Liping Travel Guide

Enjoying four tops of the world, Liping has became a fascinating place where locates the largest natural stone bridge—the Natural Bridge; the earliest prototype of the Dong drum tower group— Drum-tower of hole column; the largest dark wood in earth—The buried wood of Cunninghamia unicanaliculata; the biggest Dong drum tower group—Zhaoxing Drum-tower Group.

Transportation

How to arrive at Liping:  the Liping Airport is 20km away from Liping County, you need transfer the flight from Guangzhou or Guiyang to come here.

By bus: bus in county is 0.6Yuan per person, middle bus is 0.8 Yuan per person.

By taxi: the flag-fall rate is 5 Yuan.

Tips: be careful when you prefer to take the motorbikes here.
 

Weather

The annual average temperature here is 57.2F-65.3F. In July the average temperature is 77F, in January the average temperature is 41F. So, spring, summer and autumn are all good for your traveling. Besides, please take raincoat or umbrella, sunbonnet, sunglass, and suntan oil in summer. The best time to come here is in the season of alternating period between The spring and summer. And, there are several places near Zhaoxing worth visiting - Kaili, Liping, Zhenyuan and Huangping. Local buses are available to travel from place to place.
 

Food and Restaurants

Here, you have chance to enjoy local snacks and specialties, for example, Bamboo-root, Rongjiang Melon, Rongjiang Mutton, Rongjiang Bintang Orange, Batik, Embroidery, Liping Luohua Chopsticks, Leishan Yingqiu Tea, etc. When the dawn comes, strolling at the snack chain store is a great fun.

Impression Café: offers milk tea, coffee and some other drinks; you can spend several hours sipping on a cup of coffee with friends here after the trek. WIFI is available here.
Address: Pingjie
Price: ¥15/person

MingYaXiangDi: offers the local dishes of Guizhou.
Address: 304XinTian Road
Price: ¥25/person

Cao’s Mutton Restaurant: mainly offers spicy lamb which is the representative of the Dong food. Many foreigners come for its fame.
Address: Qiaojie
Price: ¥30/person

Laokaili Suantangyu: offers sour broth fish which is their house specialty.
Address: 55 Shengfu Lu
Tel: 5843665
 

Q&A

1. Where can I find a home stay in Liping?
Some inns are as same as the home stay, here recommend one---Xiangfengge Inn (Address: Drum-tower, Xiangrentuan Zhaoxing Tel: 0855---6130291).

2. Can I join them when there is a festival activity?
Of course, but firstly you need have a guide who can speak the dialect.

3. Is there a bank in Liping?
There is a Bink of China at the first floor of Gongdianju Building,Liping.

4. I am a muslin, so where to have meals in Liping?
There are a lot Muslin restaurants here. One is for your reference: Muslin’s Tangula Yak Beef Restaurant in 153��Dehui Road.