Yangshuo West Street

Chinese name: 阳朔西街（Yang Shuo Xi Jie）
Location: Yangshuo County, Guilin, Guangxi.( about 65km from Guilin)
Ticket: Free
Estimated tour time: Half day
Recommended time to visit: May-Oct
Nearby attractions: Li River, Yulong River, Longji Terrace, Impression Sanjie Liu, etc.

Yangshuo is a county of Guilin, about 65 km from Guilin. It is very famous for the West Street in the town.

The history of West Street in Yangshuo can be traced back to 590 AD (Sui Dynasty in China) and it is more than 1400 years old to this day. The street was 200 meters in length and less than 4 metes in width when the county was founded, and got its name because of its location at the west of the county seat.

It is the oldest street of Yangshuo when Yangshuo was just opened to the world and discovered by western travellers at the beginning of 1970s. Charmed by its picturesque landscapes and simple and unsophisticated folk custom, they could not help writing their experiences and feelings in Yangshuo especially the West Street into guidebooks, which made it more mysterious and attractive for the western world.

Stretching for less than 1 km now and paved with flagstones, West Street is an amazing global pedestrian street with old traditional Chinese dwellings on both sides of it. It is in such a small street that all kinds of shops, restaurants and bars with English signs assemble. Every year hundreds of thousands of people from all over pay a visit to it,hundreds of shops with many amazing variety of local crafts, antiques and souvenirs make this a shoppers’ paradise. or you can just wander through the many alleyways or along the river, people-watching. Many visitors prefer to stay the night in Yangshuo to enjoy it in a more leisurely way or take in some of the active nightlife.