Pictures from our trip to Yushilin, or Jade Rock Forest near Hezhou

Hezhou Guposhan National Park

A tour you can take from Guilin

Guposhan National Forest Park is located in the northeast of Guangxi, Hunan, Guangxi and Guangdong Provinces at the junction of Meng Zhu Guangxi Hezhou side in Lingnan , is only 21 kilometers away from the Hezhou town.

Many movies from Hongkong shot in this scenic spot. You will find the beautiful mountains, waterfalls, green land, green trees etc.
Hezhou Stone Forest, situated in Huangtian Town, Babu district,18 kilometers away from the city of Hezhou, occupies an area of 25 hectares with then 100 attractions covering 13 kilometres.

The Shibahshui 十八水 Scenic Area alone has 18 waterfalls (hence the name 18 Waters)

玉石林 - Yushilin -Jade Rock Forest

A very 'chinglish' description
http://wyds.hzu.gx.cn/bishui/english/yushilin.html

jade stone forest is a very rare made of white marble columns, stalagmites "jade stone forest", it formed in the Jurassic period, more than one hundred million years ago as a result of the yanshan epoch geological fault uplift and long-term karst seepage erosion and local high temperature influence, plus more than 1000 years since song dynasty tin ore mining, layer peak area of the mainland from Clint bare, qifeng, stalagmite pillars, geosyncline funnel, slit, accomplished "camel" in one thousand, "air corridor", "sight" and so many amazing natural landscape. Congratulation state jade stone forest just development call kynge shilin, China geological conference held in congratulation state in June 2003, after the geological experts pay visit to the stone forest, the experts were surprised to find that the whole mountain stone is white, is belongs to the one of the stones of kashgar special landform, called white marble granite. Arises at the historic moment under the name of the jade stone forest.

These are at the Yushilin, or Jade Rock Forest near Hezhou

The only other people we saw at the rock forest were with this tour group - they had 2 or 3 other places to get to that day so they just zipped right by us

A map of our trip - we also went to Yangshuo and Huangyao

These are from an earlier trip with more people from the University.