How to get there:

There is no airport in Yangshuo, so tourists can only fly to Guilin and then take a bus to Yangshuo. From the airport, you can take the airport bus to Guilin, and then take the shuttle bus from Guilin to Yangshuo. The airport bus fare is 21 yuan/person. The bus fare from Guilin to Yangshuo is 11 yuan/person, and the direct express bus is 13 yuan/person. If you take a taxi directly from the airport to Yangshuo, it will save time, about an hour and a half. Of course, the cost will increase a lot accordingly. It is best for 3~4 people to share a car. Calling a car at Guilin Airport costs 311~411 yuan/car; It's much cheaper to call a car from Yangshuo, about 171~211 yuan/car, and the models are Santana.

Guilin has flights to and from major cities such as Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Chongqing, Chengdu, Kunming, Haikou, Wuhan, Zhengzhou, Xi 'an and Shantou. For details, please consult the local air ticket agency.

Railway: There is no railway in Yangshuo, which is a pity for a famous county rich in tourism resources. However, Yangshuo, which has no rumbling trains, retains a quiet natural scenery and a relatively isolated ancient style. Friends who want to travel to Yangshuo by train need to take Guilin as a transit point. After arriving in Guilin, there is a shuttle bus to Yangshuo on the south side of the railway station square. It should be noted that the trains to Guilin are mostly passing trains, and there are almost no departure trains, so it is difficult to book return tickets during the tourist season.

Highway: National Highway 321 runs through Yangshuo County, 65km from Guilin in the north and 554km from Guangzhou in the south. If you transfer from Guilin to Yangshuo, there is a shuttle bus to Yangshuo on the south side of the railway station square. The fare is RMB 11, and there is a bus every 15 minutes on average, and the departure time is from 6: 31 to 21: 31. In addition, you can also take a direct express bus at Guilin bus terminal, and the fare is 13 yuan. The bus terminal is in the north of the railway station. Take the bus for one stop and walk for about 11 minutes.

There are long-distance shuttle buses to and from Shenzhen, Dongguan, Guangzhou, Wuzhou and other places, among which Shenzhen and Guangzhou have the most trains, different models and different prices. The most expensive is the luxury direct sleeper bus, which takes about 11 hours to Shenzhen, and the fare is 221 yuan; Guangzhou is 151 yuan, this kind of car does not stop halfway, and it is in good condition and has high safety. Although the fare of other ordinary sleeper buses is only half that of luxury buses, they are mixed with people, mixed with passengers and goods, often stop, and the time is uncertain. When choosing such a car, you must take good care of your belongings, especially at night!

Travel in Yangshuo:

The West Street and Xianqian Street in Yangshuo are pedestrian streets. No motor vehicles are allowed to enter, even bicycles should be pushed, or they will be taken down by the defense team immediately. The county town is really small, even if you just stroll around, you will have to go around for half a day. You need the following transportation to get to the scenic spot.

Shuttle bus: It is more cost-effective to take the shuttle bus to distant towns. There are shuttle buses to Xingping, Di Yang, Jinbao, Liugong and Puyi at Yangshuo Bus Station, which usually leave every fifteen minutes, and the fare is only a few yuan.

surface: traffic to nearby places, such as Gaotian (big banyan tree, Moon Mountain scenic spot) and welfare direction, is carried by silver-white facets. 1.5 yuan/person, wave and stop. You can go to the bus station or wait at the post office opposite the west street.

Tricycle: There are motorcycles and tricycles at the west street entrance, which can take you to the big banyan tree, Moon Mountain and other scenic spots. 11-21 yuan/vehicle, which can carry up to 3 people. In summer, it is cool to take a "cross-child" tour, and you can stop for sightseeing or "click" at any time, which is convenient to "kill" a remote small village with extremely poor road conditions. The dust is flying all the way, and chickens fly and dogs jump, which is quite a sense of "sweeping into the village".

battery car: it runs between Lijiang pier and parking lot, and the fare is RMB 11/person. Expensive! But very environmentally friendly.

Bicycle: Renting a bicycle to ride slowly and leisurely, not only enjoying the scenery, but also exercising, is the most distinctive way of sightseeing in Yangshuo. See the detailed introduction of cycling routes later for the location and price of renting a bicycle.

Living in Yangshuo

On Yangshuo Street, I often see the scenes of "donkeys" carrying dozens of liters of big bags, exaggeratedly hanging tents and damp-proof mats, dripping with kettles, cups, trekking poles and other bits and pieces, busy looking for an inn. Yangshuo is not a barbarian land. As far as accommodation is concerned, it is no exaggeration to say that it is all over the street. There are hundreds of hotels, hotels, inns and family hotels of various grades, which are full of streets and alleys. Except for the "May 1" and "Eleventh" periods, there are plenty of beds available at other times. Short-term stay, of course, West Street is the first choice, restaurants and bars are close at hand, and you can fully feel the life of FB. You don't have to be afraid to stay in the bar at night, and you can throw yourself on the bed in a few steps, which is very convenient. Of course, as a deep traveler with plenty of time, staying for a month is not too long. Find a quiet inn or family hotel in the alley, and it costs only five or six hundred yuan a month, with dessert in your mouth, more magnetic tricks with the landlord, and often you can have a meal.

Bailelai Resort Hotel: West Street of Yangshuo. The only international resort hotel in Yangshuo has no star rating, but its "software and hardware" are all above Samsung. This garden-style hotel has a deep courtyard, lush greenery and elegant pavilions. I didn't know it was in the park.

Hanas Restaurant: No.31 Xianqian Street. The four-story building behind the bar is the habitat of rock climbers. Maybe a plain-looking guest official staying in the hotel is an "ouchi master" of rock climbing.

Hongfu Hotel: No.79 West Street. Living in the ancient Jiangxi guild hall, the music is around the beam, the ancient style still exists, and the tea is unique. Inadvertently, time goes back, as if returning to the post station where merchants gathered hundreds of years ago. The hotel is decorated in a simple and elegant way, and the rooms are spacious.

Aihua Hotel: Located in West Street, the environment is good and the price is real. There is a great bar and a band.

Culture Hotel: Located in Xianqian Street, it is an established hotel.

California Hotel: No.35 Xianqian Street, on a branch street of West Street, next to Fokko in Yangshuo. When I saw the signboard of this hotel, I always felt deja vu, and I suddenly remembered the Hotel California (California Hotel) by the Eagles, a well-known old song. The boss is also an authentic American, often sitting in the sun at the door of the store with a cigar in his mouth and whisky. The rooms facing the street on the second and third floors of the hotel are the best, and there is a big balcony overlooking Xianqian Street. Other rooms are slightly damp.

Chen Gongxing Hotel: hidden in the alley at the intersection of West Street and Xianqian Street. The boss is a teacher of Yangshuo Middle School, surnamed Chen. The room conditions are average, but the price is cheap.

Yangshuo International Youth Hostel: No.112 West Street. The conditions and prices of youth hotels have no advantage here, which is different from the international chain "youth hotels" in other places.

Xia Weiyi Inn: A small inn is full of warmth. The boss is a handsome and amiable guy from Northeast China. The store has free Internet access and IP phone calls.

In fact, there are too many hotels in Yangshuo, and the impression varies from person to person. In many cases, it is subject to subjective feelings. You might as well come to Yangshuo and find an inn for a day, and then change to another one according to your mood and environment.

Eating in Yangshuo

Who can say that "eating" is not an important part of tourism? Today we will nag you about Yangshuo's food. Yangshuo is a global village, with all kinds of tourists from China, foreign countries, young people, old people, meat eaters and vegetarians. Over time, the catering in Yangshuo has formed an eclectic and Chinese-foreign combination. The restaurants in West Street are mainly western food. Restaurants outside West Street only offer Chinese food. As the saying goes, "* mountains eat mountains, * water eats water". Yangshuo people who have lived by the Lijiang River for generations certainly like to eat fish. There are quite a lot of crucian carp, grass carp, carp, catfish, hairy bone fish, swordfish, mandarin fish, and fish in the river. It makes me swallow my saliva. Here, I will give you a detailed introduction of the most famous features of our Yangshuo:

Beer fish: the most famous local dish, a good thing to eat when you come to Yangshuo. The method of making beer fish is unique. When cooking, first kill the fresh Lijiang fish without scraping scales, put it in an oil pan, fry it on both sides until golden brown, then add a lot of beer, soy sauce, pepper, fungus and tomato, and cover it until it tastes delicious before eating. Carp is generally used, which is fat but not greasy, spicy and palatable, with a slightly sweet taste, and the price is 18 yuan/kg. In addition, there are hairbone fish, swordfish and mandarin fish to choose from. These kinds of fish have fine meat and fewer thorns, and of course the price is much higher than that of carp, usually 41 yuan/kg. When ordering, be sure to ask the price clearly to avoid being slaughtered. In addition, if you can't eat spicy food, be sure to tell your boss that you eat chili pepper's grade. In several food stalls on Diecui Road, beer fish is the most authentic. Things like "Sister Xie", "One Tile" and "Sister Peng" are more authentic. In addition, beer duck, snail wine, grapefruit wine, etc. are also the specialties of food stalls.

Friendly reminder: Don't believe the restaurants in West Street boasting about how good their beer fish is.

snail brewing: Yangshuo claims to have "eighteen kinds of brewing", such as snail brewing, tofu brewing, eggplant brewing, bitter gourd brewing, grapefruit brewing and so on. The so-called "fermented" is a unique local way of eating. Simply put, spices, Jiang Mo and other seasonings are added to chopped lean meat and then stuffed into different carriers to make different "fermented". In addition to the above-mentioned raw materials, there are chopped snail meat, mint leaves and a little sanhua wine, which are stuffed into the washed snail shell with its tail cut, and finally fried in a pot, which becomes a good dish with spicy and delicious aftertaste.

Baba in Yangshuo: The local snacks in Yangshuo are usually made on holidays, weddings and funerals, and shared with relatives and friends. Now, as a special snack, it can also be bought in the market. The raw materials of Baba are glutinous rice, peanuts, chestnuts and sesame seeds, which can be steamed, boiled or fried. But if your stomach is not good, don't eat too much. The glutinous rice food is not easy to digest.

Guilin rice noodles: The "skinny Guilin rice noodle shop" next to the beer fish food stall is basically the best rice noodle shop in Yangshuo, 1.5 yuan/Erliang and 2 yuan/Sanliang. Soup should be filled in the bucket by yourself, and there are side dishes such as fried soybeans, boiled kelp and sour radish on the table, which can be added according to your own taste.

farmhouse meal: only when you go to a farmer's house can you have pure farmhouse meal. Like chicken soup and fresh vegetables, stir-fried dishes are unique to farmers. You can eat freshly picked watermelons in summer and golden grapefruit in autumn. There is a man named "Lao Mo" in Tiger Head Village opposite Moon Mountain. He is honest, childlike and good at cooking. You can call him an hour in advance and ask him to stew the chicken soup first. When you arrive, the delicious soup will be served.

midnight snack: soak in the bar until eleven or two o'clock, and stroll to the west street to have a toothache. What kind of glutinous rice balls, stewed chicken cups, stewed brain with gastrodia elata, sweet wine and eggs, clear and cool, etc., are enough for you to eat, and the price is quite cheap.

soaking in Yangshuo

Visitors who come to Yangshuo will invariably gather in the West Street. This is a small street only eight meters wide and about 511 meters long. It is paved with local marble with betel nut pattern. After hundreds of years of trampling, it is still dark and shiny. On both sides of the road are old brick houses left over from the Qing Dynasty. The characteristics of cornices, blue tiles, white walls and red windows reveal the unique charm of small towns in the south and the simplicity and elegance of Lingnan architecture.

West Street is the most historic street in Yangshuo, the contact and integration point between Chinese and Western cultures, the largest English corner in China, and a hotbed of transnational marriage and love. This street with a harmonious atmosphere of Chinese and western cultures is now a world-famous street. The perennial stay of western tourists makes English the most common communication tool here. Uncle of antique shop, little sister of western restaurant, aunt who rents bicycles, and even old woman who sells bananas can bargain with foreign tourists in English. It is hard to believe that Yangshuo is so "international" if you don't see it with your own eyes. Here, every year, young people are interpreting the romantic story of the marriage between China and the West. While enjoying the poetic life here, they are passionately in love. As the saying goes, "Love has no national boundaries"

Antique calligraphy and painting shops, restaurants, bars, cafes, Internet cafes and craft shops stand on both sides of the street. In this remote small town in the west of China, in this 511-611-meter-long street, more foreigners than Hong Kong Lan Kwai Fong are attracted. They carry huge bags and come and go. At this time, you begin to realize that the density of "foreigners" here is higher than that of the embassy district in Beijing.

When dusk falls, Yangshuo Bar Street appears. On one side of the street, antiques and souvenirs are sold. Mandarin, Guangxi dialect and even foreign languages are filled in the humid air. The clever tongue of vendors makes banknotes communicate ancient times and reality in the night. On the other hand, the rich and warm bar street in Yangshuo flows gently in the light, shadow and music, with an exotic atmosphere. The night in Yangshuo is really charming!

All the bars in West Street provide catering services, which can also be said to be western restaurants. Some bars have televisions and free movies. Some have foreign language books, novels, masterpieces, magazines and so on; Some have message boards and message books, which record travelers' emotional stories; Some computers have free internet access; Some have kittens, puppies and small pets ... each with its own characteristics.

Red Star Express: Assorted food, salmon and pizza are the best, while local steak, black pepper steak and garlic bread are all excellent. The boss is a tattooed Singaporean named Ali. There are hemp fiber, muskets and ethnic ornaments hanging on the wall, and several foreign car brands are nailed to the bar. The most eye-catching one is the red five-pointed star at the door, which is quite tasteful.

No hotel: Do you know which hotel dares to say "no" to customers so much? No.86 West Street dares not to have a restaurant, because what they sell is "no". Look at their menu and you will understand.

no hot beer meiyou WARM BEER

no bad food meiyou LOUSY FOOD

no rip-offs meiyou RIDOFFS

no bad service attitude meiyou BAD SERVICE

no annoying music meiyou BAD MUSIC

. > there is no special coffee meiyou Special COFFEE

there is no special pizza meiyou Special PIZZA

except for the above "no", the snake meat here is original and has local characteristics.

Traveler: Cheese bacon pizza, beef and mashed potatoes pie, Luo Sanya, spaghetti with meat sauce and western-style orange juice duck are all very delicious. The boss is a very simple local girl named "Xiao Zhang". On the wall opposite the restaurant, there are portraits of die-hard customers in the bar, and on the right wall, there are many signatures and messages. See if you can find a small place and sign your name.

Moon Restaurant: English name