Guizhou贵州·黔 / 贵
Waterfalls, Miao silver, and China's last undiscovered minority province.
Guizhou is a rugged, province in the southwest, with peaks even more concentrated than Guangxi but a fraction of the foreign visitors.
It is home to — the silver-decked Miao, the blue-dyed Bouyei and the Dong with their drum-tower villages — and to at Huangguoshu.
The province has reinvented itself in the last decade as China's — both Apple's iCloud China datacentre and the world's largest radio telescope (FAST) sit on its karst plateau.
Top Attractions
Culture & Traditions
Miao Silver Heritage
Miao women wear their entire family wealth in silver — full headdress, neck rings, and embroidered skirts, especially at the spring Lusheng Festival in Kaili and Xijiang.
Dong Wooden Architecture
The Dong build entire villages of un-nailed wooden drum towers, wind-and-rain bridges and stilt houses. Their polyphonic choral singing is on UNESCO's intangible heritage list.
Chinese Sour-Soup Fish Hotpot
Tomato-and-red-rice fermented sour soup is the Miao's signature hotpot — a base utterly different from Sichuan, with whole river fish poached in it.
Moutai Baijiu
Maotai-style sorghum liquor, fermented in stone pits along the Chishui River, is China's most prestigious baijiu — a single bottle of vintage Moutai can outprice a fine Bordeaux.
Bouyei Indigo Heritage
The Bouyei people dye fabric with indigo and wax-resist patterns — the same tradition that gave the region its blue traditional dress and its modern handicraft markets.
Cities
10 prefecture-level · sorted by tourist popularity- 1
Guiyang
贵阳CapitalProvincial capital and big-data hub — Jiaxiu Pavilion on the Nanming River, Qianling Mountain Hongfu Temple, Zunyi Conference Memorial (2h south), and the airport gateway to all of Guizhou.
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Anshun
安顺Huangguoshu Waterfall gateway — also Longgong Cave, Tianxing Bridge karst landscape, the world's 2nd-largest cave (Miao Karst), and Wulingyuan-style stone-forest geopark.
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Qiandongnan (Kaili)
黔东南（凯里）Miao and Dong autonomous prefecture — Xijiang Qianhu Miao Village, Zhaoxing Dong Village, Zhenyuan ancient town, and the Sister's Meal Festival.
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Zunyi
遵义Northern Guizhou — Zunyi Conference Memorial (the 1935 meeting that put Mao in command of the Long March), Loushan Pass battlefield, and the Chishui River Danxia geopark.
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Qiannan (Duyun)
黔南（都匀）Southern Guizhou — Libo Karst UNESCO site, FAST telescope at Pingtang, Duyun's Maojian green tea, and Tianyan astronomy park.
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Tongren
铜仁Northeast Guizhou — Fanjingshan UNESCO mountain, Wuyang River boat tours, and the Yelang Valley shrine to a Han-era kingdom that overlapped Yunnan-Guizhou.
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Bijie
毕节Western Guizhou — Baili Dujuan (100-li Azalea Park), Caohai Lake bird reserve, and the Wumeng Mountain alpine grasslands.
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Liupanshui
六盘水Mountain prefecture marketed as "China's Cool Capital" — summer temperature retreat, Wumeng grassland skiing in winter, and the Niangniang Mountain karst geopark.
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