A river winding between hundreds of tall limestone karst peaks, the landscape on China's 20-yuan note. Cruise from Guilin to Yangshuo, about 4 to 5 hours, or take a bamboo raft on a shorter stretch.
Yangshuo is a base for cycling through rice fields and villages along the Yulong River, rock climbing, and climbing Moon Hill. Nearby, the Longji rice terraces climb the mountainsides. Guilin has high-speed trains to major cities.
Thousands of towering sandstone pillars rising from forested valleys, often wrapped in mist, which inspired the floating mountains in the film Avatar.
Huge round and square earthen houses built by the Hakka people from the 12th century, each home to a whole clan, with rooms around a central courtyar…
The world's largest stone Buddha, 71 m tall, carved into a red sandstone cliff where three rivers meet, in the 8th century.
A research and breeding centre for giant pandas in a large bamboo park in Chengdu, where you can see adult pandas, cubs and red pandas.
A village of white-walled Huizhou houses with black-tiled roofs, built around a half-moon pond and a lake that reflect the houses, with water channel…
A range of granite peaks rising above a sea of clouds, with twisted pine trees growing from the rocks, which inspired centuries of Chinese painting a…
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