peaks, deep and magnificent caves and mysterious underground rivers. These special landforms are integrated with the Lijiang River and the beautiful and charming pastoral scenery around it, forming the unique Guilin landscape that is famous both at home and abroad. ?.

Recommended travel routes in Guilin

Landscape tours: Elephant Trunk Mountain? Reed Flute Cave? Diecai Mountain? Fubo Mountain? Seven Star Park? Lijiang Folk Customs Park

Heritage tour: Jingjiang Palace (Duxiu Peak)? Guihai Forest of Steles

Mid-city tour: Jingjiang Palace? Jingjiang Imperial City? Rongshan Lake

Eastern route tour: Seven Star Park (Guihai Stele Forest)? Yao Mountain? Jingjiang Royal Tombs? Lijiang Folk Customs Park

Southern Tour: Elephant Trunk Mountain? Nanxi Mountain

Western Tour: Reed Flute Yan? Taohua River? Liu Sanjie Landscape Garden? Xishan Park

Northern route tour: Diecai Mountain? Yushan Mountain

Water system tour around the city: Lijiang River? Taohua River? Mulong Lake? Guihu Lake ?Rong Lake? Shan Lake

1. Elephant Trunk Mountain

Elephant Trunk Mountain is composed of pure limestone deposited on the seabed 360 million years ago. Representative of karst landforms. From a distance, it really looks like an elephant extending its trunk into the water. This is also an iconic tourist attraction in Guilin. There are also more than 50 cliff stone carvings in the park, including the works of famous poets such as Lu You, Fan Chengda, and Zhang Xiaoxiang.

Tickets: 25 yuan

Bus transportation: Bus No. 2, 16, 23, free bus No. 58

Tips: It is better to sit down when taking photos When taking a photo during the boat cruise on the Li River, the night view of mountains, water and moon is very good. Friends who love photography must not miss it. After 19:00, Elephant Trunk Mountain does not charge tickets, but don’t go too late, because after 22:00, it will be dark and you can’t see your fingers. You can also take a private bamboo raft in during the day. In this case, you don't have to pay the entrance fee but you have to pay 10-15 yuan for the bamboo raft. It takes 15 minutes to climb the mountain, and there are bamboo rafts and fishing eagles for rent to take photos.

2. Reed Flute Cave

Reed Flute Cave is located in Guangming Mountain in the northwest suburb of Guilin. The Reed Flute Cave is 240 meters deep and the route is winding. The entire walk is actually about 500 meters. There are all kinds of colorful stalactites scattered throughout the cave. A large number of stalactites, stone pillars, stone curtains and stone flowers form a colorful scene, which is so beautiful and wonderful that it is beyond words.

Tickets: 60 yuan

Opening hours: 7:30-18:00

Public transportation: No. 3 bus and No. 58 free public welfare Car

3. Seven Star Park

Seven Star Park is the largest park in Guilin. Putuo Mountain is the main mountain of Qixing Park. Among them, the most worth seeing are Yan Zhenqing's Xiaoyao Tower, Fan Chengda's "Bixu Ming" in the Song Dynasty, the turtle-snake relief in the Ming Dynasty, and the 800 warriors' tombs and three generals in Bowang Ping. Tomb etc. The Guihai Stele Forest in Crescent Mountain is also a must-see attraction.

Tickets: 35 yuan for the park, 30 yuan for Qixingyan, or you can buy a 65 yuan pass at the door.

Public transportation: Bus Nos. 10, 14, and 24 and free public welfare buses No. 52 and 58.

Tips: Crescent House is famous for its vegetarian noodles and vegetarian banquets. Guihai Stele Forest can be entered from the side entrance of the park (near Longyin Bridge).

4. Diecai Mountain

Diecai Mountain is named after the stone layers on the mountain that overlap like silk and satin. The main peak is "Mingyue Peak". From the top of the peak, you can overlook the mountains. You can see that the rocks in the mountains are stacked on top of each other and the mountain flowers are in full bloom. Only then can you understand what this mountain is called "Colorful Colors". Diecai Tower is the best place to enjoy the scenery.

Tickets: 20 yuan

Opening hours: 8:00-18:30

Public transportation: No. 2 bus and No. 58 free public welfare car

5. Jingjiang Prince’s Mansion

Jingjiang Prince’s Mansion was the palace where Zhu Shouqian, the grandnephew of Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, was named King of Jingjiang. It is the best-preserved Ming Dynasty palace in the country. The palace. "Guilin's landscapes are the best in the world" This famous saying spread all over the world comes from the Song Dynasty stone carvings of Duxiu Peak in the palace.

Tickets: 50 yuan

Public transportation: buses 1, 10, 18, 22, 24 and free public welfare buses 51 and 57.

6. The water system surrounding the city with two rivers and four lakes

The water system surrounding the city with two rivers and four lakes includes the Lijiang River (urban section), Taohua River, Ronghu Lake, Shanxi River, etc. Lake, Gui Lake and Mulong Lake. The shores of the four lakes are densely covered with vegetation and various strange rocks stand out. The design of the newly built Sixteenth Bridge refers to famous bridges at home and abroad, both ancient and modern, and is unique and creative. There are Sun and Moon Twin Pagodas on Shan Lake. Among them, the Sun Pagoda is the world's tallest copper tower, the world's tallest copper building, and the world's tallest underwater tower.

Tickets: 149 yuan for regular boats, 155 yuan for air-conditioned boats

Tips: Tickets can be purchased on the first floor of Guilin International Travel Service on Binjiang Road, the first floor of Guilin World Tower, etc. You can get on the boat at Shanhu Zhiyin Platform, Jiefang Bridge Pier, Mulong Lake Scenic Area, etc. Night tours work best.

Public transportation: buses 1, 10, 18, and 22 and free public welfare buses 51, 54, and 58

7. Lijiang River Folk Customs Park

Lijiang Folk Customs Park is located at the mouth of the two rivers on Linjiang Road. It is the most local entertainment place in Guilin. It is home to the different cultures, arts, customs, and customs of the Yao, Dong, Zhuang, and Miao compatriots. The singing and dancing will make you, a foreigner, feel extremely novel and exciting, and you won't want to miss Shu.

Tickets: 50 yuan (daytime), 60 yuan (night)

Public transportation: No. 2

Guilin Best Travel Time

The best travel season in Guilin is summer and autumn (April-November). From April to November every year, Guilin has beautiful mountains and clear waters, which is the best time for sightseeing. You can enjoy the magnificent line drawing wonders in Longsheng. Within half a month after the 15th day of the fourth lunar month, the watery Longji Rice Terraces are another wonder. There are many festivals, including the Longsheng Red Clothes Festival in early April and the Miao New Year in October, each with its own liveliness and excitement.

The Elephant Trunk Mountain and the Double Moon on the Li River on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival are even more beautiful, attracting many tourists. Although spring and winter are in the off-season for tourism, Guilin is known as "three winters with little snow and four seasons with flowers". It also attracts tourists due to grand festivals such as Dong Fireworks Festival, Yao Forbidden Wind Festival, Zhuang March 3rd, and Gongcheng Peach Blossom Festival. with many tourists. In the hot spring scenic area, you can also enjoy the winter warmth brought by the hot springs in the mountains and dense forests.

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