Yangshuo is a tiny ancient village, located 70 km from the resort city of Guilin. In Chinese the name of the settlement sounds like "bright moon".

The legend says that Yangshuo was founded in the era of the sun, that is over 1500 years ago. You'll be surrounded by the legendary Chinese karst hills village on a picturesque banks of the Lijiang river, Here, in the vicinity of the village, you can see the unique terraced fields where rice is grown.

For a long time Yangshuo remained unknown to the world village, which proceeded as usual measured life of employed day-to-day of the Chinese peasants. Time passed, and in the 80-ies of the past century information about the village first appeared in the popular Lonely Planet travel guide, therefore, a growing number of visitors from the West tourists.

Local residents began to open to a café and to offer hospitality that had a significant impact on external and internal appearance of the village for the sake of a few tens of years, Yangshuo has become a comfortable place with good infrastructure, without losing an ounce of charm, characteristic of ancient settlements.

Among the main features of this area can be called karst peaks of limestone, which over several centuries has eroded, so has gained such a beautiful and unusual look. Their total number is 18. Domestic wash water in karst mountains, caves, which are also becoming natural attractions of the surrounding area Yangshuo.

If we talk about entertainment, we in Yangshuo there are many of them – you can rent a scooter or Bicycle to explore the scenic surroundings of the village, and you can go rafting on a bamboo raft on one of the cleanest rivers of China – the Li river. Equally common here climbing, and in the morning there is the opportunity to climb up in a balloon and admire the views of this corner of the planet.