Poetry and distance, there is always one thing worth pursuing. Now, as soon as the May Day holiday comes, our three or five friends come for a scenic tour of Guilin. Guilin is a good place to travel with an absolutely unique scenery. The scenery on both sides of the Li River is beautiful and the air is very fresh. It is very pleasant to take a boat on the Li River to see the Shili Gallery, and the karst landscape is also very good. In addition to the natural scenery, Guilin also has many delicious food.

When it comes to travel, we must first plan our travel itinerary and accommodation hotels. We wanted to find a hotel that was close to the main attractions and had a good reputation to stay in-Hampton Inn Lingui is a simple, clear, literary and artistic business hotel, and it is also a hotel with a unique personality. The hotel is equipped with functional facilities such as a multi-functional elite conference hall, Western restaurant, and Ledong Gym. Each room is equipped with double patented mattresses and bedding according to the American Hampton Bed standard. There is also a mobile desk with high-end ergonomic chair, which is very suitable for code words.

Of course, when you come to Guilin, you must definitely go to the Li River. Lijiang Scenic Area is the largest and most beautiful karst landscape area in the world, and is the essence of Guilin's scenery. They are called "Baili Li River, Baili Gallery". The Li River has a unique flavor in different weather conditions: sunny days, with the reflection of green peaks; cloudy days, with mountains and clouds; rainy days, with the Li River misty rain.

Even on a rainy day, you can see the vast expanse of smoke on the river, the mountains are looming, floating clouds pass between the strange peaks, and the rain curtain covers the mountains and rivers like light gauze, like a variety of splashing ink watercolor paintings. It is precisely "Guilin's mountains and rivers are the best in the world, and the wonderful Pan Autumn Map of the Li River".

The Longji terraces are not uniform, but are completely straight with the bend, low with the height, short with the length, narrow with the width, and sloping with the ridge. There is no terraced field of the same shape, let alone a terraced field of the same size. The big one is only three or two acres, and the small one is only planted with one seedling of rice.

Longji Terrace is located in Ping 'an Village, Heping Township, Longsheng Autonomous County, Guangxi. People say that Longji Terrace refers to Ping' an Terrace. In fact, Longji Terrace is mainly composed of Ping 'an Terrace and Jinkeng Terrace. The two terraces have extraordinary shapes and picturesque artistic conception.

Yinziyan is located in Lipu County, Guilin City. It belongs to a typical karst landform. Its cave runs through twelve mountain peaks. The cave contains stalactites developed and grown in different geological ages. It is crystal clear and white, like the Milky Way in the night sky tilting down, shining like silver, so it is called "Yinziyan".

Two rivers and four lakes, namely the general term for the Lijiang River, Taohua River, Shanhu Lake, Ronghu Lake, Gui Lake and Mulong Lake in the central area of Guilin City. Tourists can not only visit the three main scenic spots with their own characteristics by boat, namely, the Chinese classical garden-Rongshan Lake Scenic Area, the ecological garden of the unity of man and man-Guihu Lake Scenic Area, and the Song Historical and Cultural Park-Mulong Lake Scenic Area. On the boat, you can also view more than ten traditional famous mountains such as Xiangshan, Fubo Mountain, Diecai Mountain, Yao Mountain, Baoji Mountain, and Lao Manshan Mountain around the water system.

Xiangshan Park, Elephant Trunk Mountain is named because the entire mountain shape resembles an elephant standing beside the Li River to drink water. It is referred to as Xiangshan, a representative of Guilin's landscape and a symbol of Guilin City. Most local products in Guilin and even Guangxi use Xiangshan as the mark. Comrade Yang Shangkun, the late national leader, once said: "You have to take photos in front of Elephant Trunk Mountain to be considered to have been to Guilin. This is a unique scenery."

"Xanadu" is located near Baisha Town in Yangshuo County. It mainly consists of lotus ponds, Yanzi Lake, Yanzi Cave, Dong Township customs and primitive tribes. If it is the season when the apricot blossoms rain when you get on clothes, but the willow breeze blows on your face. Step into the "Xanadu" and you will see beautiful mountains, rivers and pastoral scenery.

Duxiu Peak is located in the Jingjiang King City in the center of the city. It is steep, high and majestic. It is known as the "Pillar of the South Sky". It stands on three fronts with Diecai Mountain and Fubo Mountain and is one of the main peaks in Guilin. When the morning light shines or the sunset shines, the lonely peak looks like it is covered in purple and gold, so it is also known as Zijin Mountain.

Yangshuo-West Street,"Guilin's mountains and rivers are the best in the world", and most of the "best in the world" mountains and rivers refer to Yangshuo. The mountains, rivers and waters here are the most suitable for falling in love. Every continuous curve is soft, like lovers relying on each other, and it is soft and makes people's hearts cry. In this calm and comfortable city, there is a prosperous street for petty bourgeoisie-West Street. This is a street with a variety of customs.

Butterfly Spring is a tourist attraction integrating strange mountains, beautiful waters, secluded caves and pastoral scenery. It is located in the elite area of the "Shili Gallery" of the Moon Mountain Scenic Area in Yangshuo, Guilin. It has the reputation of "not reaching the top of the Butterfly Mountain, but not knowing the scenery of Yangshuo". Butterfly Spring is named after a spring water gushing out of the mountainside cliff in the Butterfly Cave.

In addition to the beautiful scenery, Guilin cuisine is not to be missed.

Guilin rice noodles are famous for their unique flavor. Its workmanship is exquisite. First, the best rice is ground into slurry, bag and filter dry, squeeze into a dough, cooked, and then squeezed into round roots or slices. The garden is called rice flour, and the flake is called cut flour, and the commonly known rice flour is called rice flour. It is characterized by white, tender, soft and refreshing. It has a variety of eating methods.

Beer Lijiang Fish is a famous local dish in Yangshuo. Choose the fresh carp from the Lijiang River in Yangshuo, fry it first with raw tea oil produced in the northern Guangxi area, and then put in the first-class beer produced in Guilin and braised it for red. It has a unique crispy and tender flavor, which will make your appetite open.

Guilin's most famous "Eighteen Brews" are eighteen kinds of brewed vegetables. The so-called "brewed vegetables" is a local specialty: add various seasonings to the meat filling, then fill them into a "coat" made of different vegetables or shells, or steam, or stew, and cook them to make "brewed".

Stewed old duck with ginkgo fruit is a "fist dish" in Guilin restaurants. The main raw materials are ginkgo (ginkgo) and old duck produced in Xing 'an and Lingchuan areas of Guilin. It is stewed with slow fire. It is characterized by slightly bitter soup, fruit aroma and sweet meat. It is rich in nutrients and is suitable for all seasons.

Steamed pork with lotus leaf powder is a traditional and famous dish. Use pork belly with skin, mung bean flour, lotus leaf, Guilin bean curd and various seasonings. Cook the meat, fry it in soy sauce, stick it with mung bean flour, wrap it in lotus leaf, place it in a plate, and steam it over high heat. It is characterized by green and yellow color, fragrant lotus leaf, soft and delicious, fat but not greasy, and has the functions of clearing away heat, detoxifying, and lowering cholesterol.

Lotus leaf duck is a famous traditional nourishing dish. Wrap the fat and tender ducks with green lotus leaves growing in the lotus root pond, and use fresh, powdery raw materials as the filling core. To cook this dish, you need to master the heat to bring out unique flavors. Because of the fresh lotus leaves, the fragrance is pleasant, the duck meat is smooth and tender, and the stuffing is delicious. It has the functions of nourishing the stomach, promoting fluid, consolidating essence and replenishing qi.

Stir-fried Lijiang shrimp is a typical flavor dish in Guilin. It is made from river shrimps from the Li River in Guilin as raw materials and added with a little Guilin Sanhua wine. Due to the clear water of the Lijiang River, the meat of the Lijiang shrimp is tender and pure, with original flavor, making the dish bright red as a gem, and the taste is crisp, tender and refreshing, fragrant but not strong. From this, you can taste the purity and sweetness of the Lijiang River water.

Guilin field snails are named because Guilin field snails grow in rice fields. It is characterized by large, fat meat and delicious taste. Boiling river snails must be served with Guilin's special sour pepper, and then added in various ingredients such as onions, ginger, and Sanhua wine to stir-fry. When eaten, it tastes sour, spicy and delicious, making it particularly appetizing. When cooking, the tail of the snail must be knocked off to make it easier to taste while cooking and to absorb the snail meat.

Guilin sponge cake is made by grinding glutinous rice mixed with appropriate amount of japonica rice into powder, slightly mixing with some yellow sugar water, and then spreading the semi-dry and semi-wet rice noodles layer by layer into a steaming bucket, steaming for one to two hours and getting cooked. The freshly steamed muffin cake is the best. When you cut the steaming muffin cake into slices, it is soft, refreshing, sweet and pleasant. If you add Lipu taro diced, the taste will be even more wonderful.

Fenli is ground into slurry with the best rice, rub into small cylinders, steam until 80% cooked, take out and air dry. Guilin Fenli is listed on the market and says that it should be cut into strips before and after the Spring Festival in winter, and served with bacon, celery or cauliflower, green garlic, etc., stewed and fried on a plate. It is characterized by beautiful color, delicious flavor, smoothness and refreshing.

At this point, our tour of Guilin is over. Good food, good play, and good scenery!

Guilin left a good impression on us.

Make a date, friend, it will be worth the trip.