Trekking the river valley near Lingtian

We walked all the time in the green valley, ended our trip in a farm house for lunch break. 1 more hour trekking in the forest till we arrived at Fulu Bay (LongKouCunWei). No bus service or taxi available here, we telephoned our driver who dropped us in the morning. He showed up in our warmly welome of “oh, Yeh” in 30 minutes, took us to Lintian. Kindly remind you the last bus from Lintian to Guilin is 17h30.

Water splashing ceremony after the trekking

8 persons signed up for this trip. The cost for a van from Lintian to MoJia Village is 15RMB, and LongKouCunWei to Lintian is RMB20. The driver who helped us is Mr. Chen, mobile phone 13877311659, a very good driver.

We hiked most of our way up, which consumed a lot of energy of us. But when we looked down to enjoy the splendid scenery of the terraced rice fields from time to time, all the weariness seemed to have gone. When we got to the top of Dahu mountain, the second highest mountain in Guangxi Province, the feeling is really overwhelming. It’s cool and a little dark over there since it was going to rain. We are suddenly among the mist and the mist rushed away quickly because of the strong wind. And then we surprisingly found two graves there. All these reminded me the atmosphere described in the ghost stories.

After around 4 hours’ hiking, at around 3 o’clock in the afternoon, we arrived a village called Jiuwu. According to our plan, we would spend one night there and then continue to hike another 4 hours to Dazhai in Jinkeng area. Stewart was very happy with this result and said he didn’t expect that we could finish the first half in such a short time. He turned to me with a smile, “are you ok? shall we continue our hiking since we still have a lot of time today?” I said “ok” hardly before I gave time to think about it. Then we continued.. Partly because we were a little tired after 4 hours’ trekking and partly because of the rain started shortly after that, I felt that the second half was much more difficult. Stewart fell for twice and I’m not better than him, I fell for 3 times because of the wet slippery path. For the last half hour we were walking in the totally darkness and I felt almost worn out when we finally arrived our destination—Dazhai village.

I put down my backpack in the room of Jinkeng Guesthouse and rushed into the bath room. The hot show seemed to be the most comfortable and refreshing one I had ever had. It was the same with the dinner that night, never been better than that since you are so tired and hungry.

I have read many articles recommended the Taiping cable car instead of either of the other two, as it has better views.

Taiping Cable car（from Pine Valley Nunnery to Pine Forest Peak), also called Cableway 2. It is 3,561.9 meters long and its height difference is 1,004 meters. It is of four-line reciprocating type, with one pair of cable cars, carrying capacity of 100 + 1 persons for each car ( one way trip lasts 11.6 minutes ).

Ticet Price: Up Y65 for adult, Y35 for child, down Y55 for adult, Y30 for child
Business Hours: 6.30am-4.00pm

Kindly remind you the cable car stops after 4 pm. For those who arrive in the local airport in later afternoon, it would be impossible to go up mountain by cable car the same day.

On the summit, trails lead south and east into the mountains.  Our trek started from here, from Paiyunting towards Baiyun Hotel.

Read more of our stories of trekking through the West Sea Canyan…