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Guiyang, capital of southwest China's Guizhou Province has been gradually thrust into tourist limelight as the best city in China to escape summer heat. In 2006 Guiyang had the distinction of being chosen as the best summer destination in China. But the result does little justice to the city's pleasant summer weather condition and unique charm. 

While the vast majority of China has very hot summers, Guiyang is an enclave of coolness where a thin quilt is even needed during the night time. The city is situated on the Yunnan-Guizhou highland with low latitude and the average temperature from June to August is approximately 23 centigrade degree.

Economical development and urbanization in some cities in China have been widely criticized for being at the cost of environment. In the large industrial cities of the north, pollution can be quite bad. Fortunately Guiyang has retained an environmentally-friendly atmosphere thanks to attitude and effort of the local government.

Aside from its comfortable weather conditions, Guiyang lays claims to its unique karst landscape and colorful ethnic cultures in the region.

Unlike its neighboring region Guangxi, whose karst terrain is still under development, Guizhou's topography features a myriad of developed karst landscapes, epitomized by the numerous waterfalls, stone forests, caves, ravines, pinnacles, subterranean lakes and hot springs. The magnificent and thundering Huangguoshu Waterfall, the glittering Hongfeng Lake, outcroppings of the Fanjingshan Mountain are the highlights of the natural scenery.

Guizhou's natural scenery is very impressive but the patent ethnic savor steals the shows. China's west frontiers are nicknamed as the corridors of the nation's minority peoples as these regions are inhabited by China's largest ethnic population. Compared with other provinces in Southwest China, ethnic groups in Guizhou are more pristine, simple and mysterious. The strong exotic flavor is the nub of Guizhou's tourism resources and it’s the various ethnic communities scattered throughout the region embellish the physical space and add more dynamics and vitality to nature.

Guizhou is home to more than 10 ethnic groups, most of who live in the southeast realm bordering Guangxi and Hunan. Their pristine culture, tradition and lifestyle are well preserved and displayed. Those ethnic people still live in their aged houses, practice their centuries-old customs and adhere to their simple life.

A trip to Guizhou is inevitably a tour of spiritual neutralization for urban people, a trip to return to nature and a tour to experience the destinies of the region's ethnic people.  

Guiyang Attractions

Huangguoshu Waterfalls

Huangguoshu Waterfall is an ensemble of 18 waterfalls above the ground and 4 underground waterfalls Among them the Huangguoshu Waterfall, which is the largest in Asia, is 68 meters high and 8l meters wide with a flow of more than 700 cubic meters of water per second. Huge amounts of water seem to pour from the sky. Turbulent waters throw into a pool at the bottom of a valley, sending foam up by 100 meters and its roar can be heard kilometers away. When the sun rises rainbows appear adding a touch of beauty to the majesty.

Ethnic cultures:

Along the Guangxi-Hunan-Guizhou borders in the wild tree-clad mountains nestle many tiny villages where the ethnic peoples dwell. Southwest Guizhou is the last haven for China's ethnic culture. The region in the southeast is home to more than 38 minority people including the Miao, Yao and Dong who have lived in this land for thousands of years. This ideologically isolated realm is not touched by the violence of modernization and remains as an enclave of simplicity and primitiveness in the concrete jungle we live in. The art of local architecture culminated in the drum towers and wind-and-rain bridges and local fashion consists of exotic costumes and lifestyles.

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