Jiangzhou District and Ningming and Longzhou County rock art

Waypoint introductions and full write-ups

1. 1. Jiangzhou District

   Jiangzhou is the district that holds the city of Chongzuo, in the far southwest of Guangxi, close to the Vietnamese border. The landscape is classic Guangxi karst, with steep, isolated limestone hills that jut from flat green plains like the backs of sleeping animals. Between them the Zuo River winds slowly through sugarcane fields, and the whole region is one of the largest sugar-producing areas in China. The climate is subtropical, warm and wet in summer, mild in winter, and often hazy with mist in the mornings.

   Read the complete Jiangzhou District write-up.

   Recorded stop-planning note

   May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

   Planning note

   Jiangzhou District is where the day begins. Next is Longhzou County rock art.

2. 2. Longhzou County rock art

   The great cliff painting here is known as Huashan, which means Flower Mountain, and it is part of the Zuojiang Huashan Rock Art Cultural Landscape, inscribed by UNESCO in 2016. It lies along the Ming River, a tributary of the Zuo, in the karst country of southwest Guangxi near Ningming. On a limestone cliff about two hundred meters wide and rising high above the water, thousands of red figures are painted in iron-rich pigment, showing people with raised arms, bent knees, swords and drums, and dogs among them. The shapes have lasted for roughly two thousand years, protected by an overhang and the dryness of the rock.

   Read the complete Longhzou County rock art write-up.

   Recorded stop-planning note

   May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

   Planning note

   Longhzou County rock art comes up about 77 km into the recorded legs. Next is Ningming and Longzhou County rock art.

3. 3. Ningming and Longzhou County rock art

   Planning note

   about 154 km into the recorded legs you reach Ningming and Longzhou County rock art. Next is back through Longhzou County rock art.

4. 4. back through Longhzou County rock art

   Return visit. Read the place description above.

   Read the complete Longhzou County rock art write-up.

   Recorded stop-planning note

   May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

   Planning note

   back through Longhzou County rock art, late in the day. Next is Jiangzhou District.

5. 5. Jiangzhou District

   Return visit. Read the place description above.

   Read the complete Jiangzhou District write-up.

   Recorded stop-planning note

   May refer to an earlier itinerary; verify against your selected route before riding.

   Planning note

   Back at Jiangzhou District. That is the ride.