101Guide: Guilin Central Square - An Evening Walk

#guilin #100waysoftravel 👀 Introduction: Guilin (桂林) is a scenic town and one of the best-known tourist destinations in China 🇨🇳. These include Longsheng (Longji rice terraces), the Elephant 🐘 Trunk Hill, the Li River, which is printed on the back of ¥20 bank notes 💵, Yangshuo, a small county downstream from Guilin. This post only explores the surroundings of Guilin Central Square and aims to offer a quick guide for tourist here. 💡 Fun Fact: Guilin actually stands for “Forest of Sweet Osmanthus”, which is why you will notice Osmanthus everywhere around here. 🏖️ The Attractions: Our starting point was JieFang Bridge 🌉 (解放桥) which is a pretty good instagrammable spot 📸. Whilst the bridge 🌉 itself isn't really appealing (esp the daytime ☀️) but at night 🌃 .. the bridge has light blue lighting which looks rather cool. Not to be missed, there is also a Pagoda (Zhuangyuan Lang) to the North West. We made our way to the lower deck of Binjiang Road which you will find many livestream and music 🎶 enthusiasts doing live shows. The place is also famous with locals as a fishing 🎣 spot. On the BinJiang Road 滨江路, there is currently a long stretch of night-market which has food stalls, arts 🎨 & crafts stuffs, books 📚 and other interesting items for sale here. The place is super crowded especially around live performances of bands 🎸 and live streaming of singers. The crowd here comes from all walks of life 👭. We then proceeded to the Guilin Central Square Night Market which we stopped by for our dinner @ JinJiang PiJiu Yu 金奖啤酒鱼 for Guilin's Signature Beer Fish 🐠. The dish 🍲 fared averagely only here but I'm sure there are better ones around since we were spoilt for choices here at the night market. We made our way to Jiefang West Road which is also filled with a wide variety of food from western pizzas 🍕 to some local delicacies. Synonymous with the Guilin name, the Guilin Central Square Night Market is also famous for Osmanthus products which ranges from food, biscuits, perfume, coffee ☕ to tea 🍵. Basically you can find most edible products "flavored" with Osmanthus. I personally like the Bean Curd Osmanthus which is really nice and delicious 😋. Guilin is also well known for its snacks and the use of spices, especially chili. So for Chilli 🌶️ lovers you can consider buying some spices and food ingredients here. Anyway, the no 1 chili sauce here is made from fresh chili, garlic and fermented soybeans. 💡 Tip: It is considered as one of Guilin’s three treasures. To quench out thirst, we stopped at the Back Garden Irish Pub to basically chill and relax after a long walk. This place serves foreign draft beers 🍻 on-tap such as Tiger 🐯 Beer and Guinness Draft, which the manager claims they are the only one in the whole of Guilin. The manager and guests are nice and friendly too. #guilin #100waysoftravel 🔚 Conclusion Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 5/5 We took three hours to slowly stroll along the riverfront whilst enjoying the splendid view along with the panorama of the surroundings. It was a very relaxing and pleasing experience which we will highly recommend for tourists. 🔚 Conclusion Rating: 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 5/5 We took three hours to slowly stroll along the riverfront whilst enjoying the splendid view along with the panorama of the surroundings. It was a very relaxing and pleasing experience which we will highly recommend for tourists.