Yangshuo Scenery

Yangshuo, 65 kilometres southeast Guilin, is a county (population 300,000) directly under its jurisdiction. It is located in the upper reaches of Gui River and Li River runs through it. The county sits on a typical karst topography where there are green mountains and jade-like streams everywhere. The scenery along the Li River is superd, and a traveler of the Ming Dynasty Xu Xiake (1586-1641) described it as "the land of green lotus and jade-colour bamboo shoots." Yangshuo boosts four major scenic areas with over 20 scenic spots, each with its own peculiarity. Furthermore, the landscape changes colors and looks as the season and the day change, and gives different tastes in different weather. Of interest to visitors are Green Lotus Peak, Yangshuo Park, Mount Painting, and Mount Moon. There is a very popular saying: "guilin's scenes are the finest under Heaven, but Yangshuo's are still better." It is a very popular travelers' destination in its own right and certainly a good place to live and work, with a diversity of opportunity. The town draws millions of visitors form both home and abroad. Undeniably, to live in Yangshuo is to be a lover of mountains, which is not to say that all the people of Yangshuo spend their leisure hours gallivanting among the forests of the high country.