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Guilin is a world-famous tourist city, one of China's first National Historical and Cultural Cities, and an excellent tourism city in China. Its landscapes are renowned worldwide, earning it the reputation of "Guilin's landscapes are the best under heaven" for thousands of years.

Located in the northeast of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, Guilin is the largest airport in Guangxi and the political, economic, cultural, and transportation center of the northeastern Guangxi region. It borders Hunan and Guizhou to the north, connects with Liuzhou City to the west and south, and adjoins Hezhou City to the east. It is a hilly and mountainous area with typical karst landforms. The limestone across the city, weathered and eroded over millions of years, has created a unique landscape of thousands of peaks standing around, a river embracing the city, fascinating caves, and beautiful rocks.

Guilin has a subtropical climate, mild and with abundant rainfall. The average annual rainfall is 1900 mm, the frost-free period is about 300 days, the average annual sunshine hours exceed 1550, and the average temperature is 19°C. It is neither severely cold in winter nor extremely hot in summer.

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6 Days 5 Nights Self-Guided Tour: Guilin + Longji Rice Terraces + Xingping Lijiang River + Xingping Ancient Town + Silver Cave + Yangshuo West Street + Elephant Trunk Hill

Day 1: Arrive in Guilin city, stay overnight in Guilin.

Upon arrival in Guilin, stay in the city center. You can stroll along the pedestrian shopping street and taste local specialties.

Jinkeng Rice Terraces have been recognized by UNESCO as a world wonder, a marvel of global tourism. The majestic grandeur, the misty mountain peaks, the unique Yao villages, and the colorful customs create a magnificent landscape. It is not only a paradise for photographers from home and abroad but also a world wonder for tourists to enjoy leisure and sightseeing.

Day 3: Xingping Lijiang River scenery + Xingping Ancient Town + Ten Li Gallery + Yulong River Bamboo Rafting, stay overnight in Yangshuo

Xingping Lijiang River scenery: The green bamboo, reflections, and clear waters and green mountains form the highlight of the Lijiang River. After rain, white bands of mist kiss the peaks of Xingping; when the moon rises over the eastern hills, cormorant fishing rafts come and go without a trace. Throughout history, the beautiful mountains and waters have captivated countless poets and writers.

Xingping, nestled among mountains and rivers, is rich in scenery and history. During the Three Kingdoms period, the Eastern Wu established Xiping County here, later renamed Xingping due to the homophonic sound. Xingping Ancient Street is a stone-paved street over 1 kilometer long, stretching from the southeast of Xingping Ancient Town to the Rongshu Pool and ancient ferry pier on the Lijiang River, facilitating travel for residents and merchants.

Yulong River bamboo rafting (multi-person): Here, "it's not the Lijiang but surpasses the Lijiang." You can truly experience the wonderful feeling of "a small bamboo raft floating on the river, with majestic green mountains passing by on both sides."

Day 4: Ethnic Minority Village + Silver Cave + Between Mountains and Waters, stay overnight in Guilin

Experience the ethnic culture of minority groups and feel the ancient, tranquil, and slow-paced life of the villagers. The scenic area features three main themes: ethnic eco-tourism, leisure sightseeing, and cultural experience, scientifically divided into different functional zones, offering cultural experiences, sightseeing experiences, interactive experiences, and other new leisure formats.

Silver Cave is a brilliant pearl among Guilin's tourist attractions, integrating natural and cultural landscapes. The glittering stalactites inside, illuminated by lights, sparkle like treasures. Scenes such as the Music Stone Screen, Moon Palace, Snow Mountain Waterfall, Buddha Preaching, Single Pillar Supporting the Sky, and Mixed Yuan Pearl Umbrella all tell the magnificent craftsmanship of nature.

"Between Mountains and Waters" is a grand and spectacular show, with modern stage design, lighting, and sound creating a three-dimensional and mysterious atmosphere. It fully demonstrates the historical changes, landscape, and humanistic sentiments of the Lijiang River, offering you a truly dreamlike and mysterious journey.

Day 5: Zizhou Island & Elephant Trunk Hill, stay overnight in Guilin.

Elephant Trunk Hill integrates river views and cultural heritage, condensing the essence of Guilin's landscape and history. It is a comprehensive park combining ecology, culture, tourism, and leisure. On Zizhou Island, you can enjoy a 180° view of the most beautiful sub-venue of the Spring Festival Gala, the city emblem of Guilin, the Elephant Trunk Hill, and take in an unbeatable river view. On misty and rainy days, Zizhou Island is shrouded in a veil of clouds and mist, appearing faint and ethereal, like an ink painting full of poetic charm.

Day 6: Sleep in until naturally awake, then transfer to the station and leave Guilin, ending the happy journey.

Main Tourist Attractions in Guilin

Elephant Trunk Hill: Known for its wonder. First, it resembles an elephant in shape and spirit; second, between the trunk and legs, it forms a moon over the water, creating the "Elephant Hill with Water Moon" spectacle. Elephant Trunk Hill is the city emblem of Guilin, located at the confluence of the Lijiang River and Taohua River in the city center. It looks like a giant elephant, with a round cave of about 150 square meters between the trunk and legs. The river flows through the cave, as if the moon is floating on water. The Elephant Hill Water Moon on the west bank contrasts with the Chuanyue Rock on the east bank of the Lijiang River, forming the unique "Lijiang Double Moons" spectacle—one hanging in the sky, the other floating on water.

Lijiang River: The Lijiang River is a typical karst terrain, known as the Hundred-li Lijiang River, Hundred-li Gallery. The pattern on the back of the new 20-yuan RMB note is a section of the Lijiang River landscape. The Lijiang River has different charms in different weather: clear peaks and reflections on sunny days, mist-covered mountains on overcast days, and dreamy rain on rainy days. Main ways to tour the Lijiang River include boat cruises, bamboo rafts, and hiking. Boat cruises are divided into the essence tour, Yangshuo water tour, and city water tour.

Longji Rice Terraces: The Longji Rice Terraces are a massive group of terraced fields in the Guilin area, divided into three parts: Jinkeng Rice Terraces, Ping'an Zhuang Rice Terraces, and Longji Ancient Zhuang Village Rice Terraces. Visiting Longji Rice Terraces mainly involves hiking, viewing, and photography; many photography enthusiasts come specifically for sunrise. You can also taste local farmhouse dishes and experience ethnic minority customs.

Yangshuo West Street: West Street is a combination of food hunting, shopping, and bars. Its richness and diversity make it a unique and beautiful landmark in Yangshuo. The less-than-1km street is paved with stone slabs in a curved S-shape, with ancient and elegant buildings on both sides in the style of the Ming and Qing dynasties in northern Guangxi, featuring small black tiles, sloping roofs, and hanging balconies.

Ten Li Gallery: Composed of Lotus Pond, Swallow Lake, Primitive Tribe, etc., this man-made scenic area combines local rural and mountain-water scenery. Boating on the lake, you can see water-powered trip hammers, wind and rain bridges, and bronze drum towers, and enjoy ethnic dance performances. Hiking allows you to view the clusters of ethnic minority buildings of northern Guangxi and review the ancient cultures of Guangxi minorities, such as wine-making, paper-making, and printing.

Silver Cave: Located in Maling Town, Lipu County, Guilin City, the Silver Cave Scenic and Holiday Resort is convenient in transportation, 85 km from Guilin City and only 18 km from the famous tourist destination Yangshuo. The cave runs through 12 peaks, with a developed tour route of 2,000 meters, divided into three parts: lower cave, hall, and upper cave. There are 28 beautiful and magnificent scenic spots inside the cave. The unique natural landscapes are masterpieces of nature, with colorful and variously shaped stalactites, stalagmites, stone towers, stone curtains, and stone waterfalls, forming a myriad of world karst wonders, praised as "World Karst Wonder."

Integrating natural and cultural landscapes, the area is rich in tourism resources of various types. Natural landscapes mainly include cave landscapes, peak forest and peak cluster landscapes, spring landscapes, and rural scenery. The scenic area has a total of 58 scenic spots, including 30 outside the cave and 28 inside the cave.

Guilin's cuisine is also excellent.

Yangshuo Beer Fish: There are several choices of fish, with significant price differences; the most affordable is usually the Maogu fish. The preparation method generally involves frying the cleaned fish until the skin is crispy and fragrant, then adding vegetables and soy sauce. A distinctive feature is the red color of the beer fish, due to fresh tomatoes and red peppers as main ingredients, which also greatly enhance the flavor. Another feature is that beer fish is cooked not with water but with Yangshuo's Liquan beer!

Lijiang River Shrimp: Stir-fried Lijiang River shrimp uses small river shrimp from the Lijiang River in Yangshuo as the main ingredient. It is characterized by adding local Sanhua liquor during stir-frying, resulting in a crispy texture. The small river shrimp from the Lijiang River grow in a good environment, so the meat is very tender!

Eighteen Stuffed Dishes (Shi Ba Niang): In Yangshuo, there is a saying: "No stuffed dish, no feast." Stuffed dishes are a local traditional specialty, with eighteen classic varieties, thus called Yangshuo's "Eighteen Stuffed Dishes." But actually, there are many more varieties! Stuffed dishes generally use vegetables or bean products as the outer shell, with meat or eggs as the filling. Common Yangshuo stuffed dishes include stuffed snails, stuffed tofu, stuffed eggplant, stuffed bitter gourd, stuffed winter melon, stuffed mushrooms, stuffed peppers, stuffed taro, stuffed loofah, stuffed eggs, stuffed lotus root, stuffed tomatoes, stuffed pumpkin flowers...