Wednesday 30 October 2024

Little Guilin

Guilin is a prefecture-level city in the Northeast of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China. It is most famous for its iconic limestone mountains and caves, making it one of China's most popular tourist destinations.  

Singapore has a Guilin too – Little Guilin, or Xiao Guilin (Chinese: 小桂林). Little Guilin is a far cry from the Guilin in China which has long been renowned for its scenery of karst rock formations, crystal clear waters and many caves to explore.

Little Guilin was a granite quarry until the 1980s when mining discontinued. There were plans to develop the disused quarry into a road. However, seeing its slight resemblance to the granite rock formations in Guilin, China – albeit a much smaller version of it, the developers decided to develop the place into a park instead. Soon after, the park came to be known fondly as Little Guilin, or Xiao Guilin (Chinese: 小桂林) by the locals.

Guilin park is not a very big park. But within the little park, “towering rock cliffs make a majestic backdrop to the large lake.” Serene and peaceful, the park is a good place to relax and just chill, or to enjoy a picnic with friends or family.

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