Dramatic karst landscapes rising above the Li River are silhouetted against the dawn light. The Li River landscapes are located in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The most impressive part of the Li River is from Guilin to Yangshuo.

Li River Dawn
The most impressive part of the Li River is from Guilin to Yangshuo. Karst Topography is a landscape shaped by the dissolution of a layer or layers of soluble bedrock, usually carbonate rock such as limestone or dolomite.
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The Li River landscapes are located in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The most impressive part of the Li River is from Guilin to Yangshuo. Photo taken at dawn from a morning hike.

The Li River landscapes are located in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Karst Topography is a landscape shaped by the dissolution of a layer or layers of soluble bedrock, usually carbonate rock such as limestone or dolomite.
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The 600-year-old Yulong Bridge stands amid hundreds of tall karst peaks, rural mudbrick villages, rice paddies, and grazing water buffalo. The 197-foot-long (60-meter-long) single-arched bridge—the largest of its kind in Guangxi Province.

Dragon Bridge
Also known as the Yulong Bridge. Yulong Bridge was built in the Yongle Period Ming Dynasty from 1402 to 1424. Yulong River is the longest branch of Li River in Yangshuo, Guangxi China.
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A view of the karst peaks through a hole in one of the peaks called Moon Hill. The area is bathed in the warm glow of the early dawn light.

Moon Hill
The fantastic views from the top have made this hill one of Yangshuo's best attractions! Moon Hill has a natural round cave at the peak and from a distance, the cave (a hole in the peak) resembles the moon, hence the name.
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A stone arched bridge from the Ming Dynasty is reflected in the water.

Fuli Bridge
This is the largest stone arch bridge in Yangshuo County. It is 60 meters long, 9 meters high, 5 meters wide, and has an 18-meter span. It was built in the Ming Dynasty in 1412.
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