Day 1 JingGuanMingLou Hotel: We celebrated our 1 year anniversary in Guilin, stayed our 1st night in a family style small hotel surrounded by mountains and lakes.
We sat on the lakeside for a good picture of sunset, had really great food, rode bikes around rice paddies...
Day 2 Longsheng rice terraces: We took the bus to Longsheng county, get off at Longsheng-Longji crossroad, changed another bus to HuangLuo, a Yao village where the trek to PingAn village and Longsheng rice terraces starts.
Video of trekking on Longsheng rice terraces
ShuiYunJian Hotel, Longsheng: We walked around rice terraces, stayed overnight in GuZhuangZhai village, a place that has not been pulluted by mordern tourism. Hidden in the trail zigzaging thourough rice paddies, this hotel is located in big mountains and rice terraces, seperated from the local homes.
Day 3
3 hours on the road from Longsheng to Yangshuo...
Impression Sanjie Liu is a show directed by chinese mega director, Zhang
Yimou (famous movies - Farewell to My Concubine, Raise the Red Lantern and The
Hero).
Tho location of the show is at Shutong Mountain and the surrounding 12
famous peaks and river are the natural backdrop of this spectacular show. It
boasts hi-tech sound and pyrotechnics.
There are more than 600 casts which are generally acting on the river using
rafts. Buffalos and cormorants are “employed” as their casts too. The story
revolves around the legendary love story between Liu Sanjie (a Zhuang minority
girl) and Ah Niu.
Raincoat is provided together with your entrance ticket in case of drizzling.
If heavy rain, the show will have to be cancelled and you will get a full refund
of your ticket.
There are over 3000 seats in this theatre, and people go to change their Seat Tickets half hour before the show. So highly recommend you to use this Free Guiding Service.
Recommended by someone’s blog, we took the local “sightseeing bus”, it was
Sightseeing bus No. 1, we found the bus sign in front of the NikoNikodo
Department store, on the most busy avenue and shopping area in downtown. On the
sign, the station we boarded was: “Central Square”.
The bus was double-decked, clean and new, passing lots of must-go attractions
in the city, and a bus attendent was introducing something to passengers, in
Chinese…
We got off the bus at Elephant
Hill, climbed the summit of the hill; The second stop was the Fubo
Hill, visited the Thousand-Buddha Cave.
JingGuanMingLou Hotel: We celebrated our 1 year anniversary in Guilin, stayed our 1st night in a family style small hotel surrounded by mountains and lakes.
We sat on the lakeside for a good picture of sunset, had really great food, rode bikes around rice paddies...
