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Yangshuo
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Overview
Yangshuo (ÑôË·, Y¨¢ngshu¨°) is one of China's gold-ticket draws. The once-peaceful settlement is now a collage of Chinese tour groups, wide-eyed Westerners,?construction and the glue that binds any tourist hot spot together ¨C touts. Come evening, Xijie is all thumping music and bristling with selfie-sticks, but go up a few flights to a hotel rooftop bar and behold the ethereal beauty of the surrounding karsts, their peaks lit up by searchlights.
Attractions
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Located in the southeastern corner of town, this is Yangshuo's main peak; it's also the most accessible (it can be climbed in half an hour). Because it¡
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When Xijie, the crowds and postcard hawkers get too much, head down the steps to the Li River. Unfolding before you is a beautiful panorama of karst peaks¡
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This small shrine to the 20th-century artist Xu Beihong (famed chiefly for his pictures of galloping horses) ¨C in a small one-storey house where he once¡
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