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Qingxiu Mountain

The Qingxiu Mountain, is a national AAAA level scenic spot honored as the the 'green lung' of Nanning. With majestic hills and peaks, green trees and beautiful scenes, it was among the eight famous scenes in Nanning.  In the area, ridges and peaks are rising and falling, moun...

The Qingxiu Mountain, is a national AAAA level scenic spot honored as the the 'green lung' of Nanning. With majestic hills and peaks, green trees and beautiful scenes, it was among the eight famous scenes in Nanning.  In the area, ridges and peaks are rising and falling, mountains and hills are green, spring is clear and rocks are wonderful, it is famous for mountains not high but beautiful, waters not deep but clear.As a key spot for development and exploration in Nanning, Qingxiu Mountain has been under construction. Besides some old relics like the Dong Spring, Carving on the Jieqing cliff and Shixiang Shrine still keep preserving and repairing, new spots like the Tropical Rain Forest Park, the Palm Park and the Thai Park are built. The last one is designed by architects from Thailand, as a spot built in the project of cultural communication between Nanning city and Khon Kaen city in Thailand. Since the garden is of Thailand style, visitors can experience for themselves the exotic favor here. Also, the newly built gate is unique and magnificient, which attributes a lot to the scenic spot.

bus No. 10  at the entrance

Yangshuo Cuiping Hill (Wuzhi Hill)

Yangshuo Wuzhi Hill or Cuiping hill - A wonderful view point for tourists to overlook fascinating Karst Landform!

 

Yangshuo Wuzhi hill is situated at Cuping village,Putao town,Yangshuo county, The charming tortoise river just winds through Wuzhi hill, The confluence just pr...

Yangshuo Wuzhi Hill or Cuiping hill - A wonderful view point for tourists to overlook fascinating Karst Landform!

 

Yangshuo Wuzhi hill is situated at Cuping village,Putao town,Yangshuo county, The charming tortoise river just winds through Wuzhi hill, The confluence just presents in the front of tortoise river. Be surrounded by the nearby towering Karst peaks, villages, rice fields, orchards,fish pond etc. The hilltop of Wuzhi hill provide a perfect panoramic platform to overlook the fascinating Karst Landform as well as the idyllic countryside scenery.

Wuzhi hill has an elevation of 200meters above the sea level, Recently, The local people built a paved stone steps connect to the hilltop from the bottom. Tourists may takes about 20minutes to climb up to the hilltop along the stone steps. Once reached the hilltop, Tourists could have a bird’s-eye view of the stunning Karst landform from there. It’s also a very popular spot for the photographers to photograph the sunset pictures. Normally, The best time to photograph sunset pictures from Wuzhi hill is between May and Oct!

If you are interested in overlooking the beautiful Karst Landform from a high position or you are looking forward to photograph the amazing sunset pictures. Then, Yangshuo Wuzhi hill is a good place to go!

How to get there?
1. you can take the express bus from Guilin or Yangshuo to get to Putao town firstly, Then you can hire the local motorbike carrier to take you to there.
2. If you are staying at Yangshuo town, you can ride a motorbike Or bicycle to get there.
3. You can take a taxi to get there from Guilin city or Yangshuo town

 

 

Dazhai Rice Terrace Hiking Routes

Longji Rice Terrace Field (Dragon Back Terrace) in Guilin is more and more popular to visitors from all over the world; it has been built in the mountains altitude 300m to 1100m year by year within 700 years till now. It has 13 villages and two minority nationalities stay here, they are Zhuang an...

Longji Rice Terrace Field (Dragon Back Terrace) in Guilin is more and more popular to visitors from all over the world; it has been built in the mountains altitude 300m to 1100m year by year within 700 years till now. It has 13 villages and two minority nationalities stay here, they are Zhuang and Yao people. Dazhai is one of the 13 villages; its residents are Red Yao people, a branch of Yao minority nationality. They are called Red Yao because of their clothing - red coat and black pleated skirt is their representative dressing. The 66-square-km network irrigation project was began by the ethnic Yao people in the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), and finished by the Qing (1644-1911).

If one has one or two nights spend in Longsheng, Jinkeng(Dazhai village) is absolutely the best village to visit. As of 2014, it is the one and only village with cable cars and it is very large as is the scale of terraces.The entrances to the village and to the ticket booth for the cable cars are both near the parking lot. Upon entering the gate, one needs to cover a short distance away there is a wind rain bridge. Go across the bridge and the climbing starts.

There are three viewpoints. The viewpoint #3 is the arrival place of cable cars, offering a nice panorama view. While climbing up to the viewpoint #3, hikers will pass viewpoint #1 and viewpoint #2, in which different views are offered for photography. One and a half hours to two hours are needed if hiking from the bottom to the mountaintop.
Another mountaintop which is a bit higher up called Tiantou Zhai also offers and awesome view and requires two-hours of climbing time. Photographers can take good pictures there from different angles.