Southern China - From The Silken River To The Silver Strand

The Li river and the Karst peaks of Guilin form one of the most beautiful and most bizarre natural landscapes in China and are a “must” for any visitor to this wondrous country. Guilin is also an ideal starting point for exploring the autonomous region of Guangxi in Southern China. We venture off the beaten track and well-worn tourist trails to meet some fascinating people and hear their equally fascinating stories. The mountain peoples of the Dong minority, for example, who are famed for their peculiar marriage customs, their wild bullfights and exotic songs. From the mountains, the labyrinthine rice paddies wind like snakes southwards until they meet the newly constructed highways intended to bring the east coast boom to Guangxi. To the “trouser town of the world”, for example. This is what the little town of Fumian calls itself; here a few hundred families produce a half million pairs of trousers daily. The journey through Guangxi ends in the extreme south, on Beihai’s Silver Beach – where China’s new middle classes enjoy bathing in their own inimitable style.

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