Guilin, a city whose name comes from its forests of laurels and their beautiful flowers, is famous for its natural beauty. The city is also distinguished for the Lijiang River. There are many karst caves and stone hills as well as hundreds of lakes and ponds around the city. At the downtown you can have a stroll along the well-known Lijiang River and have sightseeing in the beautiful parks by the river. Such as Elephant Hill Park


Xiangbi Hill (Elephant Hill)
Xiangbi Hill at the confluence of Lijiang River and Peach Blossom River perfectly captures all that the guidebooks lead you to expect in Guilin, and is thus the symbol of the city. The hill is named Xiangbi Hill (Elephant Hill) because it looks like an elephant drinking water with its trunk from the Lijiang River.

Lijiang River originates from the remote mountainous region in the northeast of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, flowing pass Guilin, Yangshuo, to the southern part of Guangxi and finally pour into Pearl River at Canton. The total length is 437 kilometers.
The part of Lijiang River between Guilin and Yangshuo is 83 kilometers long, like a green ribbon flowing among the mountains. This part of Lijiang River can be divided into two parts for visiting. The first part is around Guilin, about 10 kilometers long, from Elephant Hill to the remote suburb Tashan Mountain. You can have a bike riding tour along the riverbank. Then, from the cruise ferry to Yangshuo about 50 kilometers long you can take the cruise tour about 4 hours. The scenes along the section the river are the most beautiful. Standing on the cruise you can pass through many splendid views and many tourists just stay on the deck to enjoy the green hills and crystal clear water and they won’t come back the cabinet just for fear that they might miss some part of the scenes.
The charm of visiting Lijiang River is so attracting that many western tourists begin to
Believe the landscape in the Chinese water-colored painting really exist on the earth.

And you don't have to be worry about the weather at Guilin. Different weather can produce different scene effects and all is worth the trip. When it is sunny, you can see the inverted reflections of the hills in river water; when it is cloudy, the green hills are half hidden in the clouds or half shrouded in the mist; when it is drizzling, you can just enjoy appreciating a faintly Chinese water-colored painting.

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