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Liuzhou 柳州Liǔzhōu
Pungent snail noodles, a looping river and the covered bridges of the Dong
About Liuzhou
Liuzhou wraps around a loop of the Liu River among karst hills, an industrial city of car and machinery plants that is also home to luosifen, a pungent rice-noodle soup made with river-snail broth and sold in packets across China. The Tang writer Liu Zongyuan died here in 819 and is remembered at Liuhou Park. To the north, Dong villages in Sanjiang gather around drum towers and roofed bridges such as the one at Chengyang, and Rongshui is a Miao autonomous county.
What to eat in Liuzhou
- Luosifen (螺蛳粉)
Featured places in Liuzhou
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Chengyang Eight Villages 程阳八寨
Dong villages of timber drum towers and a covered bridge, set among paddy fields
Listed sites in Liuzhou
47 listed sites are in Liuzhou. These are the 42 rated 5A or 4A; see all 47 in the Guangxi list.
- Bagongtang Wetland Park 岜公塘湿地公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A wetland park of about 107 hectares in the new town of Liujiang District, created from a large pond and opened in October 2019. - Bailiandong Cave Science Museum 白莲洞洞穴科学博物馆 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A museum at Bailian Cave, a limestone cave about 1,870 m long south of Liuzhou where digs since 1956 have yielded stone tools, human teeth, animal fossils and traces of fire spanning roughly 37,000 to 7,000 years ago. - Baipeng Lotus Garden 百朋荷苑 4A scenic area · on the map
A lotus-growing area at Baipeng, the centre of Liujiang's double-crop lotus-root farming, with about 45 hectares of lotus fields in a scenic area of about 79 hectares. - Buyang Xianren Mountain Tea Hills 布央仙人山 4A scenic area · on the map
Tea gardens covering the hillsides of Buyang, a Dong village in Bajiang township, at about 600 to 1,000 m, where tea is the main crop and the early-spring harvest is the local speciality. - Danzhou Old Town 丹洲古城 4A scenic area · on the map
A walled old town on an island in the Rong River that served as the seat of Huaiyuan county (renamed Sanjiang in 1914) through the Ming, Qing and Republican periods. - Dong Tiangong Cultural Area 侗天宫 4A scenic area · on the map
A complex of new Dong-style timber buildings, including drum towers and covered corridors, around a cultural square in Guyi, Sanjiang's county town, opened in 2021 among 15 old sweetgum trees aged 100 to 200 years. - Dule Rock Scenic Area 都乐岩 4A scenic area · on the map
A karst landscape park about 12 km south of central Liuzhou made up of twelve limestone peaks, a clear stream and two man-made lakes. - Fenghuang River Eco-Tourism Resort 凤凰河生态旅游度假区 4A scenic area · on the map
A hot-spring resort on the upper Liu River at Luoman, west of Liuzhou, developed as part of the Liu River tourism belt and rated 4A in 2015. - Guangxi Ecological Science Garden 广西生态科普苑 4A scenic area · on the map
A science-education scenic area on the campus of the Guangxi Eco-Engineering Vocational and Technical College in Shatang, north of Liuzhou, rated 4A in 2023. - Gulinglong Infused-Liquor Factory Park 古岭龙 4A scenic area · on the map
An industrial-tourism site at the Guangxi Gulinglong group's garden-style factory in Chuanshan town, which makes infused liquors, spirits steeped with herbs and, in some cases, snakes and other animals. - Keliwan Happy World 克里湾欢乐世界 4A scenic area · on the map
An amusement park in the Liudong New Area, opened in 2017 as Kale Planet and rated 4A in 2018, now operating under the Keliwan Happy World name beside the Liuzhou Garden Expo Park. - Keliwan Water Park 克里湾水乐园 4A scenic area · on the map
An outdoor water park in the Liudong New Area with water rides and pools, mainly a summer outing for families and young people. - Laojun Cave 老君洞 4A scenic area · on the map
A karst cave on the south-western edge of Rongshui town, also called Zhenxian Cave, through which the Lingshou stream flows for about 300 m past stalactites and cliff inscriptions. - Liu River Scenic Area (Baili Liujiang) 百里柳江 4A scenic area · on the map
The scenic stretch of the Liu River as it loops through central Liuzhou, lined with landscaped promenades on both banks. - LiuGong Industrial Tourism Site 柳工 4A scenic area · on the map
The main works of LiuGong, the construction-machinery maker founded in Liuzhou in 1958 that built mainland China's first wheel loader in 1966, rated a 4A industrial-tourism site in 2018. - Liuhou Park and Liu Zongyuan Shrine 柳侯公园 4A scenic area · National heritage site
A city-centre park laid out from 1906 around the shrine to Liu Zongyuan, the Tang poet and essayist who governed Liuzhou and died here in 819. - Liuzhou Confucian Temple 柳州文庙 4A scenic area · on the map
A modern reconstruction of Liuzhou's Confucian temple, first founded in the early Tang dynasty, standing on the east bank of the Liu River below Dengtai Hill. - Liuzhou Garden Expo Park 柳州园博园 4A scenic area · on the map
A large landscaped park in the Liudong New Area, built for the first Guangxi Garden and Horticulture Expo and opened in October 2011. - Liuzhou Industrial Museum 柳州工业博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
A city industrial museum opened in 2012 in the sawtooth-roofed workshops of the former No. 3 Cotton Mill, on a site of about 11 hectares. - Liuzhou Museum 柳州博物馆 4A scenic area · on the map
The city's main museum, founded in the late 1950s and housed since 2003 in a granite building in the style of a city gate on the east side of People's Square. - Liuzhou Urban Planning Exhibition Hall 柳州城市规划展览馆 4A scenic area · on the map
A two-floor exhibition on the east bank of the Liu River about the city's history and planning. - Liuzhou Zoo 柳州市动物园 4A scenic area · on the map
The city zoo on the southern edge of Liuzhou, which moved here from Liuhou Park in 2005 and keeps more than a hundred species. - Longnü Gully 龙女沟 4A scenic area · on the map
A valley in Sirong township on the south-western slopes of Yuanbao Mountain, with clear pools, waterfalls and forest beside Miao and Dong villages of wooden houses and drum towers. - Longtan Park 龙潭公园 4A scenic area · National heritage site · on the map
A large karst park in southern Liuzhou, with 24 limestone peaks around two spring-fed pools, Longtan and Leitan, that steam on winter mornings, and a lake crossed by a covered bridge. - Luosifen Town 螺蛳粉小镇 4A scenic area · on the map
A themed town at Taiyangcun, west of Liuzhou, developed since 2018 around luosifen, the city's river-snail rice-noodle soup, and recognised as a national modern agricultural industrial park. - Luowei Luosifen Industrial Park 洛维螺蛳粉产业园 4A scenic area · on the map
An industrial park in the Luowei area of southern Liuzhou where packaged luosifen, the city's river-snail rice-noodle soup, is made, rated a 4A industrial-tourism site in 2018. - Malu Hill Stone Park and Liuzhou Stone Museum 马鹿山奇石博览园 4A scenic area · on the map
A hillside park in eastern Liuzhou built around ornamental stones, a long-standing local passion. - Mengwu Miao Village Folk Culture Park 梦呜苗寨 4A scenic area · on the map
A Miao culture park inside the Shuanglong Gully resort, set up around 2018 by dismantling stilt houses in remote mountain villages and rebuilding them here, with some of their Miao owners resettled to work in the park. - Oriental Dream Works – Liukong Creative Park 东方梦工场·柳空文创园 4A scenic area · on the map
A creative park in the former Liuzhou Air Compressor Works, a state factory founded in 1958 and listed as national industrial heritage in 2021. - Que'er Hill Park 雀儿山公园 4A scenic area · on the map
A park on a peninsula-shaped hill in Liubei District, surrounded by lakes on three sides, whose summit, about 180 m above sea level, looks out over the northern industrial district. - SAIC-GM-Wuling Baojun Base 上汽通用五菱宝骏基地 4A scenic area · on the map
The Baojun car plant of SAIC-GM-Wuling in the Liudong New Area, rated 4A in 2018 and opened for industrial tours in June 2019. - Sanjiang Great Dong Village (County Town) 三江大侗寨 4A scenic area · on the map
The scenic area covering the modern Dong-style landmarks of Guyi, Sanjiang's county town, rated 4A in 2012. - Sanjiangkou Eco-Tourism Area 三江口生态旅游区 4A scenic area · on the map
A riverside area at Laobao, where the Duliu (Rongjiang) and Xun rivers meet and become the Rong River, rated a 4A scenic area in 2023. - Shimen Fairy Lake 石门仙湖 4A scenic area · on the map
A karst scenic area of about 470 hectares around the Shimen reservoir in Daliang town, named after a huge natural stone gateway near its entrance. - Shuanglong Gully Forest Resort 双龙沟 4A scenic area · on the map
A forested valley north-west of Rongshui town with about 420 hectares of old-growth public-welfare forest, two streams, waterfalls and a small reservoir. - Xiancaotang Reishi Mushroom Factory 仙草堂生态灵芝透明工厂 4A scenic area · on the map
A see-through factory of the Guangxi Xiancaotang pharmaceutical company in Rong'an's county town, where visitors follow the growing and processing of lingzhi (reishi) mushrooms. - Xianghe Xiangyun Lotus Fields 祥荷乡韵 4A scenic area · on the map
A farming and leisure area around Shixiang hamlet near Zhongdu, centred on about 67 hectares of lotus ponds among karst peaks, rated 4A in 2018. - Xiangqiao Karst National Geopark 香桥岩 4A scenic area · on the map
A national geopark of karst scenery in Zhongdu town, with caves, underground rivers, a natural stone bridge and sinkholes among wooded limestone hills. - Yueye Dong Village 月也侗寨 4A scenic area · on the map
A purpose-built Dong-style leisure quarter of about 4.8 hectares in the centre of Sanjiang's county town, built and run by the state-owned Guangxi Tourism Development Group and rated 4A in 2020. - Yufeng Hill (Liyufeng Scenic Area) 立鱼峰 4A scenic area · on the map
Two limestone hills rising from the city on the south bank of the Liu River: Yufeng Hill, about 156 m above sea level, and the taller Ma'an Hill. - Zhiqing Town (Educated Youth Town) 知青城 4A scenic area · on the map
A theme village at Luoya on the Rong River, where more than 400 urban 'educated youth' were sent to live and farm during the Down to the Countryside Movement. - Zhongdu Old Town 中渡古镇 4A scenic area · on the map
A market town in north-western Luzhai county with nearly 2,000 years of history, listed as a national historic and cultural town.
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