Nanning - Tourism

Tourism

Nanning is close to scenic Guilin, with its world famous hillscape, northern and western Guangxi and its minority villages, and the border with Vietnam in the south.

In 1998 alone, the city received 26,260 overseas tourists, earning foreign exchange totaling US$7.0663 million, some 5.01 percent of the city's total income. An addition of 6.89 million domestic visitors brought RMB 3.23 billion yuan into the city, some 19.95 percent of the total.

The major tourist attractions in Nanning are as following:

• Qingxiu Mountains Landscape (a park at provincial level)
• Guangxi Museum
• Guangxi Medicinal Botanical Garden
• Liangfengjiang River Scenic Spot (a state forest reserve)
• Phoenix Lake Holiday Site
• Minorities Cultural Relics Center
• Western Suburbs Zoo (including the country's largest Crocodile, Elephant,and Hippopotamus Enclosure)
• Golden Scented-Tea Park (the country's largest base for golden scented tea seeds)
• The Ruins of the Battlefield of Kunlunguan
• Yangmei Ancient Town
• Lingshui Hot Spring (a large constant hot spring)
• Mingxiu Park
• Daming Muntain
• The Beiqiu ruins of Dingshishan Mountain (one of 1997's 10 Greatest Archaeological Discoveries in China.)