Guangxi广西·桂
Karst peaks, river-rafting, and the most diverse minority culture in southern China.
Guangxi sits between Guangdong and Yunnan on the . Officially an — China's largest ethnic minority — it is the country's most photogenic , with the Li River at its heart.
Guilin, Yangshuo and the Longji rice terraces are the headline destinations, but the province extends to silver-roofed Dong villages, Beihai's tropical coast, and a Vietnamese border zone almost no foreign visitor reaches.
Modern Guangxi is also the between China and ASEAN — Nanning hosts the annual China-ASEAN Expo and the Pingxiang border crossing is the busiest China-Vietnam land port.
Top Attractions
Culture & Traditions
Zhuang Heritage
The Zhuang are China's largest ethnic minority — 17 million people, mostly in Guangxi. Bronze drum festivals, antiphonal love-song singing and pickled-sour cuisine remain everyday traditions.
Liu Sanjie Songs
The mythical Liu Sanjie ("Third Sister Liu") sang her way through the Guangxi karst defeating wicked landlords — her song-festivals each March 3rd in Yangshuo and beyond are major folk events.
Guilin Rice Noodles
A salty-and-spicy bowl of soft, hand-cut rice noodles topped with crisp peanuts, pickled vegetables and braised meat — Guilin's signature breakfast, served everywhere from 7am.
Dong Polyphonic Singing
The Dong people of north Guangxi sing in spontaneous multi-part harmony without conductor or instruments — a UNESCO masterpiece of intangible cultural heritage.
Vietnamese Border Cuisine
Cities like Pingxiang and Chongzuo eat pho-style rice noodles, drink condensed-milk drip coffee and sell tropical fruit by the truckload — Guangxi at its most Southeast Asian.
Cities
12 prefecture-level · sorted by tourist popularity- 1
Nanning
南宁CapitalRegional capital and ASEAN gateway — Qingxiu Mountain park, Nanhu Lake, the China-ASEAN Expo grounds (every September), and the international airport with direct flights to all 10 ASEAN capitals.
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Guilin
桂林Karst-landscape headquarters — Li River cruise launch point, Reed Flute Cave, Elephant Trunk Hill (the city's emblem), Two Rivers and Four Lakes night cruise, and the Guilin Rice Noodle birthplace.
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Yangshuo
阳朔County-level backpacker town in Guilin prefecture — Yulong River bamboo rafting, Moon Hill arch, West Street's bar district, and Yang Liping's "Impression Liu Sanjie" outdoor performance.
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Liuzhou
柳州Northern Guangxi industrial city — birthplace of "luosifen" (river snail rice noodles, the smelliest and most-loved Guangxi street food), Sanjiang Dong-minority villages 3h north, and the SAIC-Wuling automobile plant.
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Beihai
北海Beibu Gulf coastal city — Silver Beach (24 km of fine white sand), the 1880s Beihai Old Street treaty-port quarter, and Weizhou Island volcanic geopark (1.5h ferry).
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Guigang
贵港Pearl River navigation hub — the largest inland river port in Guangxi, the Buddhist Pinghong Tower (Tang dynasty), and the Junshan island in the Xunjiang River.
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Yulin
玉林Southeast Guangxi — Du Yang scenic area, the Chinese medicine wholesale market (one of the largest in southern China), and the controversial annual Lychee-and-Dog-Meat festival.
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Wuzhou
梧州Western-Pearl-River trading city historically linking Guangxi to Guangdong's Pearl River Delta — Han-dynasty Yuejiang Pavilion, the China-Hong Kong fluvial border, and "Liubao" black tea heritage.
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