月亮山

This guide to Moon Hill in Guilin opens with an American climber named Todd Skinner working out a route beneath the hill's stone arch in 1992, then reaches back through the legends people found in the cave above it, the moon goddess and her jade rabbit, and a woodcutter forever cutting a tree that regrows as fast as he swings. You'll climb the roughly eight hundred stone steps worn smooth by climbers and pilgrims alike. Look straight up through the arch as you go — the shape of the opening changes with every turn.