Guides
The decisions a listing will not make for you. Which valley. Which hour. Whether you need a tour at all, what the ticket really costs, and which week of the harvest to aim for.
Between them these five cover the whole of the planning. If you want the practical version instead — ticket prices, gate hours, what to wear — that is on the visiting page, and the routes up from Guilin are on getting there.
One ticket covers both and almost every tour picks one for you. They are two different days: seventeen kilometres in against twenty-three, a half-hour climb against a cable car, and the postcard against the bigger, emptier bowl.
Read the guide →Three operators publish a real clock rather than a paragraph, and the shape of the day is the same on all of them: two and a half hours out, five or six on the hill, two and a half back. Here is where each of those hours goes.
Read the guide →Buses leave Guilin from half past six in the morning and the gate ticket is eighty yuan, so nobody needs a tour to stand on the ridge. What a tour buys is the twenty-three kilometres past the gate, and somebody who knows which path is which.
Read the guide →The gate ticket is eighty yuan and it is a three-day pass across all four villages. The shuttle, the buggy, the cable car and the long-hair performance are each charged separately, and that is where the guesswork starts.
Read the guide →The gold lasts a few weeks and the exact weeks move with the weather and the altitude. Week by week through the season, plus the three other windows that are worth the drive and cost a third of the crowd.
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