Guilin-Travel to China

Guilin is a historical and cultural city as well as a tourists' wonderland of

world fame. It literally means "cassia tree forest", named for the local cassia

trees, whose scent wafts through the city in autumn.

"Guilin boasts the most beautiful scenery under Heaven" is a saying popular among

its admirers. There are green hills and fields, forests of peculiar pinnacles and

the beautiful Li River winding through the city. From Guilin to Yangshuo, the

river travels 83 km with both shores decorated with "numerous green hills popped

up out of the ground," a poetic and picturesque environment in which one cannot

but feel relaxed and refreshed.

Guilin is a multinational city, which has many ethnic groups living here. There

are more than twenty nationalities, namely like Zhuang, Yao, Hui, Miao, Tong and

so on, with Han is the majority race that takes up about 85.22 per cent of the

population of 4.76 million. The diversity in dresses and social customs of

different ethnic groups offers colorful folk life and attracts large numbers of

tourists from home and abroad.

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