7 Days in Nanning

The 5A hill of about 290 m, rated in 2014, with a nine-storey pagoda first raised in the Ming Wanli years; below, the drum-shaped 2008 museum keeps hundreds of bronze drums.

1. nanning qingxiu mountain
2. nanning guangxi museum of nationalities

Qing-Republican shopfronts reopened in 2018; the museum's Western Han bronze phoenix lamp was unearthed at Hepu in 1971; Zhongshan Road's food stalls run late.

1. nanning sanjie liangxiang
2. nanning guangxi museum

Thirty-six km southwest, a river town of about a thousand years — stone lanes, Ming-Qing houses and temple stages left by the merchant days on the river.

1. nanning yangmei ancient town

An honestly labelled neighbouring-prefecture day — the falls lie in Daxin County, Chongzuo, about 200 km out and three and a half hours by road, a three-tiered drop of some 70 m on the Vietnam border.

1. nanning detian falls

The cool karst galleries half an hour north in the morning, People's Park and its early-20th-century cannon platform in the afternoon.

1. nanning yiling cave
2. nanning renmin park

A neighbouring-city day, labelled as such — 1.5 hours each way by high-speed rail for an arcaded old street laid out in the 1880s and the 24-km sweep of Silver Beach.

1. nanning beihai old street
2. nanning beihai silver beach

A slow final circuit of the lake parks, a last noodle breakfast and the train or flight home from the Green City.

1. nanning nanhu park
2. nanning min ge lake