Yangshuo is approximately 60 kilometers from Guilin , China and has become a popular tourism destination, particularly for the Li River cruise, which takes passengers past some of the most spectacular karst peaks. These towers were formed by the gradual retreat of ancient inland seas, leaving many exotic caves and bizarre limestone formations, similar to those found in Krabi, Thailand and Halong Bay, Vietnam.The Yulong River Valley where the Yangshuo Mountain Retreat is located.The Mountain Retreat is situated on the Yulong River, a tributary of the Li River one of the Yangtze River’s ’s four largest tributaries in the province of Guangxi, which is also an Autonomous Region of the Chinese Zhuang Tribe, with cultural traditions distinct from the majority Han Chinese.
