Top Family Activities in Guilin

Guilin is located in the northeastern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of China. As long as mentioning Guilin, a world-famous honorable reputation about this city will come into mind soon, which is ‘The landscape in Guilin is the best under heaven’.

Without any doubt, Guilin is one of the most popular tourist destinations not only in China but also all over the world. It boasts second to none beautiful natural sceneries, extremely well-known for its unique karst landform, as well as charming cultures. And the top-visited attractions in Guilin include Li River Cruise, Reed Flute Cave, Elephant Trunk Hill, Dragon Back Rice Terrace, and West Street etc. Then, how about a family visit? Are there some special family activities in Guilin? We will offer you some top ones as follows.

Li River Cruise

With a total length of 426 kilometers, Li River is located in northeast of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, flowing through Guilin City, Yangshuo County and some other places. It is commonly well-known that every scene of the Li River is a typical Chinese ink painting.

For a Li River Cruise, the around 63 kilometers long Guilin-Yangshuo part is the best and most visited one. Enjoy a Li River Cruise together with your family members, to relax yourself totally in a world of crystal clear water and eye-catching sceneries on both sides. Futhermore, as the largest and most beautiful karst landscape tourist area in the world, Li River is also noted for its ‘Four Wonders’, which is beautiful mountains, clear water, peculiar caves and charming stones respectively.

Guilin Picturesque Natural Beauties Enjoying

Guilin boasts second to none natural beauties under heaven. Visit this picturesque city together with other members of your family, why not choose these top representative ones for a visit?

● Reed Flute Cave: Located northwestern Guilin City, Reed Flute Cave is honored as ‘the Art Palace of Nature’. Besides peculiar stalagmites, stalactites, and stalagnates, it is also famous for over 77 mural paintings of past dynasties from 792.
● Elephant Trunk Hill: the symbol of Guilin.
● Diecai Hill: located in the north of Guilin city centre, it is honored as ‘the confluence of beautiful sceneries’.

Yangshuo West Street Strolling and Shopping

West Street is a pedestrian street in Yangshuo County of Guilin, which is also known as Yangshuo New West Street. In addition, commonly, there is lots of foreigners can be found here, hence, a nickname- Foreigner Street.

Paved with slabstones, West Street has a history of one thousand years. Strolling together with your family members here, you will be amazed firstly, since it is an only hundreds meters long ancient street, but gathers nearly hundreds of shops, bars, cafes and restaurants etc. Then, you will be attracted by not only the traditional Chinese folklore but a familiar strong flavor of western life. What’s more, there are kinds of tourist souvenirs for you to go shopping. Maybe your kids are interested in batik, seal and Chinese calligraphy etc.

Yangshuo Countryside Cycling

Yangshuo is a wonderland to get close to the nature, with fresh air, clean rivers passing by as well as real countryside sceneries. Today, Yangshuo countryside cycling has become one of the top activities to do while touring in Yangshuo. On your way, sometimes, you can find the local people working in rice paddy fields. It would be great if you have choice to chat with them simply or visit their house. This may be more interesting together with your kids. Of course, if you would like to make your trip more relaxing, you also can hire an electric car to enjoy unique charming Yangshuo.

See Giant Pandas

Generally speaking, kids are animal-lovers. They are good friends. While touring in China, especially with children, there is no reason to omit China’s national treasure-giant pandas.

Seven Star Park is located on eastern bank of Li River in Guilin, which is 1.5 kilometers from Guilin city centre. It is the largest, most popular and oldest comprehensive park in Guilin. Guilin Zoo is just within this park. There are many precious animals can be found here, such as white-cheeked gibbon, golden monkey, and peacocks etc. And giant panda is the animal super-star of them.

Local Folk Shows Appreciating-Impression Liusanjie

While touring in Guilin, local folk shows appreciating has become very popular, especially at night. Among them, Impression Liusanjie is the most famous one. It is a kind of musical show at night, which is directed by Chinese famous director-Zhang Yimou.

Impression Liusanjie is honored as ‘the first realistic performance with a new concept in the world’. Its stage is the Li River, and its casts are mostly fishermen from the five villages along the river. The show of Impression Liusanjie is glorious, colorful as well as musical since it gathers songs, stage lightings, featured costumes, and charming legend together.

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