Being a land with best landscape under the heaven, Guilin is a city enjoying a high reputation with breathtaking sceneries along the Li River. The Li River originates in the Mao’er Mountain of Xing’an County, to the northeast of Guilin. It flows for a distance of 437 kilometers through Guilin, Yangshuo and Pingle and Zhaoping counties and empties into the West River at Wulin.

The Li River becomes most picturesque between spring and summer when the hills are obscured by a thin veil of mists that one can only see their outline. Sometimes rain clouds may form a band obscuring only the middle section of the hills. Mountains take on different shaped. Some look like fleeing horse in stampede. Some present a shape of hump being abrupt uplift. As the clouds and mists wander by, the Li River presents the viewers with constantly changing and almost mysterious sights. With spring drizzling rain, the one along Li River in Misty rain can enjoy a surreal beauty of this dreamy and fantastic fairyland. Under the hazy drizzle, it is a wide expanse of mist-covered waters, layer upon layer of peaks shrouded in fine gauze, and floating clouds wind among bashful peaks. The Li River scenery in the misty rain is definitely the perfect representation of the Chinese landscape ideal which attracts a great number of visitors all around the world.

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