However, it does depends on conditions and personal preference. So from a local perspective we can show you better views in more remote places. It's worth a visit during the midday light, but if you are interested in landscape photography, it does not have the very best view of the mountains, and you can't see the river. Moon hill is ok, but we can really show you much better compositions. The last review reads " 800 steps to climb this mountain, it is exhausting but it is an unique spot for photographs! the stone arch is worth to see it." Hum. Reading TripAdvisor reviews today the masses feel quite good about old Moon Hill. Perhaps as local photography guides we've been spoiled by the best scenery, become snobs or just know better. The bike ride out takes at least 1 hour, but when you arrive you are not only greeted by 800 steps, a little strenuous, but the main issue is the very persistent vendors. Moon Hill - Photographic Value Questionable Moon Hill is a famous mountain in Yangshuo, and many join the foreign and domestic 'tourist pilgrimage' out to this uniquely arched sharped mountain. Typically 100RMB they will come at 4-5am and carry a bag up for 30 minutes, wait and carry it down when you have finished shooting. Perfect for medium format photographers, although we are happy to arrange a sherpa service, you can pay the locals on the day. We can also arrange a bamboo style motor raft in the pitch black of night to take you upstream from Xingping, and either hike up for a mountain sunrise landscape or choose a section on a quiet part of the river with a great backdrop, with little to zero hiking. When planning we can create a trip around your preferences. If hiking is not your passion, and you're not a navy seal, you probably would enjoy a motor raft or a private car one early morning to a mountain with good steps, to capture a sunrise. That said there are still often 500 steps. We still offer the best landscape photography locations but in a manner that's easier, in most cases. We tend to take our clients to a lesser challenge, but an amazing view, after-all this is their holiday. However, you can't avoid steps, and when I say steps I mean at least 500 continuous steps. Don't think you need to be a mountain goat, some of the best views have good steps and viewing platforms. It really depends on if you are nervous about heights, and if you're a regular hiker, and this would affect your choice of mountain. In the most part the areas we take clients have ok paths, many have lots of steps, one even has a metal ladder in places dodgy water pipes provide a guard rail. On a day off we can be found wading across parts of the river and trekking up a karst mountain on a trail of more loose earth under bushes. The mountains we spend our time in are mostly not on the group tourist tracks, but some will have lots of photographers, as they are know as the most beautiful places, best angle, or have many viewing platforms as interest in the location grows. Many tourist only ever reach Moon Hill, or the occasional ticked mountain with help from a boutique hotel, more on that later. Accessing Photography Locations in Guilin To get to these mountains is difficult and it's almost impossible if you're a tourist and don't speak the language. One could spend days focused on Xingping and Yangshuo, as in these locations there are a number of mountains and river banks to take spectacular shots. There are several mountains with breathtaking views over the Li River (see pictures). Guilin or Yangshuo can be both used as a base, depending on your route and trip focus. Although images landscape photos of Guilin are tagged by photographers as "Guilin" or "Yangshuo", they are usually taken in more remote areas, or nearby a small town taxi's in Guilin city don't even know how to get to, and many tour guides have never been. It's good to know when we talk about 'Guilin', we're not really talking about 'Guilin City'. A photography tour to Guilin offers you more subject diversity than any other location we've visited in China. This is unlike other areas of China, where you fly in to take a picture of A and then fly out. Guilin's got rice terraces, strange karst mountains, paddy fields, the Li River, and patchwork fields with strange karst mountains jetting out of the landscape, a few tea plantations, and all this diversity is within driving distance. Photographers can have a field day in the Guilin area there are so many different areas to explore, either by driving to more remote locations, or by biking and hiking, or taking a raft along the rivers.
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