Discover Your Way

The first hours go to the Longji terraces, walking the Pingan section where stacked paddies fall in curves from the summit down to the valley floor.

Below the shelves sits huangluo red yao village, home of the long-haired Yao women, with indigo dress, silver ornaments and headscarf customs explained.

Near town a light-rail tram carries you to crown cave guilin, a Li River cavern with an underground river exit, stalactites lit along a paved loop.

North of Guilin sits daxu ancient town, a once-busy river port of timber houses and arch bridges where your guide reads the clan-hall carvings.

The morning is an yangshuo via ferrata guilin ascent, steel rungs and cable bolted to a karst wall, clipped in and guided with ledges above the valley.

Halfway the route pauses on the crux platform, the whole yangshuo adventure day opening below - ridges, river bends and farmland spreading to the horizon.

The day starts on the ruyi peak cable car, a glass-floored gondola lifting you over treetops to the summit station and the start of the cliff walk.

At the top you cross the yangshuo ruyi peak glass bridge, a transparent span on the cliff edge framing the karst basin straight down through the floor.

The trip climbs to the Li River Source Grand Canyon, where the river rises in a wooded gorge of linked pools, clefts and stepped falls below the summit peak.

On a li river source grand canyon walk you follow plank paths beside emerald water, the gorge narrowing under old forest and cool mist off the rocks.