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Two Rivers and Four Lakes & Elephant Trunk Hill 两江四湖·象山Liǎng Jiāng Sì Hú · Xiàng Shān
5A scenic area · Guilin, Guangxi
- Time needed
- Half a day
- Days to budget
- Half a day
- City
- Guilin
- Region
- Guangxi
- Type
- Nature
- Listed as
- 5A scenic area
About Two Rivers and Four Lakes & Elephant Trunk Hill
Central Guilin's ring of waterways, which links the Li and Taohua rivers with Ronghu, Shanhu, Guihu and Mulong lakes and was dredged and joined into one loop around 2001, with lakeside parks, bridges and the Sun and Moon Pagodas on Shanhu Lake. At its southern end Elephant Trunk Hill, the city's emblem, stands where the Taohua River meets the Li, its arch, Water-Moon Cave, making the hill look like an elephant drinking from the river. Boat tours circle the waterways, and the floodlit lakes are a popular evening sight.
How to get to Two Rivers and Four Lakes & Elephant Trunk Hill
In the centre of Guilin: the lakes are a short walk from Central Square, and Elephant Trunk Hill is about 1 km south-east on Binjiang Road.
Nearby
- Longji Rice Terraces 龙脊梯田 60 km
Rice paddies stacked up the mountains like the scales on a dragon's back - Li River & Yangshuo 漓江与阳朔 60 km
Limestone peaks, bamboo rafts and bike rides through rice paddies
Also within 20 km: Former Guangxi Provincial Art Hall 广西省立艺术馆旧址 (under 10 km), Jingjiang Princes' Palace & Solitary Beauty Peak 靖江王城·独秀峰 (under 10 km), Seven Star Park 七星公园 (under 10 km), Nanxi Hill Park 南溪山公园 (under 10 km), Guilin Office of the Eighth Route Army 八路军桂林办事处旧址 (under 10 km), West Hill Park 西山公园 (under 10 km).
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