Longsheng Travel Guide
Longsheng County boasts fantastic natural scenery with spiraling rice terraced fields that were built about 700 years ago, and ethnic villages with unique buildings, costumes and customs. It is famous for its beautiful rice terraced fields and ethnic villages in mountainous areas. The well-known Longji (literally meaning "Dragon's Backbone") rice terraced fields were built through many generations’ hard work ever since the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368). The fields built along the mountains slopes wind from the riverside up to the mountain top, with the highest place of an elevation of 885 meters (968 yards) and the lowest 380 meters (416 yards).
Besides the wondrous natural scenery, Longsheng County is also famous for its splendid ethnic customs and cultures. There are 10 ethnic groups in Longsheng, including Han, Zhuang, Yao, Miao, Dong and some others, all of whom are adept in folk singing and dancing. Each group possesses its own charm and differs from the others in architecture, clothing styles, food habits, festivals and customs. more about Longsheng »
- Chinese Name: 龙胜
- Chinese Pinyin: lóng shèng
- Location: Northeast of Guilin
- Latitude: 25°78' N
- Longitude:110° 02' E
- Elevation: 700 M (2297 FT)
- Time Zone: (UTC+8)
- Area Code: 0773
- Population: 170,000
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Longji Terraced Field
The Longji Terraces are located in the southeast of Longsheng County. The Terraces were first built in the Yuan Dynasty about 700 years ago by the Zhuang people. There are numerous terraced fields, of which the terraced Fields in Longji are the best and most spectacular. It is 22.5 km from Longsheng County an... more about Longji Terraced Field
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It is too hectic to visit both ping an rice terraced fields and the Hot spring national park. I suggest that you can visit the ping an rice terraced field but stay in a hotel at Hot spring national park and spend next day at the park.
Dear Mr. Terry,
Thank you for visiting our web site and your interest in our services. My name is Nora Ou. I am a travel advisor at China Highlights. It is my pleasure to assist you.
The address of Guilin Longsheng Hot Spring Tourism Resort is China Guangxi Guilin Longsheng Gezu 144 County Road. The contact number is +86 773 748 2888.
The cost for the Hot Spring varies dramatically in different seasons. Please inform when you plan to come so that we could offer you more information. We could customize a Longsheng Hot Spring tour for you.
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Hi Edie,
The average temperature of Guilin in mid December is around 10℃-15℃, so warm coat and sweater should be bring with you in that time. If you need any tour in Guilin or other city tours of China, please feel free contact me at nancy@chinahighlgihts.com.
Nancy
Hi Zoobat,
Longsheng is a county which is about 2.5 hours away from Guilin, it doesn't have an airport. The quickiest way to go from Longsheng to Guangzhou is to take a direct flight from Guilin. It is a 1-hour flight about CNY750 per ticket including tax and surcharge.
Overnight trains are available at a cost of CNY326 and it is a 11-hour train, overnight buses are also available at a similar cost.
Hello Sisi,
Guilin locates in the Southwest of China, it is a famous tourism city well known by it natural beauty. The best time to visit Guilin is between June to October.
Hi Shirley,
If you go from Yangshuo, it takes around 4-4.5 hours (210 KM) driving to Longsheng Hot Spring Hotel. You can reach the hotel by car.
The standard room of Hot Spring center Hotel Long Sheng is US$84 including 2 Chinese breakfasts according to your schedule.
If you wish China Highlights to arrange hotels or tours in Guilin including Yangshuo and Longshen for you, you could submit an order form online or send your enquiry to cotact@chinahighlights.com, you could get a reply in 1 working day.
Nancy
Hello Ana,
Longsheng and Sanjiang are a bit far from Guilin, Guilin-Longsheng takes about 3 hours, Longsheng-Sanjiang takes about 2 hours, then it takes about 4 hours to go from Sanjiang back to Guilin. It is impossible to visit them all within 1 day. Therefore, it is suggested that you stay one night in Longsheng, and continue the trip the next day.
If you need any tour services in these places or any other parts of China, please feel free to send us an email to service@chinahighlights.com with your tour inquiries, our professional travel advisors will reply to you within 1 working day.
Autumn,
Longsheng is about 90 kilometers far from Guilin, and taxi drivers probably are reluctant to take you there regarding the long distance and road condition. It is not that the road is bad but that it happens that the road would be closed in rainy days for safety concerns. I advisor you take a tour,which will save you lots of hassle.
Of course you can, from Longsheng to Guilin is just 2.5 hours bus, and you can stay there for 5 hours even more. I went there last autumn, the harvest time is the best time to visit, all yellow in your eys!
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- Longsheng-Sanjiang Highway is Undergoing Renovations Aug. 8, 2006
- Longsheng Terraced Fields Culture Festival Sep. 28, 2006
