Guangxi Zhuang

Li River

Zuo River

Yao People

Zhuang People

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China’s Guangxi Zhuang
Autonomous Region

Guangxi, in China´s deep south, lies between
Guandong Province and Vietnam.

Steep karst mounds rise from the valley floor. Among them wends the Li River, whose headwaters are near Guilin. The Lijiang is immediately recognizable as the subject of many Chinese paintings. Guangxi Zhuang is home to the Yao and Zhuang minority nationalities (or “hill tribes” as they would be called in Thailand).

We visit them for a meal including delicious fried grasshoppers, a sip or three of their local beverage, and lion dances on the terrace of a hillside home. We also travel on the Zuo River to Mount Huashan, near the border with Vietnam, where Zhuang rock paintings are found.