Guilin Travel Tips From Lonely Planet

Guilin Private Tours mainly specializes in tours around Guilin Yangshuo area. We cater to the needs of individual tourists as well as small tour groups including families, friends and business colleagues. Tourists can experience the main attractions offered by Guilin Yangshuo Longji Rice Terraces and Guizhou Minority area, as well as places and activities not normally offered to tourists. We can customize private tours, tour itineraries and tour packages to meet your specific travel needs.

Yangshuo Guilin is a must-visit travel destination in your lifetime.

Li River is reputed as one of top 10 watery wonders by the National Geographic Book.

Day 1: Be met at the airport and transferred to your hotel Stay in Guilin.

Day 2: Guilin- Longsheng Longji Rice Terraces. Stay overnight in Pingan Village.

Meet you at your hotel at about 9 am, about 2 and half hour ride to Longji ( Dragon's Backbone) Terrace rice which looks like great chains or ribbons as they wind from the foot to the top of the hill.

Day 3: Drive to Ziyuan Town, Stay overnight in Ziyuan town.

Cruise in Zi River, it is different from Li River, you will feel very excited as well as feast your eyes on the unique landscape. You will enjoy the white water drift down the Zijiang River with its 45 shoals and 31bends. Over 60 scenic spots are distributed along the river, it takes you about 2 and 3 hours.

Day 4: Explore the Eight Angle Mountain in the morning , it got its name from the eight peaks of the mountain range look like warped angel. Here you can enjoy the queerness of mountains, the scenery here is quite different from the scenery in the other parts within the big circle of tourism in Great Guilin. The shapes and images of stone here are very peculiar. After arduous climbing to the top of the hill you will get a breathtaking panoramic view of the countryside and rivers.

Day 5: Drive back to Guilin and stay overnight there. ( around 3 hours ride)

Day 6: Li River Cruise Guilin-Yangshuo

Stay in Yangshuo

Be met from your hotel at about 8 am and transferred to Zhujiang pier at about 9 am. Li River cruise (4 hours) to Yangshuo with lunch on board, you will feast your eyes with the most beautiful limestone Karst towering pinnacles, Disembark at Yangshuo about 2 pm.

Walking in the west street and downtown on your own in the afternoon.