DAY 02： GUILIN TO LONGJI

Photography Highlights: GUILIN WETLAND SUNRISE, LONGJI RICE TERRACES SENSET & BLUE HOUR

Check out at hotel in the early morning.

Drive about  1 hour to Tianxin Village to shoot sunrise with ancient stone bridge + farmer + buffalo.

Guilin Wetland Sunrise

Tianxin Village is a relatively remote shooting paradise for the photographyer.  It is 35 kms far away from Guilin city. In the early morning without tourists, you can shoot and create freely, but occasionally there are some local photographers. The Local farmer ware the old Palm leaves raincoat  with the buffalo will be waiting for you even in the early morning.

Pano  Guilin Wetland Sunrise, Connan 5D IV, 24-105mm F4

Guillin

Pano  Guilin Wetland Sunrise, Connan 5D IV, 24-105mm F4

Guillin

Zhuangyuan Bridge

With a long cultural history and beautiful idyllic scenery, it has been greatly appreciated by many photographers. but more and more photographers and tourists come to Zhuangyuan Bridge for photo and making the unknown Tianxin Village more famous. There are two stone bridges in the Zhuangyuan Bridge, which has been discovered by photographers in recent years and has become one of the  photography highlights in Guilin.

Guilin Wetland Sunrise, Connan 5D IV, 24-105mm F4

Guillin

DAY 3:  Longji Rice Terrace Sunrise 

Photography Highlights: SEVEN STAR WITH MOON SUNRISE, FAMILY VISITING, RICE TERRACE SUNSET

Climb about 15mins with well stone steps for the sunrise place (Seven star with moon view piont ) to capture the sidelight of the rice terraces  until 08:00 am and back to the hotel for breakfast.

Longji Rice Terrces Sunrise, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4

Longji

Longji Rice Terrces, DJI Air2s, F2.8

Longji

Check out Pingan Hotel

Downhill for 20-30 mins to drive to Dazhai Village for the Yao minority family visiting.

Visit a local Yao Minority farmers home for portrait and to see the local house to shooting the daily life inside the house.

Longji Rice Terrces Sunrise, Connan 5D IV, 14 mm F1.8

Longji

Hike about 1.5 hour to the hotel or 20 mins to take the local Golf car the hilltop[ parking. and than walk through the village with the path and hillup. High mountain behind the Tiantouzhai Village, so the sun go down early and disappeared early. but the sidelight is beautful to cature, you will shoot the beautful rice terraces in the fields，or waiting the good light in the view piont platform.

Longji Rice Terrces Sunrise, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4

Longji

Longji Rice Terrces Sunrise, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4

Longji

Check in at Longji Tiantouzhai Hotel

DAY 4： LONGJI TO YANGSHUO 

Photography Highlights: JINKENG RICE TERRACES SUNRISE,  LANDSCAPE Mt. TOP SUNSET

Leave the hotel early and waking 15 mins  in order to cature sunrise in the view No 1 platform. Waiting for the good lights in the rice terraces and the villages untill o7:30 or walk around the rice fields.

Jinkeng Terrces Sunrise, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4

Longji

Pano Longji Rice Terrces, DJI Air2s, F2.8

Longji

Back the hotel for breakfast.

Downhill for 30mis to the parking  and drive 3-4 hours to the Yangshuo to capture the landscape sunset in the the mountain top with around 750 steps. 

Pano Longji Rice Terrces, DJI Air2s, F2.8

Longji

Sunset Landscape Cuiping Hill
There is a nice shooting spot in the mountaintop with well good steps to climb, it will be 20--35 to hillup depending on how fast you are (the fastest is 10 mins). The sun lights with the fields and the two river（tortoise river）meeting together.

Pano Cuiping Hilltop Sunset, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Yangshuo

Cuiping Hilltop Sunset, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Yangshuo

The Magnificent landscape view in the distance. we will arrival the hilltop as early as we can, so the the shooting platform is small and more and more local photographer to visiting. untill 07:30--08:00 pm down hill the mountain cuase after sunset the blue hour especially therie is cumulus clouds form light around the village and the tortoise river.

Cuiping Hilltop Sunset, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Yangshuo

Down hill and drive for 45 mins to Yangshuo.
Check in hotel

DAY 5： YANGSHUO

Photography Highlights: LIRIVER  SUNRISE, LOCAL LIFE SHOOTING, SUNSET WITH FISHERMAN 

Wake up early and leave the hotel at 04:00 am to capture the sunrise on the beartiful romote Liriver in Xingping.  Drive for 45 mins to the riverside and to capture the blue hour on the Liriver. 

Liriver Blue Hour, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Xingping

It is said that Guilin is the most beautiful landscape scenery in the world. "Xingping's Karst mountain is like a painting, and water is clear like a crystal.  " The best part of Guilin Landscape Scenery is in Xingping and Yangshuo. Nature is amazing,  is beautiful, poetic and picturesque, just like stepping into a paradise.


Cormorant Fishing, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Xingping

Liriver Sunrise, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Xingping


Clean the Walking Path, Connan 5D IV, 50 mm F2.8
Xingping

Visit a local farmers family for portrait and to see the local house, to shooting the daily life.

Unique local 100 years house, the loclas still leave inside for6 people and 3 generations, the chicken free running everywhere near the house, the living room and the kitche are wonderful shooting highlights.

Feeding Chichen in the front yard, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Yangshuo

Reading 0ld Book in the living room, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Yangshuo

Sunset with cormorant fishing
Drive 1 hour to the Xingping Liriverside to capture the sunset with the cormorant fishing . the beartiful landscape riverside and  the fishman wear the local raincoat with the cormorants, the lamp light. Wa, there is a photogenic highlights around the blue hour a hundreds of hundres photo you will shooting.

Liriver Sunset, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Xingping

Liriver Blue Hour with fishman, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Xingping

Nature posture of lighting on his bamboo raft, casting net, cormorant fishing. When nightfall, you can see the local fisherman come and punting on Li river, light up a fire lamp like a bright star floating on the water, with counter of peaks as backdrop.

Pano Liriver Blue Hour, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Xingping

Cormorant fishing is unique in China, and is a popular attraction for the photographer in Xingping with landscaple sunset on the Lirier.


Casting Net , Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Xingping

Casting Net, DJI Air2S F2.
Xingping

Blue Hour with fishman , Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Xingping

Return to Hotel
Drive 45 mins to the hotel and rest the evening. Good sleep for tomorrow morning.

DAY 6： YANGSHUO

Photography Highlights: XIANGGONG HILL  SUNRISE, OLD TOWN VISITING, LIRIVER SUNSET 

Leave the hotel at 03:30 am, drive 45 mins arrival the Xianggong hill before 04:30 am, cuase the gate open at 04:30 am, and a lot of photographers and tourists will be coming.  Climbed the mountain with well steps to shoot the sunrise in the hilltop of Xianggong hill(there are 500 steps in Xianggong hill, and it takes about 10-15 minutes to climb, and the fastest speed is 7 minutes).Pano Xianggong Hill Sunrise, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Yangshuo

Xianggong Hill 
There are five viewing platforms of different heights on the top of the mountain. Each floor is two or three meters apart, which can give us a better shooting angle. Xianggong hill sunrise is the most beautiful sunrise in Guilin. Looking at the mountains in the distance, I have a special sense of natural beauty. 

Different height photography platforms, of course, the highest one is the best. I like the corner on the left of each floor. Cause I like to shoot the panorama of Xianggong hill.

Pano Xianggong Hill Sunrise, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Yangshuo

Shooting a sunrise will be one of the most imporant things for the photographers have to do during travels. Every photographer who comes to Yangshuo must not miss a beautiful and spectacular sunrise at Xianggong mountain on the side of Lijiang River. 

Xianggong Hill Sunrise, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Yangshuo

The sea of clouds, sunrise, sun rays, and golden clouds here attract numerous photographers and enthusiasts, even the tourist.

Pano Xianggong Hill Sunrise, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Yangshuo

Xianggong Hill Blue Hour, Connan 5D IV, 14 mm F1.8
Yangshuo

Return to Hotel for breakfast

Drive for 1 hour, then walk for 20 minutes in the Daxu old town and knock at the door in the local family if we have good luck and the locals will open the door and welcome us and show how beartiful home there have and nice for portrait.

The locals walk on the street, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Daxu Old Town

Dry Peanuts, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Daxu Old Town

Reading Old News Peaper, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Daxu Old Town

Dive 1.5 hours to the riverside to capture the sunet and the blue hour. and return the hotel about 1 hour.

Liriver Sunset, Connan 5D IV, 14 mm F1.8
Xingping

Pano Liriver Sunset, DJI Air2S F2.
Xingping

Liriver Blue Hour, Connan 5D IV, 14 mm F1.8
Xingping

DAY 7： YANGSHUO

Photography Highlights: XLIRIVER SUNRISE WITH CORMORANT FISHING

Drive 1 hour, walk 15 mins through the path and the fields to capture the blue hour on the remote photography highlights in the early morning.


LirIver Blue Hour, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Yangshuo

Fishman, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Yangshuo

It is a romote photography highlights, more quiet, no tourise, less photographer even the locals and the most beautifull place for shooting.


Pano Liriver Sunrise with fishman, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Yangshuo

Liriver Sunrise, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Yangshuo

To capture local fisherman paddle along the Li River with the cormorants.  Not to mention the stunning karst rock formations that surround you in 360 degrees for as far as the eye can see.  Calling Yangshuo“scenic” would be a bit of an understatement: its bona fide jaw-dropping.   It’s the kind of place you get to and then immediately fall in love.  


Liriver Sunrise, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Yangshuo

Liriver Sunrise, Connan 5D IV, 24-105 mm F4
Yangshuo

Ahead to the airport or the railway station for the next city.