Arrive in Guilin and visit the Two Rivers and Four Lakes scenic area. Explore Riyue Shuangta Cultural Park. Stay overnight in Guilin.

Drive to Longji Rice Terraces and take a cable car up. Visit Huangluo Yao Village. Stay overnight at the terraces. Trek through the Longji Rice Terraces, where the hillsides have been sculpted into cascading ribbons of water and green. The wooden Zhuang and Yao minority villages perched on the ridges offer stunning panoramas of this agricultural masterpiece.

Take the Li River cruise from Guilin to Yangshuo. Explore West Street and enjoy the Impression Liu Sanjie show. Cruise down the Li River aboard a bamboo raft as the karst peaks emerge from the morning mist like ink-wash paintings come to life. Water buffalo graze along the banks, cormorant fishermen pole their slender rafts, and each bend reveals another impossible mountain silhouette.

Visit Xingping Ancient Town and climb Laozhai Hill for the iconic 20 RMB note scenery. Enjoy the stunning karst landscape.

Bamboo rafting on Yulong River, cycling through Ten-mile Gallery, visit Moon Hill and Big Banyan Tree. Return to Guilin for Elephant Trunk Hill and departure. Explore Yangshuo's countryside where every turn in the road frames another postcard-perfect view — emerald rice paddies, bamboo groves swaying in the breeze, and towering karst formations reflected in mirror-calm irrigation channels.