The beautiful Yangshou  countryside in Yangshou different villages . Rice fields,old house,rivers,landscape cover most of areas. Yulong river is one of pretty place to visit.

    Tourists can take a bicycle to get there and enjoy the half day countryside biking .To look for the beautiful countryside that you need the guide shows you,it worths !

The reputation of Guangxi mostly originates from a city called Guilin. Guilin is definitely known by all Chinese since there is a pervasive description written in every textbook for primary school in China---”桂林山水甲天下”, It means “Mountains and waters of Guilin are best under heaven.” Even before tourism became a business all over China, Guilin had been selected in the list of cities which could represent wonderful China. It is one of the earliest sightseeing city open to the world.Now Guilin is famous internationally, most of the travelers would hear of it before coming to China, and for the first-time visitor to China, Guilin is alway recommended to be the top priority by travelers. The Chinese traditional painting-like scenery with the atmosphere of ancient poems in Guilin would show you a classic picture of old China.

Guilin is known for the fabulous Karst (limestone) topography, it not only own the large amount of limestone mountains,But also has the well developed Karst topography. Such as the isolated Karst Peaks,Peak cluster depression and Peak forest. Li river is considered as Guilin’s mother river, It originates the primitive forest of the northern Guilin. It winds through Guilin territory from the north to the south. So,Li river is the essence of Guilin landscape. Almost 60% limestone formed mountains are situated alongside the Li river valley. In order to have a bird’s eye view of these stunning Karst mountains,You need to climb up to a hilltop,Then you can have a fabulous panoramic view of Li river valley surrounded by the numerous Karst mountains. 

Xianggong hill is located in the middle of the most beautiful part of Li river scenic area. It has an elevation of 200meters and with a straight height of 50meters. Its hilltop provides a wonderful panoramic view of Li river valley. It’s used to be a famous spot for shooting the sunrise of Li river among the local photographers. Due to its advantaged location and the recommendation of visited tourists at home and abroad. Xianggong hill now has become a very popular view point for tourists who wants to overlook amazing Li river landscape. It displays different scenery with different weather condition. Normally, It’s nice to see Li river landscape from the top of Xianggong hill during April and Oct every year.

Xianggong hill scenic spot is now managed by a local village chief Mr.Zhao and his son. They spent two years to build a paved stone steps from the bottom to the top of Xianggong hill. Tourists could spend about 15minutes climb up to the hilltop along these stone steps. They charged an entrance fee of 50RMB for the way up to the hilltop which is worthwhile.Xianggong hill is still the first choice to capture wonderful sunrise of Li river as long as the weather condition is pretty good.

How to get to Xianggong hill?

As Xianggong hill is located at an isolated village in the mountain area. There is no direct bus to get there neither Guilin nor Yangshuo town. Hire a taxi to get there could be the best solution if you stay at Yangshuo town or Guilin city. It’s about 28Km and 50minutes drive from Yangshuo town. It’s about 55Km and 1hour and 20minues drive from Guilin city.

The several routes of cycling tour in countryside outside of Yangshuo town were created myself. I've consulted with many cycling enthusiasts and used my own knowledge to plan the best routes. 

To ride bicycle on paths through paddies, villages, karst peaks, or along river, you could stop anywhere to enjoy landscape, crops, farmers and buffalos working ... ...

    Please follow my camera to the famous national preserved Sanjiang  ChengYang Shelter bridge was built in 1912, 64.4 meters' long,3.4meters'wide,10.6meters' high. The whole bridge only uses wood as key material and stones as the  foundation. The amazing things are: 1, There aren't any nails in the whole bridge construction. 2, The bridge has not much changing ,it still keeps very well till now !     

        The  local Dong minority people going in and out the village from the bridge only, there are 8 tribes inside. It's so important way for villagers.       

        Classical pictures are not finished yet, please follow my camera again to China largest Dong minority's village Zhao xing. There are 1,100families  6,000 villagers here, most of them are Dong minorit people. Here is the folk song village, dum buildings,wood houses.....attract lots of tourists to come.....

           The famous national preserve Sanjiang  ChengYang Shelter bridge locates in Liuzhou,99 klms' away from Guilin. Driving by van to there for 2hours .

        You would have the chance to go to the Zhao xing Dong minority's village if you like. To go there by driving another 2 hours.