Guide to Guilin Yangshuo Xing'an self-driving tour

This friend, I have been studying and working in Guilin for 5 years. I have been to all the places you mentioned! But I didn’t drive there, and I didn’t go there in consecutive days! Generally speaking, I didn’t go there by car. They are all by car!

I reposted a self-driving tour route from Foshan, Guangdong to Guilin on the Internet. You can just refer to it! However, I think three days is a bit short for a trip to Guilin. Yes! Because it’s rare to go there once, I have to play Gao Yuanxing! I wish you a happy trip! I also hope it will be helpful to you!

Yangshuo, Longsheng, Xing’an, Guilin seven-day self-driving tour

Yangshuo, Guilin, Longsheng, Xing'an Tour

Day 1: Depart from Foshan at 7 a.m. via Sanshui/Sihui/Guangning/Huaiji/Xindu/Hezhou/Zhongshan/Lipu, Arrive in Yangshuo at a little after 6 o'clock in the evening and check into DIY Family Hotel in Xijiekou. The road conditions in Huaiji, Guangning, and Zhongshan in Hezhou are very bad. There are big cracks along the way from time to time, and half of the road is blocked from time to time for repairs. Fortunately, there are people holding walkie-talkies at the intersections under maintenance to direct, otherwise the two cars will encounter a cow and there will be a blockage. . When we arrived at Ertang, a big sign on the roadside pointed us to the wrong direction. We should have gone to Shasha Town (in the direction of Gongcheng) and Welfare Town, but we took Lipu instead, which was a lot of walking. Xindu's chicken stew is good. It's cooked to order and cooked immediately. It's delicious and costs 50 yuan per chicken. Add a plate of vegetables and four bowls of rice and the bill is 55 yuan. Yangshuo's beer fish (carp) is a big dish, the taste is average, only spicy but not the beer taste.

The next day: Get up early in the morning and take the "smuggling boat" to Xingping, from Xingping - Jiumahua Mountain - Xingping Luosi Mountain, 1 and a half hours, 40 yuan / person. Later, climb Xingping Laozhai Mountain and overlook the Li River (pictured). After returning to the hotel for a nap, I went to visit Moon Mountain and watched it on the roadside, saving nine yuan. In the evening, I went to Yangshuo Binjiang Road Pier to watch the children from Yangshuo swimming with a few foreigners. I watched the people from Yangshuo washing clothes and picking up stones by the river. The water was very clear and there was no strange smell.

Day three: Get up at 6:30 and have breakfast at Shouzi Rice Noodle Shop. Take the Yangshuo-Jinbao shuttle bus, get off the bus and walk on a country road to see Fuli Bridge, and then walk back to Yulong Bridge. It was already past 11 o'clock. We took a bamboo raft rafting on the Yulong River. We chose to float half way, 120 yuan/2 people (the official ticket price is 150 yuan/2 people). The quiet Yulong River is actually charming. It would be better if it wasn't so hot! However, it may become as lively as the Lijiang River in the future, because I heard that some travel agencies are investing huge sums of money to build it. We landed at Xinglongzhai at around 1 o'clock and had lunch at a farmhouse on the shore. I saw three or five shirtless ghost guys wandering around on an electric bicycle. When they found a good place, they started diving and jumped in all kinds of tricks. They were really good at having fun! Take a tricycle back to the hotel and rest. I waited until the sun was about to go down before going out to visit West Street. (The three days we went there were the hottest days in Yangshuo, and there was no wind). West Street is famous for those bars, but we are past the age of liking noisiness, so we only went to "Li Ping Cafe" for dinner, where there were many ghosts. Her stuffed snails are delicious, and the other products are also good, but the sanitary environment is not very good (if you look around, you can already see three or four little ones). Although they claimed to have killed the insects a day earlier, the overall sanitary environment in Yangshuo is not very good, so they cannot be alone. Some people say that the environment in Lijiang is very good, and the floors in the streets are clean.

Interlude: 1) The family hotel we stayed in Yangshuo was bought and renovated by a person named Sister Yu. All her relatives were not around, but she stayed there after she retired just because she fell in love with Yangshuo. Own residence and investment. All the rooms were designed and renovated by her. She said she liked decorating the rooms the most. I suddenly thought of Cao Jie. If Master Cao was here, he must have many things in common with her. Let me show you the previous picture. We live in a duplex with 2 beds below and a large mattress above. It costs 180 yuan/night. According to her, there was a ghost guy who stayed at Prime Time for 1,000 yuan a night!

2) I have never eaten Guilin rice noodles before. When I come to Guilin, of course I have to try it. I actually ate rice noodles 5 times in 7 days, and I still miss it now! If you find the right store, the rice noodles are really delicious, like the Slim Rice Noodles Store in Guilin or the Old Can Rice Noodles Store in Xing'an. They are soft and smooth. Add some pork bones and soybeans to the soup, and add some sour beans, pickled cucumbers, and sour kelp. It's really delicious. Tastes great! The price is also cheap, a large bowl (2 taels) only costs 1.2-1.5 yuan.

3) Maybe Guilin is a tourist city, and all tableware is disinfected uniformly. In restaurants, bowls/plates/cups/wine glasses are packaged in transparent plastic paper. This is worthy of promotion in other places. There are also restaurants in Yangshuo that do not serve tea. They always bring out a large orange juice can, which is filled with water boiled with hawthorn leaves or frozen. This is a special feature.

Day 4: Monday, cloudy, finally wind blowing, it is a good weather. Starting early in the morning, the road condition from Yangshuo to Guilin is good, the speed limit is 80, and the scenery is endless. Unexpectedly, a police officer stopped the car in front of us and asked us to pull over and look at the time: 07:48. We pulled down the window and the policeman next to us asked the intercom, "What is the time?" The intercom read 7:42, police said. Let's hand over our driver's licenses and say we were speeding at 7:42. In the past, the police car handled the matter, but the inspector was very nice. As long as they paid 200 yuan to handle it on site, there would be no need to deduct points or certificates. I whispered that I wanted to see the evidence, but LG wouldn't let me speak out, saying they wouldn't let me go so as not to make things difficult for me. I saw a Gui H truck in front of me handling the matter, and a Gui C car stopped behind me. The speed limit on the processing book was 80, and we were 94.

It's definitely impossible. LG said it didn't even open to 90, maybe 84. We all said that we were out looking for food. The Welfare Squadron came to Baisha to ambush us. We got up so early to work because we thought that after relaxing in Yangshuo for two days, we would definitely leave early on Monday and rush back to Guilin to go to work. So you will definitely be able to make huge profits and come home with a lot of rewards. Of course I felt bad, but my mother-in-law calmed everyone down and they put it down. I told LG that you have been driving for so long, but you have never been fined for speeding. It ruins their reputation.

Go through Guilin Banbian City, take Airport Road, pass through Lingui County, and walk towards Longsheng. The road condition in Lingui is quite good, with straight trees and idyllic scenery on both sides like ink paintings under the mist. It only costs 5 yuan, which is worth the money. It is not like the roads in Huaiji, Hezhou, which are full of potholes and ravines. Hey, but I still have to pay 7 yuan and 10 yuan. After passing Longsheng County and heading towards Sanjiang, you must first see the Wind and Rain Bridge in Chengyang. Unexpectedly, the road conditions were so bad. The wide road was paved with large and small cobblestones and gray sand, just like the Gobi Desert seen on TV. Our small car was afraid of the big rocks scratching the bottom, so we drove slowly, but the big car was not afraid and drove past suddenly, kicking up dust all over the sky and blocking out the sun. We have been shaking for almost an hour, but the road is still the same, but we have not yet arrived at Laoli Town, 23 kilometers away from Longsheng County. We are panicking, the road ahead is long, and there are no instructions. There was a section of road where no big cars passed. A taxi came towards us. He stopped aside and lowered the window to signal. The driver also stopped. When we asked how far it was to Sanjiang, he crossed his five fingers and said There were still 55 kilometers left. When I asked if all roads were like this, he didn’t seem to hear clearly and said again that it was more than 50 kilometers, but we had already decided to turn around. I don't know if I can get there even if it's dark like that. If I break the car, I don't know what to do. I'm lucky to have retreated! ! (Let’s talk about the first half of the day first)

(Continued) Turn around and go back to Longsheng County to find a place for lunch, and then walk along the Longsheng Riverside Road. Longsheng County is built along the river and close to the mountains, so its scale is certainly not that big. 13:30 Continue to set off, walk back to Ping'an Township, and walk along the mountain road to where the road is blocked, which is the ticket office of Longji Scenic Area. There is a 10 yuan discount for senior citizens, and the ticket costs 180 yuan. Follow the winding mountain road to the parking lot of Ping'an Village, wait for the person sent by Shanxing Hotel to pick you up, and then walk up the stone steps to the Shanxing Hotel halfway up Ping'an Village. (There are many people in the parking lot selling tour guide and porter services). The hotel owner and his wife are very nice, they only let you go to your room to rest first, and they don't have to go through any formalities. When we settled in and went out to watch "Seven Stars Accompanying the Moon", they were having lunch and (15:30) asked us to go back and check in again. "Seven Stars Accompany the Moon", except for the "moon" which is round and planted with green rice, the other stars are ugly and the varieties planted are all in a mess. The grandmother who runs a stall on the roadside said that her villagers earn very little from ticket sales, so they have to grow some cash crops such as peppers and sweet potatoes to increase their income.

Eating wild mushroom braised chicken on the mountain hike in the evening, delicious! That rice is more delicious, fragrant, tough, and smells like rice and firewood. This is the food that real people need every day! I think because they grow it themselves, they don't process the rice again and again like people in the city do, so they retain the original taste of the rice.

Although the hotel room facilities are simple (only two beds, one bedside table, and one TV cabinet), they are clean and tidy. The green terraces can be seen through the windows, which is pretty good.

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Day five, Tuesday. I got up at dawn (5:30). I was worried that I would not be able to see clearly after walking on the mountain road for a while. After washing myself, it became brighter. We climbed to the No. 2 scenic spot of Ping'an Village, "Nine Dragons and Five Tigers", to wait for the sunrise, but the fog was too thick and we couldn't see it. However, we could appreciate the foggy Ping'an Village and terraced fields, as well as the misty mountains in the distance, like Like a fairyland. (Almost 7 o'clock) Put away the tripod, one foot high and one foot low, go up the mountain and down the mountain, cross the bridge and walk on the field base, and walk towards Dazhai. When passing by the Sixth Form (an ancient village in the middle), we greeted each other from time to time with the Yao girls who went to Ping'an Village to work. They asked us if we wanted to hire a tour guide and if we wanted to watch them comb their hair. Haha, it turns out that long hair is okay. This is how you make money! Some Yao girls are really admirable. They have a large bundle of branches, the branches are as thick as my wrist and more than 1.7 meters long. They carry them on their shoulders and walk quickly on the mountain road. There are small curved bamboos hanging behind their waists. The basket is the scimitar they use to chop wood. While they were resting on the roadside, my father-in-law tried to move it with both hands, but he only moved it a few times. My father-in-law said it weighed at least a hundred kilograms. Tsk tsk! The terraces in the sixth form are also quite spectacular and beautiful. After walking for more than three hours, we arrived at the No. 1 scenic spot in Dazhai, "Xishan Shaole." My willpower was already very weak and I didn't want to climb to the top, so I just took pictures halfway up the mountain. After taking the photos, we left immediately. We didn’t have the energy to go to the other beautiful sceneries No. 2 and 3 because we had to rush back. After walking for another 3 hours, like a forced march, we finally returned to the mountain hike. (14:00) I can finally sit down and have a good rest to eat, but my stomach has already been growling. It’s really an extreme exercise! ! My mother-in-law is very active. The effect of her daily exercise is fully realized. She keeps a long distance in front of me and my father-in-law. She is happy to walk and sings and trots from time to time. Not to mention LG, all the burden was handed over to him, and I only walked lightly.

While summarizing while eating, LG said that this time he had made a mistake. He should park the car at the foot of the mountain (scenic area shuttle bus transfer point), then take the scenic area shuttle bus to Dazhai to stay, then hike to Ping'an Village, and take the shuttle bus down the mountain from Ping'an. Not so tired. But we don’t know the situation, and we don’t know if it will come back in the future. LG said it will come back after the expressway is opened in two years. After lunch (the bamboo tube chicken is very expensive, costing 88 yuan, and it’s actually not that delicious. I wonder if the store had prepared it earlier and the fragrance of bamboo has been lost?) checked out and walked to Guilin. (The boss and his wife kept letting us rest before leaving. They didn’t mind at all that we had exceeded the clock time and time again. I’m really grateful to them!) When we were approaching Guilin, we took a section of the Ring Expressway to Lingchuan. There was no toll station on that section of the expressway. There is no charge, so we spent a long time thinking about it. After passing through Lingchuan County, we came to Xing'an County and found the Xing'an Armed Forces Department Guesthouse according to the introduction in the book. The girl offered a price of 80 yuan per room. We showed her the price of 60 yuan in the book. She agreed and borrowed the book from us. She also introduced us to Lingqu that we could go to Lingqu in the morning or evening when no one was working at the side door without tickets. .

Day six, Wednesday. Get up early, eat rice noodles on Water Street, and then walk along Water Street to Lingqu. Sure enough, there is a gate and a ticket office. Wow, the ticket is 40 yuan per person! (The book also said it was 20 yuan. The speed of publishing the book could not keep up with the price increase.) Fortunately, there was no one around. We went in with the people on morning walks and looked at the map of the scenic spot. We were walking along the south channel of Lingqu. ( The South Canal comes out from the Xiangjiang River and flows into the Darong River → Lijiang → Pearl River). There is a large park inside, and there are many citizens doing various morning exercises. While exercising, we also walked to the core projects of Lingqu Canal - the large and small scales and the mouth. The Huazui divides the Xiangjiang River into 30/70 parts, with 30% flowing into the South Canal and the Pearl River water system, and 70% flowing into the North Canal and into the Xiangjiang River. The excess water from the Xiangjiang River flows into the Xiangjiang River through large and small scales (that is, sloping dams) (which plays a role in flood discharge). . The entire project connects the Yangtze River water system and the Pearl River water system, and was an important water transportation channel connecting the north and the south in the past. After 2,000 years, the Lingqu canal is still running. I don’t want to say anything praising the ancients anymore. I just think about people today. With such advanced technology, the quality of the roads and houses they build is far inferior to that of the ancients. The key is that they have no intention. Bar!

After breathing the fresh air and stretching out the tense muscles at Longji, I returned to Water Street to eat rice noodles from another restaurant. Return to the guest house to check out and go to Guilin. On the way through Lingchuan, there were many people selling grapes on the roadside. Many cars stopped to buy, and we also bought. Very fresh and delicious domestic red grapes cost 3 yuan per catty. Their vineyards are on both sides of the road. They cost 6 or 7 yuan in the supermarket.

Go to downtown Guilin (11:30) to see Elephant Trunk Mountain first. Xiangshan is right at the intersection of the Li River and the Taohua River. You could have seen elephants standing on the roadside, but in order to collect the entrance fee, large trees and bamboos were planted all around. If you don't spend 25 yuan, you can't even think about it. See. There is no discount for the elderly, only the elderly in Guilin. It seems that Xiangshan is not a nationally rated 4A scenic spot, but just a garden for Guilin people.

Finding a place to stay, the "Oasis Hotel" that LG found online was quite good. Although it was a backpacker's hotel, the rooms were spacious and clean, giving you the enjoyment of a three-star hotel. My parents-in-law also said it was comfortable. 100 yuan/room.

You can still rest after lunch and go out for a walk around 5 o'clock. See the Sun and Moon Twin Towers (also called Yuanyang Towers) and visit the Zhengyang Road Pedestrian Street. After walking along Zhengyang Road, I saw a yellow gatehouse hidden among the green trees not far away. I thought it was Jingjiang Royal City, so I walked over to take a look. Pass through a city gate first, and the tall Wangcheng Gate Tower stands there. Although there is a sign of "Guangxi Normal University" hanging on the side, the ticket office is listed in the middle, 50 yuan/person! We didn't plan to see this royal city, but we saw the side door was wide open, and students and cars were bustling in and out. Although there was a security guard guarding the door, they didn't check every student. We installed our cameras and walked in separately as if nothing had happened, without even looking at the security guard. Sure enough, everything was fine. We saved the entrance fee, so happy! Look at the Husband and Wife Tree, Fuquan, and Duxiu Peak in the distance, take a few photos, and then you are out. Because my father-in-law was not feeling well, he didn’t go much further. Who knew that after walking out of the door and looking at the billboard on the other side, I realized that there was something to see under Duxiu Peak, including stone carvings, the source of "Guilin's landscapes are the best in the world", and a natural cave... LG laughed and said that after entering Baoshan and returning empty-handed, he told me to take good care of myself and wait until the expressway is opened before entering as a student.

For dinner at the intersection of the Normal College, I had mutton boiled in water. I didn’t expect that the mutton would be more delicious this way, not smelly at all, and not expensive at 28 yuan/jin. (Afterwards, it suddenly occurred to me that the original meaning of the word "fresh" refers to the taste of mutton.) Walking back to the hotel, I visited the Lighting Night Market on Zhongshan Road and bought three ethnic small bags. I wanted to buy some specialties, but those ginkgo and monk fruit were expensive in shopping malls and supermarkets, so I gave up and bought them on the roadside on my way back.

The seventh day, Thursday. Get up at 6 o'clock, buy bread and milk at the Xicheng intersection, find a good place in the suburbs of Guilin, and have breakfast facing the strange-shaped hills (more expensive than eating rice noodles). At 8:33, I returned to Yangshuo and walked to Welfare. I bought ginkgo at the farmer's market for 4 yuan/pack (250 grams), which cost 14 yuan in the supermarket. There were also monk fruit, 1 yuan/piece, and 6 pieces/15 yuan in the supermarket. OK, no regrets, and happy to save money! We drove all the way to Xindu (13:00) and first found a restaurant full of Cantonese cars parked outside, and we went there happily. I went in and sat there for a long time, but no one came to say hello to me with tea, so I decided to leave.

I went back to the last hotel and turned in just a little bit. It's not far away. It's called "Yuanrong Hotel". It's next to the Xindu Natural Resources and Land Office. You'll pass by it when going from Huaiji to Hezhou. We ate like we did last time, from 13:20 when we entered the store and sat down to 14:00 when we finished eating and set off, it was fast enough. We didn't take the original route when we went back, but turned to Wuzhou and took Fengkai, which was easier than the Huaiji side of Guangning. Later, we passed through Yunan (18:10) and got on the expressway in Yunfu, traveling at 90/100 kilometers per hour all the way to Foshan (19:31). Dinner at Black Swan on Fenjiang Road and return home at 20:30, ending the happy trip!

Let me talk about the cost of this trip to Guilin for your reference: a seven-day trip for four people, covering 1,636 kilometers by car. The relatively large expenses include meals of 1,286.40 yuan, accommodation of 960 yuan, and travel expenses of 405 yuan (including 121 yuan on the first day, 192 yuan on the 7th day) + fine of 200 yuan = 605 yuan, attraction ticket (rafting) fee 712 yuan, gas fee about 770 yuan (Guangxi 97 costs 5.45 yuan), plus other miscellaneous expenses, photos Fees and other expenses are about 4,800 yuan.

The last thing I want to say is, if you can go to a place more conveniently, don’t join a tour group! ! !