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"Poetic Journey through Mountains and Rivers: A Luxurious 5-Day Tour of Guilin and Yangshuo - Bamboo Raft on Li River + Elephant Trunk Hill + Jingjiang King's City at Duxiu Peak + Dongli Ancient Village + Hike in Dahebei + Bamboo Raft on Yulong River + Afternoon Tea at Guihai Qinglan + Fishing Boats Singing in the Evening"

Destination Place

Guilin

Travel Days

5 days

Highlights

  • Guilin’s mountains and waters are the finest under heaven; gliding along the Li River feels like wandering through a painting.

  • Lijiang River Peninsula – Hike at Dahebei, become a rare guest of the Lijiang River~

  • Only This Green, Painting a Poetic Landscape — Yulong River Bamboo Raft

Itinerary

Day1
Guilin
Arriving in Guilin, arrange the pick up/stop according to the arrival time and go to the hotel to rest. You can move freely based on your arrival time. Today I live in downtown Guilin.
[Today's car only includes pick-up]
Day2
Guilin
After breakfast, visit [Duxiu Peak Royal City Scenic Area], where you can learn about the history of Guilin and the origin of Duxiu Peak Royal City Scenic Area. Climb to the peak of Duxiu Peak and you can also have a panoramic view of Guilin City.

In the afternoon, visit [Elephant Trunk Mountain], which represents Guilin's landscape and the symbol of Guilin City. The central pattern of the city emblem of Guilin City is Xiangshan.

After that, we will head to [Guihai Qinglan]. The Guihai Qinglan Scenic Area has art and culture as its core and relies on its unique natural scenery.[Afternoon Tea] is specially arranged here for you to enjoy a leisurely afternoon tea time! After the tour, I went back to the hotel to rest and stayed in Guilin today.
3 Attractions
  • elephant trunk Hill

    elephant trunk Hill

    Guilin Elephant Trunk Mountain is the city emblem mountain in Guilin, located at the confluence of the Li River and Taohua River. It is named because the mountain is shaped like an elephant stretching its nose to drink the river. The water-moon cave between the elephant's trunk and its legs has water flowing through it, like a bright moon floating on water. There are also landscapes such as Puxian Tower and Yunfeng Temple, which combine natural beauty and cultural heritage and are symbols of Guilin's tourism.

  • Duxiu Peak Wangcheng Scenic Area

    Duxiu Peak Wangcheng Scenic Area

    Duxiu Peak Wangcheng Scenic Area is the birthplace of Guilin's city and the existing and intact ruins of vassal kings in my country. Within the magnificent city wall of Jingjiang Palace, there are the isolated peaks and cliffs of the "Nantian Pillar" and the Spring and Autumn of the 600-year residence. Climbing the summit, you can overlook the city view of Guilin; walking through the royal city, you can touch the stone steps of the Ming Dynasty. This is not only a natural wonder, but also a readable historical book, closely connecting the origin of "Guilin's mountains and rivers are the best in the world" with the urban context.

  • Guihai Qinglan

    Guihai Qinglan

    Guihai Qinglan-a new online celebrity scenic spot in Guilin City, attracts groups of visitors to meet and come here to taste art, enjoy mountains and rivers, and negotiate aesthetics. Free riding, artistic sketching, picnic time, and hiking walks, Guihai Qinglan integrates life into nature. Whether adults or children are immersed in joy, feel the openness and tranquility reflected by mountains and rivers, and enjoy the leisurely suburbs of the city. vacation.

1 Experiences
  • Guihai Qinglan Afternoon Tea

    Guihai Qinglan Afternoon Tea

    Relying on its unique natural scenery, Guihai Qinglan creates a leisure and vacation complex with art and culture as its core, and enjoys leisurely afternoon tea here. [Picture is for reference only]

Day3
Guilin-Lingchuan-Yangshuo
After breakfast, take a bus to visit Dongli Ancient Village (about 1 hour's drive). It is not only a living Lijiang traditional cultural and artistic village, but also a wild luxury pastoral life complex that can provide immersive humanistic experience. Here, we have arranged [Door Hairpin Rubbing Paper Fan],[Pulling Yuba and Drinking Soymilk], and [Handmade Fortune Cakes] handicraft experience activities to spend a happy parent-child time ~

After the tour, head to Yangshuo (about 1 hour's drive). In the afternoon, go to the "Yulong River", which is also known as the "Little Li River" and take a bamboo raft rafting. The bamboo raft drifts along the Yulong River. The green mountains and green trees on both sides are picturesque, which is intoxicating.

Afterwards, we arranged a ride on the "Yangshuo Shili Gallery"(it is not actually a scenic spot, it is a road). Along the road, there are beautiful peaks and pastoral scenery. Many rocks and rocks have unique shapes that give people daydream, like poems and picturesque, like admiring a slowly unfolding long scroll of China landscape paintings.

At night, you can stroll around "Yangshuo West Street". It is a cultural landmark in Yangshuo and a veritable "global village" and "foreign street". The streets and alleys are filled with the aroma of various delicacies, making people salivate. After the tour, I went back to the hotel to rest and stayed in Yangshuo today.
2 Attractions
  • Dongligu Village

    Dongligu Village

    Dongli Ancient Village is both a living showcase of Lijiang River’s traditional culture and arts, and a rustic-luxury rural lifestyle complex that offers immersive cultural experiences. Guided by Chinese traditional culture and Eastern aesthetics of daily life, it is committed to rural revitalization. Over the past decade, it has cultivated an idyllic, poetic way of life reminiscent of a utopian retreat, embodying a return to simplicity where “you can see the mountains, behold the waters, and keep your nostalgic ties to home alive.”

  • Yangshuo West Street

    Yangshuo West Street

    With a history spanning over 1,400 years, West Street is the oldest and most bustling thoroughfare in Yangshuo. Its architecture exudes timeless charm, preserving the distinctive style of northern Guangxi from the Ming and Qing dynasties. Once known as “Foreigner Street” for its blend of Chinese and international cultures, it is now lined with bars and restaurants that light up the night with vibrant energy and lively crowds, making it an ideal spot to experience the authentic local atmosphere of Yangshuo.

5 Experiences
  • Yulong River Double Raft

    Yulong River Double Raft

    The Yulong River is crystal clear and the water flows gently.The green mountains on both sides of the river are reflected in the green water, forming a picturesque scenery.Taking a two-person raft down the river, as if you were in a flowing landscape painting, let people feel the "boat on the blue waves, people in the middle of the painting" comfortable.

  • Shili Gallery Cycling

    Shili Gallery Cycling

    Shili Gallery is a scenic belt on National Highway 321 in the south of Yangshuo. There are rolling mountains on both sides of the road and picturesque scenery. This section of the Shili Gallery is all asphalt roads. Many people choose to visit by bicycle. It feels great to step on the pedals of bicycles briskly and watch the roadside scenery in the fresh air.

  • Pull tofu bamboo and drink soy milk

    Pull tofu bamboo and drink soy milk

    Southern style tofu emphasizes: plaster is stewed, one thing reduces another thing, and bitched tofu is stewed; tofu is not only delicious but also healthy. It has the effects of relaxing the middle and replenishing qi, regulating the spleen and stomach, and clearing heat and dispelling blood.

  • Door hairpin rubbing-printed paper fan

    Door hairpin rubbing-printed paper fan

    Understand the traditional door hairpin culture in China, learn traditional rubbings techniques and techniques, make the rubbings into fans, and create your own rubbings cultural and creative works

  • Tie-dyed handkerchief or small backpack

    Tie-dyed handkerchief or small backpack

    Understand plant dyes, zero-basic explanation of ancient plant dyeing + practical operation of techniques (monochrome tie-dyeing)

Day4
Yangshuo
After breakfast, head to [Dahebei Village]. This is the Lijiang Peninsula surrounded by water on three sides and mountains on the other. It is surrounded by mountains and rivers. Stroll leisurely along Huandao Road, you can see the beautiful Lijiang River and the antique old streets of Xingping on the other side.

After the tour, take the ferry to Xingping Wharf and go to [Xingping Ancient Town] for shopping and eating. The ancient town of Xingping is built next to the water. The Li River flows around here to Yangshuo. The ancient town on Shiban Street has lush green mountains and several cottages.

In the afternoon, take a bamboo raft to visit the "Essence Section of the Li River"(electric raft). The mountains of the Li River reflect, the boat rises on the top of the green mountain, people are swimming in the paintings, and ink paintings come into your eyes.

Watch the performance of "Impression·Sister Liu" at night. It is the world's largest real-life landscape theater composed of two kilometers of Lijiang River waters, 12 background peaks, and a vast sky. It combines Liu Sanjie's classic folk songs, ethnic customs, Lijiang River fishing fires and other elements. Innovative combination, integrated into the mountains and rivers without trace, and restored to nature.

After watching the performance, I returned to the hotel to rest and stayed in Yangshuo today.
2 Attractions
  • Dahebei Village  walking

    Dahebei Village walking

  • Xingping Ancient Town

    Xingping Ancient Town

    Xingping Ancient Town sits on the east bank of the Li River, where the waterway winds and turns. By the pier, fishing boats and karst peaks frame a classic Chinese landscape painting. In contrast to the bustling West Street, Xingping is rustic and time-worn; its smooth bluestone slabs reveal Yangshuo’s authentic charm. Strolling through the ancient town, you can feel both the texture of history and the poetry of nature, savoring the everyday ease and grace of life along the Li River.

2 Experiences
  • Lijiang River Bamboo Raft (Xingping Section)

    Lijiang River Bamboo Raft (Xingping Section)

    The Xingping section of the Li River bamboo raft tour is located in Yangshuo and has always been regarded as the essence of Guilin's landscape. There has long been a local saying that "Yangshuo's mountains and rivers dominate Guilin, and Yangshuo is more beautiful in Xingping." Throughout the ages, Xingping's beautiful mountains, rivers and waters have attracted countless literati to be intoxicated.

  • homebound fishermen

    homebound fishermen

    Yangshuo Fishing Boat Singing Night is a cultural and folk landscape in Yangshuo with a thousand-year history. Fishermen fish at night, several bamboo rafts are mobilized, and fishing fires shuttle like fireflies flying, complementing the landscape of the Li River.

Day5
Yangshuo-Guilin
After breakfast, arrange a drop-off/stop at the right time to end the pleasant trip to Guilin ~