Atlas of China
Guigang 贵港Guìgǎng
Lotus ponds, a Buddhist tea hill and the village where the Taiping rose
About Guigang
Guigang, nicknamed the 'Lotus City' for the lotus grown around the town, is a busy river port on a direct waterway to the Pearl River Delta. Downstream at Guiping, where the Yu and Qian rivers meet to form the Xun, temples and tea gardens climb the wooded Guiping Xishan (West Hill), and at nearby Jintian, Hong Xiuquan's followers began the Taiping Rebellion in January 1851. In the city, Nanshan Temple has stood in a cave in a craggy karst hill since 989.
What to eat in Guigang
- Guiping Xishan tea (桂平西山茶)
Listed sites in Guigang
17 sites in Guigang are on the official lists. Those with a page of their own link to it; the rest open as cards on the map.
- Anlan Riverside Park 安澜公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A riverside park running about 10 km along the south bank of the Yu River in central Guigang, from the Yujiang No. 2 Bridge downstream to the Anlan Pagoda. - Beidi Mountain 北帝山 4A scenic area · on the map
A forested mountain area on the southern flank of the Dayao Mountains in Dapeng township, Pingnan, rising to Beidi peak at about 1,300 m and covering some 22 km² of woods, gorges and waterfalls. - Bushan Gujun Culture Town 布山古郡 4A scenic area · on the map
A culture and leisure quarter of about 0.67 km² opposite the Qintang district government, built in old style around springs at the foot of Longtou Hill. - Dongmei Eco Park 垌美生态乐园 4A scenic area · on the map
A rural leisure park in the hills of Siwang township, set among rice fields, bamboo groves, streams and two old villages with temples and stone paths. - Foziling Wellness Resort 佛子岭康养度假区 4A scenic area · on the map
A hillside leisure and wellness resort in wooded country north-east of Pingnan, best known locally for its summer water park fed by mountain spring water, with large pools, slides and a children's splash area. - Gongzhou Park 龚州公园 4A scenic area · on the map
Pingnan's main town park, named after Gongzhou, the prefecture that had its seat here from the Tang to the Song. - Guigang Garden Expo Park 贵港市园博园 4A scenic area · on the map
A large landscaped garden-expo park in western Guigang, laid out around waterside wetlands and fields on the theme of Guigang as the 'lotus city'. - Guiping Xishan (West Hill) 桂平西山 4A scenic area · on the map
A wooded Buddhist hill, also called Siling Shan, rising just west of Guiping at the meeting of the Qian and Yu rivers, protected as a national scenic area and national geopark of about 13 km². - Hemei Qintang Lotus Park 荷美覃塘 4A scenic area · on the map
A lotus-growing park north of Qintang built from 2014 around the district's lotus-root farming, which has a history of more than a thousand years. - Jintian Uprising Site 金田起义地址 4A scenic area · National heritage site
The village of Jintian where Hong Xiuquan's God Worshippers declared their revolt on 11 January 1851, the start of the Taiping Rebellion. - Longtan National Forest Park 龙潭国家森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A national forest park in the hills north-west of Guiping, within the Dapingshan nature reserve and the Jintian state forest farm. - Nanshan Park and Temple, Guigang 南山公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A park on a craggy karst hill on the south side of Guigang, known for its caves and for Nanshan Temple, founded in 989 when a monk set up a shrine in a cave of Lion Head Hill. - Pingnan Xiongsen Animal World 雄森动物大世界 4A scenic area · on the map
A large private zoo and breeding centre of about 87 hectares on the edge of Pingnan, best known for its big numbers of tigers, African lions and black bears, with petting areas and other animals. - Pingtianshan National Forest Park 平天山国家森林公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A national forest park of about 1,676 hectares in the hills north-west of Guigang, with dense forest, canyons, waterfalls, tree ferns and hillside tea gardens. - Shanbian Village 山边村 4A scenic area · on the map
A rural tourism village in Xintang township on the southern edge of Guigang, named one of China's 'beautiful leisure villages'. - Xishanquan RV Campsite 西山泉房车露营基地 4A scenic area · on the map
A large car and RV campsite resort in the hills of Xishan town outside Guiping, rated a five-star campsite in Guangxi. - Site of the First CCP Guangxi Provincial Congress 中共广西省第一次代表大会旧址 National heritage site · on the map
An old house on Rongxing Street in central Guigang, once the home of Communist Party member Zhang Guocai and a secret liaison post, where the first congress of the Party's Guangxi provincial organisation was held in secret on 16 June 1928.
On the map
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