Huixian Wetland Travel Guide

Guilin Huixian Wetland is situated at three towns of Lingui County in Guilin, including Huixian Town, Sitang Town and Yanshan Town. It is called the kidney of Guilin. According to historical materials, the wetland area was 65 square km before 10th century. It reduced to 25 square km in 1950s. There were only 20 lakes and ponds remained in the wetland. At present, the area is only 6 square km. The local government is suspending the plan of converting cultivated land to wetland.
As the most typical heartland of tropical needle karst in globe, Huixian Wetland is very rare karst wetland around by small hills. This wetland combining narrow valleys of peak clusters along Li River and broad valleys of Dragon River comprise Guilin natural landscape.