Mulong Lake （West Gate）

This guide to Mulong Lake's West Gate in Guilin opens with bulldozers and the roughly two thousand households that were relocated to make way for water that had vanished eight centuries earlier. It follows the stone carving of a Song-dynasty city map that planners used as their blueprint, and the excavation that turned a crowded neighborhood back into a moat and lake. You'll hear where the lakeside pagoda's design was borrowed from, and how the old streets nearby were laid out from a single scroll painting. Listen for what the guide calls someone's front doorstep, once.