Walking and biking on the paths

You can rent a mountain-bike directly at the hotel and start a ride from here. Some places in the village start renting double or electric bike. There are many paths made by farmers that can bring you everywhere and where you won't see any cars. If you like adventure ask a map at the loby, and if you want to know more ask for a guide.

Boat Trips

The easiest way to enjoy the view along the YuLong river is to take a bamboo raft, also called Dragon Boat from the name of the river. A typical trip start from the Dragon Bridge at Baisha and last a few hours. You can also make a pause in a nice spot and dive into the clear river.
Most people come from Guilin to Yangshuo by boat on the Li river. This scenery is famous around the world. It's also possible too make a smaller trip from XingPing to Yangshuo on a fisherman boat.

Rock climbing

With more than 2000 limestone karsts around MoonHill this place is the Shangri-la of rock climbers. There are a few rock climbing school here, they have everything you need to practice, from initiation to freestyle. Luckily, most of the spots are located in a small area near MoonHill, on both sides of the road to Yangshuo.

• MoonHill itself has 14 identifiable bolted routes (5.12).
• A bit further, in the Big Banyan park you can climb a small rock and 300m on the left is the Tongmen Hill (aka Copper/Tunnel/X-Crag) where there are bolted lines (5.10).
• The Butterfly Cave can also be climbed and just before it, on the same side of the road, the Panda's Thumb where the view on the rice paddies, villages, and several interesting rock towers is worth climbing (5.10). On the opposite side of the road, the Middle Finger is also an eye-catcher for climbers.
• Continuing the road toward Yangshuo, you'll see a 80m tall clean rock on the right side of the road, called JinMao Dong (aka Golden Cat Cave). There are three bolted lines there, the third one starts from a impressive big roof (5.08).

Have a bath

Playing in the river is very relaxing after a long hicking or biking under the hot sun of summer. There are some very good swimming spots on YuLong river some next to restaurants where you can leave your clothes and bike. It's also possible to swim in Li river but the stream can be fast in some places so it's better to ask local people before jumping.

Sight seeing from a hot air baloon

This new activity is a must to discover the whole scenery around MoonHill. Higher than any mountain you'll see the impressive forest of karst peaks and the rivers passing through the rice fields. You'll never forget such a panorama. There are two kind of flights : Tethered or free. The first one just climb up, let you take pictures and go down, it's the safest and cheapest solution but also the shortest (10min). The second kind let you fly with the wind around the hills, thanks to the pilot skills. This option is more interesting as you can even ask the pilot to land somewhere but is depending on the weather conditions. You can fly between 30min to a few hours, depending how much you want to pay :).

Taking pictures

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Find original stuff

Don't come to MoonHill if you want to buy a stylish Louis Vuiton bag! But if you are looking for real local hand-made goods, wine or food, Gaotian nearby chinese market and Fuli old village are the right places to go.

Taste our local fruits and famous dishes

Guangxi is well known as China's attic. Not only for its rice fields but also for the many different kind of delicious fruit that grow in MoonHill area.

• Pomelo is sweeter but drier than an orange. This large fruit has a strange pear shape outside but when you peel it, inside is a grapefruit! Its thick skin protect it very well so you can keep it one year before eating!
• Orange and green mandarins are very tasty and despite the color are very sweet and juicy. The best season to eat them is autumn, all the trees around MoonHill are full of those delicious orange fruits.
• Persimmon is a fruit that looks like a kaki or a brown tomato when ripe. Local people dry them so you can eat them all the year long, they're very sweet.
• Water Chestnuts looks like normal chestnuts but grows...in water! Once peeled no need to cook them, just eat the white flesh. Strangly, the taste is like a very fresh sugar cane.
• Sugar cane is another famous plant here. It grows a bit further but is sold everywhere around MoonHill.
• Li River Fish with Beer is a fresh Li River fish, colorfull and tasty. It was awarded the creative golden medal in the national Fantastic Hill Cup dish competition.

Learn how to cook chinese food

Our chief is an expert in cooking local dishes. He can also teach you.

Discover chinese animals

Discover or rediscover animals from the farm. As if time has stoped, farmer still use animals like water-buffalos to help them carrying heavy load or plow fields. Smaller and more colorfull, local insects have also strange shapes, perfect subjects for macro-photography.

Other famous activities in Yangshuo

Watch the Liu SanJie Impression - Night Show

This is a major production with a cast of 500 singers, dancers, bamboo boats and cormorants birds. However, the stand out performer is definitely the background scenery. The lighting of the karst peaks is truly amazing and was our highlight.
The performance is based on a Chinese musical movie made in 1961. The story is about a lady called Liu SanJie who lived in the near city of Liuzhou where she worked in the fields. Liu Sanjie was well known in Liuzhou for her great singing voice. She would always sing while she worked in the fields. Most of her songs were about the repression felt by her and the farmers from the local landlords who over taxed them. She had to leave Liuzhou for her own safety and came to Yangshuo on a bamboo raft and settled here.
Yangshuo's farmers also had problems with their landlord and Liu Sanjie took up singing against them. The local landlord had her kidnapped, but she escaped after the local farmers staged an uprising against the landlord. The locals agreed with the landlord that they did not have to pay taxes if they could sing better than the landlord, something which they always did.Then under the Big Banyan tree, Liu Sanjie tossed her love ball to her loved one, which he accepted and they lived happily ever after.

Attending one of the Chinese Festivals

• Chinese New Year (XinNian). Dragon dance and fireworks. You should exchange Hong Bao.
• Dragon Boat Festival. Fishermen fights with their bamboo raft.
• Mid-Autumn Festival. Local people carry their orange lantern to the top of MoonHill. You can try eating moon-cakes.