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every 30 minutes) and ask to get off at Heping . From the road junction (or the
ticket office three minutes' walk away), minibuses trundle between Longsheng
and the rice terraces, stopping to pick up passengers to Dazhai (¥8, 45
minutes, every 30 minutes, 7am to 6pm) and Ping'an (¥7, 30 minutes, every
30 minutes, 7.40am to 5pm). Buses to Guilin (¥30, 1½ hours, 6.30am to 6pm)
also stop over here.
Yangshuo
0773 / POP 310,000
Seasoned travellers to Guangxi spend as little time in Guilin as possible, pre-
ferring to make Yangshuo their base, though many of these veterans will gripe
about Yangshuo's lack of authenticity - 'too many tourists', they complain.
Outside of town, however, Yangshuo's dramatic karst landscape is surreal
and the stuff of Chinese landscape paintings. Take a leisurely bamboo-raft ride
or cycle through the dreamy valleys and you'll see.
