Guilin Two Rivers & Four Lakes Scenic Area

This guide to Guilin's Two Rivers and Four Lakes follows the old city moat from its Tang-dynasty origins as a defensive ring through centuries of expansion and silting, to its transformation in the late 1990s into a seven-kilometer loop connecting four lakes. It also traces the story behind the twin pagodas rising from Shanhu Lake, one bronze and one glazed tile, and the cormorant fishermen still working these waters the old way.