Pauline D. Loh pays a pilgrimage to the world-famous Guilin hills and the river that flows through them. Have you noticed the beautiful scenery on the back of a Chinese 20-yuan note? Even in sepia ...

In the world's eyes, Guilin's karst hills and jade waters are quintessential China. Images of Guilin's iconic karst peaks dignify conference rooms and lobbies across China and grace China's office ...

and left its spiny hills topped with fortifications long before that. Vast numbers of tourists arrive in Guangxi's Guilin each year to view the city's surrounding karst peaks, or to weave between ...

Guilin's fame and artistic tradition played a part in the choice, as did the opportunity to provide employment in a county where land was too poor to farm. Today, more than 500 people work at Yuzi ...

Guilin, located in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous ... thanks to its abundance of limestone karst hills and natural wonders. Elephant Trunk Hill, Reed Flute Cave, and the Shanhu and Ronghu lakes at ...

Further south, green hills began to rise on the horizon ... Then, unannounced, the celebrated pea-green limestone peaks of Guilin emerged. Countless and hairpin-shaped, they gave the impression ...

Guilin, located in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous ... thanks to its abundance of limestone karst hills and natural wonders.