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[quote=APAULT,261853]Or one might describe Yangshuo as one big tourist trap.  A great place totally ruined by tourism.  It is like Mallorca in Spain for example.  Bars and activities for tourists, especially foreigners, at inflated prices.  The river trip from Guilin is ok if you don't mind being one of a couple of hundred people on one of a couple of hundred boats (NO exaggeration) making the trip each day....... after being forced to get up at 7am for a bus that takes an hour to tour the city hotels for more tourists and then after just 30 minutes on the road takes you to a giant souvenir shop for an hour.

However, I do like Guilin it has many interesting features which even the 'sponsored post' above has not mentioned - except for the uncontrolled touts that mass around the walking street and the river.  The city authorities have an urgent need to get this cleaned up, especially the night time touts for massage parlours that just won't p..s off however hard you try. It is a blight on this otherwise interesting city.

As a point of "2 Guilin is the only place within China that has beautiful limestone mountains together with beautiful rivers." is just not true.  The karst mountains extend for more than 200 km and more, right across Guangxi to the Vietnamese border.  There are rivers and towns too...but you would have to seek them out...and you would be in places few tourists go

To see the unique Karst landscape  take a train, north and south.  The line meanders through the countryside and you can see it all .  Catch a local bus to a village.  This way you will see some of what China is really like.

Catch a local bus to see the villages that Local Leo mentions in point three, but take your time, watch the people, savour the experience.

If you do go to Yangshuo ... the Impressions lightshow really is impressive![/quote]

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