DAY 02： GUILIN TO LONGJI RISE TERRACE 

GUILIN WETLAND SUNRISE AND LONGJI RICE TERRACES SUNSET

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 RISE TERRACE TO YANGSHUO 

SUNRISE IN SEVEN STAR WITH MOON AND NING DRAGON FIVE TIGER

Climb about 30mins 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

Sunset Landscape Cuiping Hill

Tonight’s sunset is a beautiful shooting spot in the hilltop. The sun lights the fields and the two rivers meeting. There are magnificent mountains in the distance. We'll leave later in the afternoon because it's very photogenic 1-2 hours before sunset, especially when cumulus clouds form light.

Well stone steps to the hilltop and a viewing platform (but smaller) have been built by the locals. Takes 20 to 45 minutes depending on the heat, and fitness.

Return to Yangshuo Hotel

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： YANGSHUO

SUNRISE ON XIANGGONG HILL AND SUNSET WITH CORMORANT FISHING

Sunrise Landscape on Xianggong Hill

Leaving the hotel at about 03:30 am, we drive to the hill on the west side of Lijiang River about an hour north of Yangshuo. The geographical location is the most beautiful sunrise spot on the top of the mountain in the region, known as the Xianggong Hill, overlooking the most spectacular scenery of the Li River.

Path and Steps: Five hundred stone steps with handrail lead to the top of the mountain. This is one of the easiest hill to climb in our Guilin Photography trip. Most people take about 20 minutes, the fastest 10 minutes.

Porter

We can arrange for villagers we know to take your bag and tripod up and down for 150 yuan. Even at 4 am, they will be ready at the gate.

Lens: Most lenses work well here. Wide lenses ranging from 14-24 Nikon (16-35 Cannon) to 24-70 for the most shots, but sometimes can be capture isolated peaks in clouds with 70-200 mm lenses, especially in the case of the Cloud Sea. We never needed a range of 200, 135 even 150 millimeters in this place.

Local market visit

We take you to a local town for the market day, where you can see the local people cutting their hair; there are many opportunities for people to be realistic in their daily life.

Return to hotel

Visiting the Local Family

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

Longji

Pano Longji Rice Terrces, DJI Air2s, F2.8

Longji

Sunset Cormorant Fishing Shoot

Generally speaking, we spend at least two hours with fishermen. We're going to shoot until dusk and ask fishermen to light oil lamps at blue time.

Return to Hotel

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

DAY 5： YANGSHUO

SUNRISE WITH FISHERMAN AND SUNSET AT BRIDGE

Sunrise Landscape Riverside with Cormorant Fisherman

We will leave the hotel very early, at 03:45am, in order to capture sunrise on this beautiful and remote part of the Li River Sunrise with Cormorant Fisherman

Huixian Glass Fields Scenic Area is located in Huixian Town, Lingui District, Guilin City. Originally an ordinary paddy field, it has transformed into a breathtaking landscape due to its unique water quality and soil conditions. Under the sunlight, the fields shimmer like glass, creating a mirror-like effect that reflects the surrounding mountains and rivers, resembling a natural painting

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

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