Peak of Solitary Beauty (Duxiu Feng)

Peak of Solitary Beauty (Duxiu Feng) Review

The 492-foot Peak of Solitary Beauty, with carved stone stairs leading to the top, offers an unparalleled view of Guilin. It's one of the attractions of the Princess City Solitary Beauty Park. Surrounded by an ancient wall outside of which vendors hawk their wares, sits the heart of old Guilin. Inside are the decaying remains of an ancient Ming Dynasty palace built in 1393 and Guilin's Confucius temple. Sun Yat-sen lived here for a few months in the winter of 1921 (a fact duly noted on the wall by the outside gate). Cixi, the last empress of China, inscribed the character for "longevity" on a rock within these walls.