Seven Star Park

This guide to Seven Star Park in Guilin follows the cave beneath your feet from the Tang-dynasty monks and explorers who first left inscriptions on its walls, more than thirteen hundred years ago, to the nineteen-forties when families packed into its galleries to escape wartime air raids over the city. You'll walk the same route those families once took, past formations tour guides nickname a natural fresco and a chessboard. Listen for how the seven peaks around you are said to trace the shape of the Big Dipper.