Yangshuo Travel Guide

It is an easy place to reach these days and the Yangshuo Travel Guide will give you all the detailed information you need how to reach the little town by bus, airplane, car or taxi.

The Yulong river, near Yangshuo

The Yangshuo Travel Guide will inform you about all different aspects of Yangshuo, what to do, what to visit, where to stay, the local guides, cafes, what to buy and, of course the local specialties, food and souvenirs. You will find all kinds of activities in Yangshuo: bicycling, swimming and rock climbing amongst others.

We have a great travel map you can print out and use while going around. Take a bicycle and go! Within 5 minutes you are away from the buzz and enjoy the scenery. Travel Yangshuo can not be complete with a bike ride to Moonhill, the legendary rock a few kilometers south of Yangshuo.

Other small villages in the area are worth a visit, while the bigger towns like Puyi, Liuzhou and for example Zhongshan are not worth a visit at all. Check for example Longsheng, Sanjiang and Zhaoxing with the rice terraces and Dong minority villages.

Over the years, in fact since the early 80's Yangshuo was a popular travel destination for mostly backpackers. One could say the backpackers paved the way for the organized tour groups that visit Yangshuo nowadays too. But even though Yangshuo has developed and West Street is no longer a dirt street but a buzzing street with cafe's, bars and souvenir shops, it is still surprisingly local in feel.

As a start you may want to have a look at the map of Yangshuo. I find this always a big help as it tells me where I am and what there is. There is even a map of Xingping available.

Local guides, let me introduce Jessie Lu

Some people find it easy to use a local guide. Yangshuo has an abundance of local guides but as it goes, many only offer very few tours (some do Moonhill only because they don't know more!), some hardly speak English and provide service which personally I don't like.

With Jessie Lu I found a guide who does know the area from A to Z, speaks (and writes) good English, is good company and is able to organize for you so you will have a pleasant journey.

You can read more about Jessie here and review her tours she operates here. Pay good attention to Jessie's tours as she offers things only a privileged few local guides do and even fewer tourist ever do.

So, let's use the Yangshuo travel guide to explore Yangshuo, Guilin and all those other little villages in the area where even today few people come.

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