Guizhou (贵州省) · 10 places · 9 cities
10 places in Guizhou, grouped by city. The last column is the gate: 2 of them are open at all hours, and the others close, often earlier than the light does.
Most common here: Geopark (5), Historic garden or scenic site (2), Wetland and lake (1). See all provinces, or the background on parks.
2 places
Qiandongnan Miao and Dong Autonomous Prefecture (黔东南苗族侗族自治州)
| Place | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Xijiang Thousand-Household Miao Village (西江千户苗寨)Described as the largest Miao settlement in China: more than 1,200 households across a dozen hillside villages that have grown together. Stilt houses stack up both slopes, and the view across at night is what people come for. | Historic garden or scenic site | Open at all hours |
| Zhenyuan Ancient Town (镇远古镇)A county seat since 277 BC. The Wuyang river makes an S through town, leaving the old prefecture on one bank and the old garrison on the other. The Qinglong Cave halls are built flat against a cliff. | Historic garden or scenic site | Open at all hours |
1 place
Anshun (安顺)
| Place | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Huangguoshu Waterfall (黄果树瀑布)The main fall is 77.8 m high and 101 m wide, one of eighteen in a karst cluster along the same river. A passage runs behind the curtain, so the sheet of water can be seen from inside, which is the part people remember. | Geopark | 7:00 to 18:30 |
1 place
Anshun (安顺市)
| Place | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Longgong (龙宫)Eighty-four caves, wet and dry, in one karst system. The first chamber runs 840 m and is seen by boat. A field above is planted so that the crop spells a single character across 120 mu. | Geopark | 8:00 to 17:30 |
1 place
Bijie (毕节)
| Place | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Zhijin Cave (织金洞)A limestone cave 12.1 km long and over 700,000 square metres in area, holding more than forty kinds of formation, close to the full range found in caves anywhere. | Geopark | 8:30 to 17:00 |
1 place
Guiyang (贵阳市)
| Place | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Qianlingshan Park (贵阳黔灵山公园)Recorded as the largest natural hill park inside a Chinese city, opened in 1957, with a resident troop of macaques that has learned to take food from visitors’ hands. | City park | 6:30 to 22:00 |
1 place
Qiannan (黔南)
| Place | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Libo Zhangjiang (荔波樟江（小七孔）)UNESCO NATURALWorld Heritage karst with forest, gorges, underground rivers and lakes. A seven-arch bridge of 1835, a cascade of 68 steps, and a stretch of trees growing directly out of running water. | Wetland and lake | 7:30 to 17:00 |
1 place
Qianxinan Bouyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture (西南布依族苗族自治州)
| Place | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Wanfenglin (万峰林)UNESCO GEOPARKTwenty thousand cone-shaped karst hills standing over farmland and Bouyei villages, with fields laid out between them. Xu Xiake wrote that he had seen peaks elsewhere but forests of them only here. | Geopark | 8:00 to 18:00 |
1 place
Tongren (铜仁)
| Place | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Fanjingshan (梵净山)UNESCO NATURALWorld Heritage for nature, and given to Maitreya in Buddhist terms. A mushroom-shaped rock stands on the ridge, and the Red Cloud Golden Summit splits in two with a bridge between two small temples. Cloud on about 180 days a year. | Mountain and forest | 8:00 to 15:00 |
1 place
Zunyi (遵义)
| Place | Kind | Opens |
|---|---|---|
| Chishui Danxia (赤水丹霞)UNESCO NATURALRecorded as one of the largest danxia areas in China, and the one where red cliffs sit against bamboo forest and waterfalls at this scale. Chishui Great Falls measure 76 m by 80 m. | Geopark | Has opening hours, not recorded |
Which Ones Need a Whole Day
A city park is an hour before dinner. A geopark can be a full day with a shuttle and a cable car, and the gate closes earlier than the park does. Tell our local team where you will be and they will say which of these fit the day you have.