Nanxi Mountain

This guide to Nanxi Mountain in Guilin follows the Taoist hermit Liu Jing, who is said to have climbed into a hillside cave over a thousand years ago to brew pills of immortality, and the two carvings inside that show him before and after. It traces the spring at the mountain's foot once sent north as tribute for the Imperial Court, and a Song-dynasty rock carving so fine it now holds a Guinness World Record. Listen for how the twin peaks got their nickname long before anyone counted the cherry trees.