135 verified places across Guilin, the Li River and Yangshuo, with 2026 prices · no Eater coverage
Tap a route and it gets drawn on the map, stop by stop.
Tap a pin to see photos, rating and how to get there by city bus, ride-hailing taxi, Li River cruise and bike in Yangshuo. Turn on a route to follow the numbered path.
This interactive map of Guilin (China) brings together 135 hand-picked places: 45 attractions, 42 restaurants, 26 cafés and 22 shops. It also includes 5 walking routes with their stops in order. For every place you get what it is, a practical tip and how to get there by public transport. It is free, works on your phone and needs no sign-up.
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7 stops · 3.4 km · ~5 h · start 08:00, book the Elephant the night before · 7 stops
6 stops · 5.1 km · ~6 h · start 06:30 at Diecai, which opens first · 6 stops
6 stops · raft leg · ~6 h · the cheap alternative to the big cruise · 6 stops
7 stops · ~22 km by bike · all day · check the brakes before you set off · 7 stops
6 stops · 2.8 km · ~4 h · start 07:00, the noodles are breakfast · 6 stops
象鼻山 · Xiangshan, Guilin
A limestone crag dipping its trunk into the Li River and leaving a water arch beneath it: the city's emblem since 1995.
Tip: Getting in costs nothing, but without a booking you do not get in: it is released at 08:00 the day before and covers the following 7 days, with a quota and 3 tickets per phone. Book it from your phone before you arrive.
🚇 象山公园 stop (lines 16, 23) · 5 min walk
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Show on map水月洞 · Xiangshan, Guilin
The arch the elephant's trunk forms: when the river is still, the gap and its reflection close into a perfect moon.
Tip: The circle only closes on glassy water. Go early, before the day's boats start up.
🚇 象山公园 stop (lines 16, 23) · 6 min walk
Featured in: Xiangshan Park
Show on map芦笛岩 · Ludi, Guilin
Stalactites, columns and stone curtains lit in colour inside the hill: they call it nature's palace of art.
Tip: From July to December it opens 08:00-17:30, but the 4D show stops between 12:00 and 13:00: do not turn up right then. Buses 3 and 58 drop you at the gate.
🚇 芦笛岩上站 station · 1 min walk
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Show on map七星岩 · Qixing, Guilin
A route of over a kilometre carved into the rock, with chambers whose walls Tang poets were already signing.
Tip: It is not included in the park ticket: they are two different gates. The park+cave combined ticket costs ¥135, exactly the sum of the two — it saves you the queue, not money.
🚇 建干路口 stop · 4 min walk
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Show on map七星公园 · Qixing, Guilin
The city's largest park: seven peaks laid out like the Big Dipper, the Flower Bridge and a forest of carved steles.
Tip: It has four entrances — Huaqiao, Tuofeng, Qixia and Longyin — and not all of them are served by the same bus. If you are going to the cave, come in through Huaqiao.
🚇 七星公园 stop · 2 min walk
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Show on map靖江王城 · Xiufeng, Guilin
The walled citadel of the Ming princes, raised 34 years before the Forbidden City and today a university campus.
Tip: The ticket includes climbing the peak inside. It opens 07:30-18:30 and is the priciest gate downtown: if you are short of time, choose between this and the Reed Flute cave.
🚇 Lequn Road Crossing (N° 1) stop · 5 min walk
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Show on map独秀峰 · Xiufeng, Guilin
A block of rock standing alone in the middle of the city; from its 306 steps came the line that named the Guilin landscape.
Tip: This is where 'Guilin's scenery, the finest under heaven' is carved. The climb is short but steep and shadeless: do it early.
🚇 Fengbei Road Crossing (N° 1) stop · 5 min walk
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Show on map贡院 · Xiufeng, Guilin
The cells where the imperial examination was sat, rebuilt inside the palace, with the proclamation ceremony staged live.
Tip: The exam re-enactment is the best moment on site and has no fixed timetable: ask on the way in when the next one falls.
🚇 Fengbei Road Crossing (N° 1) stop · 3 min walk
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Show on map伏波山 · Diecai, Guilin
A peak dropping sheer into the Li River, with a terrace that looks over the whole bend of water and the city behind.
Tip: It is the cheapest gate downtown and the view beats several ¥100 ones. Open 07:00-18:00; bus 2 and tourist line 1 stop at the door.
🚇 Fubo Mountain stop · 3 min walk
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Show on map还珠洞 · Diecai, Guilin
A chamber opening onto the river at the foot of Fubo, with more than two hundred Tang and Song Buddhist carvings on the wall.
Tip: It is carved into the rock at water level and stays cool even in full sun. Look for the column that never quite reaches the floor.
🚇 Fubo Mountain stop · 3 min walk
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Show on map叠彩山 · Diecai, Guilin
Layers of coloured rock stacked one on another and, at the top, the best panorama of the city with the river cutting right through it.
Tip: It opens at 06:30, before everything else: the only summit downtown you can do at sunrise. Buses 2, 58 and tourist line 1 stop at Diecaishan.
🚇 Dongzhen Road (N° 1) stop · 5 min walk
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Show on map日月双塔 · Xiangshan, Guilin
Two twin towers on Shan Lake: the Sun one is solid bronze and the Moon one stone; at night they light up whole.
Tip: From outside and at night it costs nothing, and that is when they look best. Going up the Sun tower is charged separately.
🚇 Riyue Bay pier · 2 min walk
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Show on map榕杉湖景区 · Xiangshan, Guilin
The green heart of Two Rivers and Four Lakes: willows, stone bridges and the thousand-year banyan that gives the lake its name.
Tip: The lakeside walk is never charged. What you pay for is the boat: the daytime four-lakes run costs ¥80 and the full night one ¥210.
🚇 文明路 stop · 5 min walk
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Show on map渔人码头 · Xiufeng, Guilin
The dock the Two Rivers and Four Lakes boats leave from, right below Elephant Trunk Hill.
Tip: They are three different products: four lakes by day ¥80, four lakes by night ¥175 and the full two-rivers night circuit ¥210. Check which one you are being sold before you pay.
🚇 Elephant Hill Fisherman pier · 1 min walk
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Show on map解放桥 · Qixing, Guilin
The bridge that stitches the two banks of the Li River together downtown and the best free balcony for the lit pagodas.
Tip: Stand on the west side at sundown: you get the two pagodas on one side and Elephant Trunk Hill on the other, with no ticket.
🚇 Jiefang Bridge Pier · 2 min walk
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Show on map古南门 · Xiufeng, Guilin
A Tang stone gateway swallowed by the roots of a nine-hundred-year-old banyan, on the edge of Rong Lake.
Tip: The tree wrapped around it is the one that gives Rong Lake its name. It falls right on the way between the lakes and Zhengyang street.
🚇 Lize Bridge stop · 4 min walk
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Show on map桂海碑林博物馆 · Qixing, Guilin
Two hundred inscriptions carved into the rock between the 7th and 19th centuries, on the flank of Longyin hill.
Tip: It sits inside Seven Star Park, but the Longyin gate gets you straight in without crossing the whole park.
🚇 七星公园 stop · 9 min walk
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Show on map能仁禅寺 · Xiufeng, Guilin
A working Buddhist temple right downtown, with a vegetarian dining hall open to the public.
Tip: It is a real temple, not a tourist site: come in quietly and do not point the camera at anyone praying.
🚇 Guanyi Bridge stop · 5 min walk
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Show on map桂林甑皮岩遗址博物馆 · Xiangshan, Guilin
A rock shelter lived in 12,000 years ago, with crouched burials and the oldest pottery in the region.
Tip: It is free and almost nobody knows it: the best indoor plan in Guilin on a rainy day.
🚇 甑皮岩路口 stop · 9 min walk
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Show on map靖江王陵博物馆 · Yaoshan, Guilin
Eleven Ming mausoleums at the foot of Mount Yao, with their avenue of stone animals and the recovered grave goods.
Tip: It is the counterpart to the downtown palace: that is where the princes lived, this is where they are buried. Bus 24 reaches the gate.
🚇 靖江王陵 stop · 12 min walk
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Show on map尧山 · Qixing, Guilin
The highest summit around Guilin, with a return cable car and a mountain toboggan for the way down.
Tip: Walking up is free and the site is open all day, but the cable car only runs from 08:00 to 16:00: climb up late and you walk back down.
🚇 靖江王陵 stop · 18 min walk
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Show on map桂花公社 · Xiufeng, Guilin
A site given over entirely to osmanthus, the tree the city is named after: distillery, confectionery and a garden of varieties.
Tip: The big bloom is September to October and by November it is over, but here the scent is worked all year into preserves and liquor.
🚇 Jiugangling Unit stop · 30 min walk
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Show on map冠岩 · Caoping, Guilin
A three-level cavern beside the Li River, toured by train, by glass lift and by boat through the cave chambers.
Tip: It sits halfway between Guilin and Yangshuo, on the river road: the logical stop if you do the leg overland.
🚇 Guanyan Train station · 17 min walk
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Show on map大圩古镇 · Lingchuan, Guilin
Two kilometres of Song cobbled street on the bank of the Li River, with shops, forges and a landing still in use.
Tip: Nothing to pay, and it is the least retouched river town on the map. Go on a weekday: at weekends the groups arrive from Guilin.
🚇 雄村路口 terminal · 5 min walk
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Show on map杨堤码头 · Yangdi, Yangshuo
The starting point for the bamboo rafts along the tightest, most photographed stretch of the Li River.
Tip: This is the cheap alternative to the big cruise: the raft does only the good stretch, Yangdi-Xingping, instead of the full four hours.
🚇 Yangdi Bamboo Pier · 1 min walk
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Show on map九马画山 · Yangdi, Yangshuo
A sheer rock face whose mineral stains draw horses: tradition says spotting them all is a sign of talent.
Tip: It only reads well from the water and the boat passes it in a minute: have the camera ready before the bend.
🚇 Bamboo Boat Terminal · 6 min walk
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Show on map相公山 · Yangdi, Yangshuo
The high lookout over the Li River's great meander, photographers' favourite at misty sunrise.
Tip: You climb in the dark to be up there before the sun. In November it rises around 07:00: allow time for the climb and bring something warm.
🚇 Mashan Bamboo Boat Terminal · 25 min walk
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Show on map黄布倒影 · Xingping, Yangshuo
The stretch of river where the peaks double in the water: the landscape printed on the back of the 20-yuan note.
Tip: It is not in Yangshuo town but in Xingping, 20 km upriver. You get there from the Xingping dock and the exact spot is a short walk from the old quarter.
🚇 Ergendi Pier · 12 min walk
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Show on map20元人民币背景图取景地 · Xingping, Yangshuo
The signposted platform from which you frame exactly the view you carry in your pocket on the banknote.
Tip: Pull out a 20 note and compare it on the spot: the trick is to drop the camera almost level with the water.
🚇 Ergendi Pier · 14 min walk
Featured in: OpenStreetMap · Li River site
Show on map兴坪古镇 · Xingping, Yangshuo
Seventeen hundred years of Ming and Qing houses on a bend of the river, with its stone street and its fishermen's dock.
Tip: Sleeping here instead of in Yangshuo puts the river sunrise within reach and takes you out of the West Street noise.
🚇 Xingping bus station · 8 min walk
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Show on map老寨山 · Xingping, Yangshuo
A short, hard climb behind Xingping that ends at a pavilion with the whole river meander at your feet.
Tip: Climbing it costs nothing. If someone charges you admission at the foot of the hill, it is not the site: the hill is free.
🚇 Xingping bus station · 11 min walk
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Show on map兴坪渔村 · Xingping, Yangshuo
A Ming hamlet that welcomed Sun Yat-sen and Bill Clinton, with its stone courtyards and the cormorants on the bank.
Tip: The cormorant fishermen pose for a tip: agree the price BEFORE you take the photo, not after.
🚇 taxi or ride app from Xingping bus station · 2 km
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Show on map西街 · Yangshuo
The fourteen-hundred-year-old stone street that became the heart of Yangshuo nightlife: bars, shops and music.
Tip: By day it is an ordinary street and by night it fills up. Main-street prices are tourist prices: one block in they halve.
🚇 叠翠路中 stop · 4 min walk
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Show on map碧莲峰 · Yangshuo
The hill that closes Yangshuo against the river, with a carved path and the giant calligraphy of the character for 'beauty'.
Tip: It is the shortest climb in town and gets you out of the crowd in ten minutes.
🚇 Fuan Matou (Fuan docks) · 7 min walk
Featured in: OpenStreetMap · Yangshuo site
Show on map月亮山 · Yangshuo
A natural arch pierced right through the mountain top, changing phase depending on where you look at it from.
Tip: OpenStreetMap has its ticket office marked as closed and we could not confirm the state of the climb in an official source: ask in Yangshuo on the day before cycling out here.
🚇 大榕树景区 stop · 32 min walk
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Show on map十里画廊 · Yangshuo
Six kilometres of road between peaks, bamboo and rice fields south of Yangshuo: the valley's classic bike ride.
Tip: The route is free and flat. Rent the bike in town and set off early: by mid-morning it fills with tour buses.
🚇 Gongnong Bridge stop · 4 min walk
Featured in: OpenStreetMap · Yangshuo site
Show on map大榕树景区 · Yangshuo
A fourteen-hundred-year-old banyan with a canopy the size of a square, the set of the Chinese film classic Liu Sanjie.
Tip: The tree reads well from the Ten Li Gallery road without paying. Pay only if you want the whole park.
🚇 大榕树景区 stop · 4 min walk
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Show on map遇龙河 · Yangshuo
The Li's gentle tributary, with no motor boats: only bamboo rafts poled between rice fields.
Tip: Walking or cycling the bank costs nothing. The raft does cost: the Jinlongqiao-Jiuxian leg starts at ¥117 and is worth booking.
🚇 Longyanmen Village stop · 13 min walk
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Show on map仙桂桥 · Jiuxian, Yangshuo
The oldest stone bridge in Guangxi, raised in 1123 and still crossing the Yulong without a crack.
Tip: It hides among the bamboo and almost no tour stops: get off the bike and cross it on foot.
🚇 旧县码头 pier · 22 min walk
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Show on map富里桥 · Baisha, Yangshuo
A Ming stone arch over the Yulong, with willows dropping on both sides and buffalo in the ford.
Tip: It is the photo stop on the Yulong bike loop, and in the afternoon the light hits it head on.
🚇 Jinlong Bridge Bamboo Boat Terminal · 22 min walk
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Show on map印象·刘三姐 · Yangshuo
Zhang Yimou's show on the Li River: six hundred performers, twelve lit peaks and the water as the stage.
Tip: You buy it on the show's WeChat mini-program, with a numbered seat and a single access check. No filming and no live streaming.
🚇 Fuan Matou (Fuan docks) · 19 min walk
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Show on map桂林千古情剧场 · Yangshuo
The valley's other big show: an indoor production about Guilin's history, with a theme park around it.
Tip: Unlike Zhang Yimou's, this one is under a roof: it is the fallback if the river show is called off for rain.
🚇 Yangshuo Bus Station · 18 min walk
Featured in: OpenStreetMap · Yangshuo site
Show on map桂林两江国际机场 · Lingui, Guilin
Guilin's air gateway, some 28 km west of the centre, with a single passenger terminal in service.
Tip: The airport bus runs from the terminal into town; we could not confirm the 2026 fare in an official source, so carry cash and a payment code just in case.
🚇 Liangjiang airport terminal · bus to downtown ~1 h
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Show on map竹江码头 · Daxu, Guilin
The dock the four-star Li River cruises leave from, bound for Yangshuo.
Tip: The window is TWO HOURS: if you are not there before 10:00 you have missed the boat. And it is not in Guilin city, it is 30 km to the southeast.
🚇 Zhujiang pier · 1 min walk
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Show on map磨盘山码头 · Daxu, Guilin
The dock for the three-star Li River cruises, the most used and the one with the widest window.
Tip: The three-star boat boards here (¥215, admission included). The four-star leaves from the other dock: check your ticket for which one is yours.
🚇 Mopanshan Pier · 1 min walk
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Show on map同来米粉 · Xiangshan, Guilin
One of the best-loved rice-noodle houses downtown: dark lu shui broth and braised meat on top.
Tip: You order by weight: 二两 to try it, 三两 if you are hungry. Eat it dry and mixed first; the broth goes in only at the end.
🚇 西城路口 stop · 1 min walk
Featured in: Historic 桂林米粉 house · Guilin
Show on map崇善米粉 · Xiufeng, Guilin
The local cult rice-noodle chain, with a queue at the door from seven in the morning.
Tip: The toppings counter is free: spring onion, peanuts, fermented beans and chilli. Serve yourself and do not be shy with the peanuts.
🚇 Liberation Bridge stop · 5 min walk
Featured in: Local 桂林米粉 chain · Guilin
Show on map明桂米粉 · Xiufeng, Guilin
A rice-noodle house with the heartiest braised-beef version in the neighbourhood.
Tip: Order the 牛腩粉, the beef-brisket one: it is their speciality and it is gone before noon.
🚇 Shizi Street (West Jiefang Road) (N° 1) stop · 1 min walk
Featured in: 桂林米粉 house · Guilin
Show on map大拇指米粉 · Xiufeng, Guilin
A neighbourhood place where locals have breakfast: fast, cheap rice noodles with no concessions to tourism.
Tip: This is where you see the real ritual: nobody asks for broth at the start. Mix, eat it dry, and only then ask for the broth to finish.
🚇 Lize Bridge stop · 2 min walk
Featured in: 桂林米粉 house · Guilin
Show on map乱了粉库 · Xiufeng, Guilin
Guilin rice noodles served bar-style, with local beer and tables on the pavement.
Tip: It is one of the few still serving rice noodles past midnight, when the classics have pulled the shutters down.
🚇 Liberation Bridge stop · 3 min walk
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Show on map秋福米线 · Xiufeng, Guilin
Thin rice noodles in broth, the softer, less known alternative to the classic lu shui.
Tip: If the dark lu shui broth felt too intense, try here: this is the light version.
🚇 解放东路 stop · 4 min walk
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Show on map二塘中学米粉 · Xiangshan, Guilin
The noodle stall opposite the Ertang school, one of those that open at dawn and close when the pot runs out.
Tip: It is off the tourist circuit, which is why a bowl costs what a bowl really costs in Guilin. Get there before nine.
🚇 桂林南汽车站 terminal · 13 min walk
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Show on map椿记烧鹅 · Xiangshan, Guilin
Cantonese roast goose with glazed skin, one of Guilin's most popular tables for a group lunch.
Tip: Order half a goose for two and the rice with its juices: that is the dish that justifies the wait.
🚇 西城路口 stop · 2 min walk
Featured in: OpenStreetMap · Guilin roast goose house
Show on map椿记烧鹅 · Qixing, Guilin
The branch east of the river, quieter and with the same goose and Cantonese menu.
Tip: It is near Seven Star Park: the natural lunch if you have spent the morning there.
🚇 建干路 stop · 2 min walk
Featured in: OpenStreetMap · Guilin roast goose house
Show on map桂林粥城 · Xiufeng, Guilin
A big Li River kitchen: freshwater fish, stuffed river snails and congee at any hour.
Tip: This is where to try 田螺酿, the river snail stuffed with pork and mint: a Guilin dish that barely leaves the province.
🚇 Riyue Bay pier · 2 min walk
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Show on map能仁素食馆 · Xiufeng, Guilin
The Nengren temple's vegetarian dining hall, with a buffet of Buddhist dishes free of garlic and onion.
Tip: It serves on temple hours, not restaurant hours: go at midday sharp or you miss it.
🚇 Guanyi Bridge stop · 5 min walk
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Show on map阿甘酒家 · Xiufeng, Guilin
Homely and loud, right on the pedestrian street: Guangxi wok dishes and river fish at neighbourhood prices.
Tip: It is on Zhengyang but charges as if it were not: order the 啤酒鱼 (beer fish) here if you are not going to make it to Yangshuo.
🚇 Liberation Bridge stop · 5 min walk
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Show on map福记肠粉 · 粥 · Xiufeng, Guilin
Steamed rice rolls made in front of you and thick congee: the Cantonese breakfast Guilin adopted.
Tip: The 肠粉 is made to order and cools fast: eat it in, not to take away.
🚇 Elephant Hill Fisherman pier · 5 min walk
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Show on map海天肠粉 · Xiufeng, Guilin
A tiny place for steamed rice rolls filled with egg, pork or shrimp, at breakfast prices.
Tip: It is one of those that opens at half past six: ideal if you are leaving early for the river dock.
🚇 Shizi Street (West Jiefang Road) (N° 1) stop · 1 min walk
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Show on map福建馄饨王 · Xiufeng, Guilin
Wontons in clear broth and fine noodles, open late near the pedestrian street.
Tip: It is one of the few still open when everything around the Jingjiang Palace shuts.
🚇 Lequn Road Crossing (N° 1) stop · 2 min walk
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Show on map老陈记 · Xiufeng, Guilin
Guangxi home cooking on the pedestrian street, with fish, seasonal vegetables and rice at will.
Tip: Look at what the next table is eating and point: the long English menu has different prices from the Chinese board.
🚇 Elephant Hill Fisherman pier · 6 min walk
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Show on map味香馆 · Xiufeng, Guilin
A neighbourhood classic with the usual Guangxi stir-fries and a short menu that moves with the market.
Tip: There is no picture menu: ask what came in from the river today and order that.
🚇 Elephant Hill Fisherman pier · 5 min walk
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Show on map和记家常菜馆 · Xiufeng, Guilin
Guilin home food: Lipu taro with pork belly, steamed fish and the day's vegetables.
Tip: Order the 荔浦芋扣肉: Lipu taro is the province's star product and this is the dish that shows it off.
🚇 Elephant Hill Fisherman pier · 4 min walk
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Show on map曾三家味馆 · Xiangshan, Guilin
A family house with Guilin's lifelong recipes and tables that fill with neighbours at midday.
Tip: It shuts early in the evening: this is a lunch house, not a dinner one.
🚇 children palace stop · 2 min walk
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Show on map六感食堂 · Xiufeng, Guilin
Guangxi cooking brought up to date in a modern room near the Jingjiang Palace.
Tip: It is one of the few downtown where you can eat well past nine without ending up on the bar street.
🚇 Fubo Mountain stop · 5 min walk
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Show on map田舍 · Xiufeng, Guilin
A small, tidy Japanese place on the pedestrian street, the refuge once you have eaten rice noodles three days running.
Tip: It has a counter for one: among the most comfortable spots downtown to eat alone.
🚇 Riyue Bay pier · 3 min walk
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Show on map泰美麗 · Xiufeng, Guilin
Thai right on Zhengyang, with curries and hot salads loaded with lime.
Tip: Order the spice at half what you think: they calibrate for local palates here.
🚇 Elephant Hill Fisherman pier · 4 min walk
Featured in: OpenStreetMap · Guilin
Show on map好吃堡 · Xiufeng, Guilin
Freshwater fish and shellfish in the tank, picked by weight and cooked on the spot.
Tip: It is charged by weight: have it weighed in front of you and confirm the price BEFORE it goes into the kitchen.
🚇 Elephant Hill Fisherman pier · 3 min walk
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Show on map黑胡椒印度餐厅 · Xiufeng, Guilin
North Indian curry and tandoor bread in central Guilin, with genuine vegetarian options.
Tip: It is the safest bet downtown if you do not eat meat: in Guilin cooking the broth almost always has bone in it.
🚇 Elephant Hill Fisherman pier · 5 min walk
Featured in: OpenStreetMap · Guilin
Show on map兴进·鱼坊 · Qixing, Guilin
A house specialising in river fish cooked the Guangxi way, with a big room and tanks on view.
Tip: It is one of the tables where Guilin families eat on a Sunday: book if you come with a group.
🚇 穿山桥 stop · 5 min walk
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Show on map谢大姐啤酒鱼 · Yangshuo
Li River fish stewed with beer, tomato and chilli: the dish that defines Yangshuo, at one of its classic houses.
Tip: 啤酒鱼 is cooked whole with the scales on: that is deliberate, the scales crisp up and you eat them.
🚇 Bus to Guilin stop · 5 min walk
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Show on map梅姐金奖啤酒鱼 · Yangshuo
One of the award-winning beer fish houses, half a block from West Street.
Tip: The fish is charged by weight and one feeds three: do not let them talk you up to two without asking.
🚇 叠翠路中 stop · 3 min walk
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Show on map大师傅啤酒鱼 · Yangshuo
Beer fish in a village house, with open-air tables and the Bilian peak behind.
Tip: It sits on the edge of town: same dish, half the noise of West Street.
🚇 Kang Zhan Lu Bei stop · 1 min walk
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Show on map聚福楼 · Yangshuo
One of Yangshuo's most seasoned kitchens: well-made Guangxi dishes and an honest bilingual menu.
Tip: It has the beer fish and also the stir-fried mountain greens, which almost nobody orders and are the best thing on the menu.
🚇 叠翠路中 stop · 4 min walk
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Show on map暗香疏影素菜馆 · Yangshuo
Buddhist vegetarian cooking in a dark-wood room, with mock-meat dishes and house tea.
Tip: It is the most elaborate vegetarian in the valley and worth booking: few tables and it fills up.
🚇 叠翠路中 stop · 5 min walk
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Show on map桂香小炒店 · Yangshuo
Stir-fries over a fierce flame, with the menu written on the wall and village prices.
Tip: It is on the north side, off the tourist axis: this is where people who work in Yangshuo eat.
🚇 神山路中 stop · 1 min walk
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Show on map闲来私房菜 · Yangshuo
Guangxi home cooking in a small courtyard, with a menu the owner decides by what the market gave her.
Tip: There is no fixed menu: say how many you are, whether you eat spicy, and let her build the table.
🚇 阳朔公园 stop · 3 min walk
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Show on map灯笼风味馆 · Yangshuo
Regional Guangxi food in the old centre, with red lanterns at the door and tables on the pavement.
Tip: Order the Lipu taro and the stuffed river snails: the two provincial dishes they do well here.
🚇 叠翠路中 stop · 2 min walk
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Show on map山色西餐厅 · Yangshuo
Grill and Western cooking with live music, the refuge of the climbers who come to the valley.
Tip: It is where the valley's climbers cross paths: a good place to pick up route and guide information.
🚇 叠翠路中 stop · 2 min walk
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Show on map玫瑰木餐厅 · Yangshuo
An international menu with Hong Kong touches, in a converted house on West Street.
Tip: It has a first-floor terrace: the best table for watching the street without being in the crush.
🚇 叠翠路中 stop · 3 min walk
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Show on map听月楼 · Yangshuo
Country cooking in the Moon valley, with its own vegetable garden and peak views from the terrace.
Tip: It is deep in the countryside, far from town: ideal as a lunch stop halfway round the Ten Li bike ride.
🚇 大榕树景区 stop · 29 min walk
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Show on map遇龙河畔餐厅 · Yangshuo
Tables on the bank of the Yulong, with a mixed Asian and Western menu and the rafts going by.
Tip: Order early: at midday the rafts all arrive together and the kitchen clogs.
🚇 大榕树景区 stop · 24 min walk
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Show on map亮指芒果饭店 · Yangshuo
A village canteen on the Ten Li Gallery road, with rice, fish and local mango juice.
Tip: It is one of the few places with shade and cold water on the middle stretch of the bike ride.
🚇 大榕树景区 stop · 19 min walk
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Show on map老街坊餐吧 · Xingping, Yangshuo
A canteen on Xingping's old street, with simple local cooking and tables facing the cobbles.
Tip: Xingping has half a dozen tables and this is the one that opens latest: useful if you come back hungry from sunrise.
🚇 Xingping bus station · 6 min walk
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Show on map温馨餐吧 · Xingping, Yangshuo
Home cooking in Xingping with river fish and garden vegetables, steps from the dock.
Tip: It is the natural stop between stepping off the raft and climbing Laozhai: eat light before the climb.
🚇 Xingping bus station · 7 min walk
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Show on map果林农家 · Xingping, Yangshuo
Farm food on the edge of Xingping, with free-range chicken and the day's vegetables.
Tip: Let them know in advance if you are coming: they cook to order and have no menu.
🚇 Ergendi Pier · 16 min walk
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Show on map十如 - 丹桂坊 · Yanshan, Guilin
The noodle counter of a design-led complex south of Guilin, doing the local rice noodle with fine ingredients.
Tip: It is the expensive take on the city's noodle. Worth it as a contrast, but the ¥5 bowl on the corner is the real one.
🚇 taxi or ride app from 二塘中学 · 2 km
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Show on map福今茶業 · Xiufeng, Guilin
A downtown tea house where you taste and buy by the leaf: pu'er, osmanthus tea and Guangxi greens.
Tip: Order the 桂花茶, osmanthus tea: it is THE Guilin infusion and here they brew it gongfu style at your table.
🚇 Lize Bridge stop · 3 min walk
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Show on map茶馆 · Xiangshan, Guilin
A quiet tea room near the lakes, with gongfu service and leaves from the province.
Tip: Gongfu service comes as many short infusions: do not leave after the first, the third is the best.
🚇 children palace stop · 5 min walk
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Show on map茶馆 · Xiufeng, Guilin
A modern tea room near the Jingjiang Palace, with a leaf list and osmanthus sweets.
Tip: Order the 桂花糕, the osmanthus cake: the sweet that best explains what this city smells like in autumn.
🚇 Fubo Mountain stop · 4 min walk
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Show on map桂林茶业 · Xiangshan, Guilin
A shop and tasting table for Guangxi tea, with osmanthus, luo han guo and provincial greens.
Tip: Ask to taste before buying: it is normal here and nobody takes offence. Osmanthus is sold by weight.
🚇 桂林站 stop · 3 min walk
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Show on map黑龙茶 · Qixing, Guilin
A neighbourhood tea stall where locals stop to fill their flask on the way to work.
Tip: Here you see the real habit: almost nobody sits down, they fill the flask and move on.
🚇 十八中 stop · 1 min walk
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Show on map小刘付 制作酸奶 · Xiufeng, Guilin
Homemade yoghurt made on site, thick and sharp, served in a glass jar with fruit.
Tip: It is a very Guangxi habit: homemade yoghurt in a jar you give back. Drink it on the spot.
🚇 Shizi Street (West Jiefang Road) (N° 1) stop · 3 min walk
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Show on map榕咖啡 · Xiufeng, Guilin
A neighbourhood café by Rong Lake, roasting its own and with tables facing the water.
Tip: It is one of the few in Guilin that roasts in house. Sit outside: the pavement opens onto the lakes park.
🚇 stop 21, 22 · 4 min walk
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Show on map十月咖啡 · Xiufeng, Guilin
A small, neat specialty café near the Jingjiang Palace, with pour-overs and the day's pastries.
Tip: Order pour-over, not espresso: the bean shines in a V60 here and they know it.
🚇 Fubo Mountain stop · 2 min walk
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Show on map黑度咖啡店 · Diecai, Guilin
A minute specialty spot with a concrete counter and three stools, hidden from the tourist circuit.
Tip: It is one of the few cafés in Guilin where the barista talks about bean origin: ask what is open today.
🚇 Lequn Road Crossing stop · 2 min walk
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Show on map意式咖啡吧 · Xiufeng, Guilin
A stand-up espresso bar near the Jingjiang Palace, built for drinking on your feet.
Tip: It is the quick stop before going into the palace, which has nothing decent inside.
🚇 Liberation Bridge stop · 3 min walk
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Show on map夏尔咖啡 · Xiufeng, Guilin
A themed café of wood and warm light on the pedestrian street, with homemade tarts and filter coffee.
Tip: It has sockets and stable wifi: the best place downtown to reorganise the trip on a rainy afternoon.
🚇 Elephant Hill Fisherman pier · 3 min walk
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Show on map上品咖啡 · Xiufeng, Guilin
Café by day and bar by night on Zhengyang, with a terrace onto the pedestrian street.
Tip: The menu changes at sundown: if you want coffee, get there before seven.
🚇 Riyue Bay pier · 4 min walk
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Show on map线 · Xiufeng, Guilin
Half café, half gallery on the pedestrian street, with small shows that rotate.
Tip: Ask what is on show: it is usually work by Guangxi artists and it is for sale.
🚇 Elephant Hill Fisherman pier · 6 min walk
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Show on map咖啡馆 · Xiangshan, Guilin
A quiet café near Shan Lake, with books, armchairs and unhurried service.
Tip: Steps from the twin pagodas: have your coffee here and walk out just as they switch the lights on.
🚇 文明路 stop · 1 min walk
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Show on map李萍咖啡屋 · Yangshuo
One of West Street's long-standing cafés, with filter coffee and long breakfasts.
Tip: It opens before the rest of the street: the best quiet breakfast in Yangshuo.
🚇 叠翠路中 stop · 1 min walk
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Show on map乱了咖啡吧 · Yangshuo
Café by day and bar by night in the old centre, roasting its own and with live music late on.
Tip: It is one of the few on the street with real coffee and not just drinks: have it before eight.
🚇 叠翠路中 stop · 2 min walk
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Show on map露茜餐吧 · Yangshuo
A West Street backpacker classic, with Western breakfasts and an information board on the wall.
Tip: The board on the wall is still the best source of practical information in the valley.
🚇 叠翠路中 stop · 1 min walk
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Show on map小王子咖啡 · Yangshuo
A small café off the bar axis, with an inner courtyard and filter coffee.
Tip: It is one block in from West Street: same town, different volume.
🚇 叠翠路中 stop · 2 min walk
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Show on map泽而沐咖啡 · Yangshuo
A modern specialty café near the river, with single-origin beans and the day's pastries.
Tip: It is among the newest in town and among the best roasted: order pour-over.
🚇 叠翠路中 stop · 5 min walk
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Show on map朴桃咖啡 · Yangshuo
A country café on the Yulong road, with open-air tables among the rice fields.
Tip: It is the best stop on the Yulong bike loop: shade, water and decent coffee halfway round.
🚇 Transportation Bureau stop · 7 min walk
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Show on map一尺稻田咖啡 · Yangshuo
A café set on the edge of a paddy field, its terrace looking at the peaks and the irrigation water.
Tip: In November the rice is already harvested and the field turns golden and dry: that is when the outline of the peaks reads best.
🚇 旧县码头 pier · 25 min walk
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Show on map香草森林 · Yangshuo
A tea and coffee house in the Yulong valley, with herbal infusions from its own garden and sandwiches.
Tip: The infusions come from the garden out back: ask them to tell you what is in today's.
🚇 taxi or ride app from 旧县码头 · 3 km
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Show on map山顶Coffee · Yangshuo
A café high above the Li River, with a terrace looking at the bend of water and the peaks opposite.
Tip: Come up for sunset: one of the few river viewpoints where you can sit down with something hot.
🚇 Fuan Matou (Fuan docks) · 31 min walk
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Show on map月亮山咖啡 · Yangshuo
A small café and canteen facing Moon Hill, with tables looking at the rock arch.
Tip: From the terrace you see the arch without paying anything: have a coffee and decide whether the climb is worth it.
🚇 大榕树景区 stop · 29 min walk
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Show on map娄氏饼店 · Yangshuo
A village bakery on West Street, with sweet bread, tarts and the osmanthus cake.
Tip: Buy the 桂花糕 here in the morning: the afternoon one has spent hours in the case.
🚇 叠翠路中 stop · 2 min walk
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Show on map爱心乡村面包 · Yangshuo
A rural bakery in the Yulong valley, with a wood-fired oven and bread to take on the ride.
Tip: Load up on bread here before the Yulong raft: there is nowhere to buy anything on the river.
🚇 taxi or ride app from 旧县码头 · 3 km
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Show on map正阳步行街 · Xiufeng, Guilin
The old town's commercial spine: six hundred metres of shops, food stalls and restored houses.
Tip: This is where the official Li River shop is, at Zhengyang Lu Xi Xiang 9: you can book or collect cruise tickets in person.
🚇 Liberation Bridge stop · 2 min walk
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Show on map东西巷 · Xiufeng, Guilin
The restored Ming and Qing lanes beside the princes' palace, with craft shops, sweets and tea courtyards.
Tip: No admission charged. It is the best place to buy Guilin's three treasures without going to the supermarket.
🚇 解放东路 stop · 2 min walk
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Show on map桂林三花酒 · Xiufeng, Guilin
The shop for Guilin's rice spirit, distilled with water from Xiangbi hill: the first of the three treasures.
Tip: The three treasures are 三花酒 (rice spirit), 豆腐乳 (fermented tofu) and 辣椒酱 (chilli paste). Look for the Xiangshan brand on the spirit.
🚇 Riyue Bay pier · 3 min walk
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Show on map桂林三花酒文化博物馆 · Xiufeng, Guilin
The house-museum of Guilin's rice spirit: vats, traditional distilling and a tasting at the end of the tour.
Tip: The tasting is free and comes with no obligation to buy. The young spirit hits hard: taste before you load up a bottle.
🚇 知音台码头 pier · 3 min walk
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Show on map桂林土特产总批发 · Xiufeng, Guilin
A warehouse of provincial specialities: fermented tofu, chilli paste, luo han guo and preserved osmanthus.
Tip: For the fermented tofu look for the Sifangjing brand and for the chilli paste, Huaqiao: those are the two references.
🚇 Riyue Bay pier · 4 min walk
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Show on map桂林土特产专卖店 · Diecai, Guilin
A shop in the north of the city with the region's products packed and ready to travel.
Tip: Ask them to seal the jars of fermented tofu and chilli paste: in checked luggage they leak.
🚇 Guilinbei station · 1 min walk
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Show on map好又多 · Xiangshan, Guilin
The big downtown supermarket, where people from Guilin buy the three treasures without the tourist mark-up.
Tip: This is the local trick: the same three treasures as in the old-town shops, at shelf prices.
🚇 西门桥 stop · 2 min walk
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Show on map南站市场 · Xiangshan, Guilin
The covered market beside the station: stalls of luo han guo, dried longan and loose spices.
Tip: Luo han guo, monk fruit, is bought here and not in a shop: pick the big round ones, one makes a whole flask.
🚇 天鹅塘 stop · 3 min walk
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Show on map铁路菜市 · Diecai, Guilin
A neighbourhood market in the north, with the day's vegetables, loose fermented tofu and chilli paste by weight.
Tip: People from Guilin buy the chilli paste loose at the market's pickle stall, not packaged. Bring your own jar.
🚇 Qunzhang Road Crossing (N° 1) stop · 12 min walk
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Show on map东环市场 · Qixing, Guilin
A wholesale market on the east bank, with river fish, sprouts and provincial fruit.
Tip: It is the real market for the Seven Star area: go before nine or they have packed up.
🚇 电子科大西区 stop · 3 min walk
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Show on map金鸡岭市场 · Qixing, Guilin
A northeastern neighbourhood market without a single tourist, with pickle stalls and fresh noodles.
Tip: This is where you buy fresh rice noodles by weight, the same ones the 桂林米粉 houses use.
🚇 电子科大东区 stop · 2 min walk
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Show on map桂林微笑堂商厦 · Xiufeng, Guilin
The old town's historic mall, Guilin's first department store, today with brands and a food court.
Tip: The basement has a supermarket with the Guilin products aisle: the quick shop with air conditioning.
🚇 Shizi Street (West Jiefang Road) (N° 1) stop · 2 min walk
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Show on map梦之岛百货 · Xiangshan, Guilin
A department store on Zhongshan with international brands, cosmetics and a floor of regional products.
Tip: It is the option if you need something branded in Guilin: you will not find it in Dongxi Xiang.
🚇 Riyue Bay pier · 3 min walk
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Show on map新华书店 · Xiufeng, Guilin
The state bookshop downtown, with provincial maps, rice paper and calligraphy supplies.
Tip: This is where to buy the paper map of the Li River: there is no signal on the boat and the map saves you.
🚇 Shizi Street(Central Square) stop · 1 min walk
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Show on map捷安特 · Qixing, Guilin
The bike brand's shop and workshop, with rentals and spares for the river loop.
Tip: If you are going to ride the Yulong, have your brakes checked here first: the Yangshuo rentals come badly worn.
🚇 Jiefang Bridge Pier · 6 min walk
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Show on map自行车店 · Yangshuo
A workshop and rental for road and mountain bikes in the Yulong valley, with maps of the lanes.
Tip: They rent real bikes, not the town's cruisers: what you want if you are doing the Ten Li and the Yulong the same day.
🚇 旧县码头 pier · 17 min walk
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Show on map桂林桂花伴手礼 · Yangshuo
A shop given over to Guilin osmanthus: cakes, liquor, tea and preserves of the flower the city is named after.
Tip: The city's name literally means osmanthus forest. The bloom runs September to October: in November only the preserve is left, and that is fine.
🚇 Kang Zhan Lu Bei stop · 2 min walk
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Show on map坭兴陶 · Xingping, Yangshuo
A workshop for Guangxi's purple-clay pottery, fired unglazed and hand-polished until it shines.
Tip: 坭兴陶 carries no glaze: the colour comes out of the kiln and every piece is different. Ask them to show you the signed base.
🚇 Xingping bus station · 2 min walk
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Show on map城区市场 · Yangshuo
The town's covered market, with valley fruit, river fish and the local dried chillies.
Tip: It is two blocks from West Street and the prices are different: fruit costs a third.
🚇 Central Square stop · 1 min walk
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Show on map新客隆超市 · Yangshuo
Yangshuo's big supermarket, with a regional products aisle and cheap water for the ride.
Tip: Load up on water here before getting on the raft: on the river everything costs three times as much.
🚇 Bus to Guilin stop · 5 min walk
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Show on map白沙综合农贸市场 · Baisha, Yangshuo
The Baisha farm market, where Yulong valley growers sell kumquat and pomelo.
Tip: Baisha is Yangshuo's kumquat country and November falls right in its season: buy here, not in town.
🚇 taxi or ride app from Jinlong Bridge Bamboo Boat Terminal · 3 km
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Show on map百姓超市 · Xingping, Yangshuo
The village store in Xingping, open early, with water, fruit and whatever you need to climb Laozhai.
Tip: If you are going to Xianggong or Laozhai at sunrise, this is the only place open at that hour to stock up on water.
🚇 Xingping bus station · 5 min walk
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