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Considered the pearl in the crown of China’s thriving tourism industry, the attractive landscaped city of Guilin is famed for its idyllic scenery of undulating karst hills and verdant vegetation that span out from the Li River flowing through Guilin from north to south. Unsurprisingly, this striking landscape is often the subject of traditional Chinese painting and has long inspired the country’s top artists. For many foreign visitors, Guilin and its scenery typifies the exotic Chinese landscape that they have previously only imagined.
Located two hours northwest of Guilin in a remarkably scenic corner of China, the county of Longsheng is home to some ten ethnic minority groups and surrounded on all four sides by forested mountains. The region is largely untouched by the modern world where wooden houses are squeezed between farmed terraces and villagers continue to use age-old farming techniques and dress in their colourful, traditional costume. However, the main attraction is the Dragon’s Backbone terraces where verdant rice fields coil around Mount Longji, climbing layer upon layer to its summit.
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