Graduation season is in full swing—come to vibrant Guigang for camping fun and enjoy your holiday
⛹️Guigang, Guangxi, is a city full of sports energy. The men's adult Group A basketball qualifiers of the 15th National Games have just concluded here, ⚽️ and the 15th Guangxi Football Super League is about to kick off. The excitement never stops, and the sports never end!
✈️Whether you want to follow the "Guichao" tour around Guangxi or are a student looking for a lively city to experience youthful vitality during graduation season, consider adding Guigang to your travel list! Here, we have carefully selected some lesser-known camping spots and places to avoid crowds for your enjoyment. Be sure to save this quickly!
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🙋♂️【Recommended Camping Spots】
Xishanquan RV (Motorhome) Camping Base
🔍Location: Xishan Town, Guiping City
🌟Highlights: Luxury wild camping, outdoor adventure
🏕️Tired of the city's hustle and bustle? Escape to the outdoors for camping! We recommend the Xishanquan RV Camping Base located at the foot of Xishan Mountain, surrounded by forest, where you can quietly enjoy outdoor life in the wilderness. This camping base meets various travelers' needs for outdoor accommodation, offering tent campsites, valley wooden cabins, wind chime cottages, trailer RV sites, self-driving RV sites, and motel-style luxury facilities. Visitors can choose their preferred overnight style to experience camping life.
🧗Not only are there diverse camping options, but the activities are also rich. Outdoor adventure enthusiasts can form groups for exciting jungle exploration, play real-life CS battles, attack-defense archery, bubble soccer, climb and traverse high and low net courses, and more. For those seeking speed and thrill, try track cycling, drive a go-kart, race, challenge yourself, and train your physical and mental endurance to unleash unlimited vitality!
🎈The camping base also offers hot air balloon rides. Brave visitors can ascend high in a hot air balloon to enjoy panoramic views of Guangxi and the feeling of freedom. Additionally, the non-powered park features slides, swings, and other simple pleasures; you can watch exciting performances at the straw theater and learn about nature in the natural classroom and grass hall. Of course, there is a barbecue area—when tired, sit down to enjoy local delicacies and chat. With such a colorful day, you will surely make the most of your youthful time!
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Sandai Tea Luxury Wild Camp
🔍Location: About 20 kilometers north of Guigang city center
🌟Highlights: Camping, barbecue, fishing, farming
🏕️Sandai Tea Luxury Wild Camp is near Pingtian Mountain Forest Park and adjacent to Pingtian Mountain Liuban Reservoir, surrounded by mountains and water with beautiful scenery everywhere. The camp’s tent design is simple and fresh, harmoniously blending with the green mountains and clear waters, making it perfect for photos! The camp is decorated with many ambient lights that create a beautiful warm atmosphere at night.
🌞The camp is well-equipped with barbecue areas, including grills and self-service wood stoves. You can invite friends to barbecue and brew tea here, enjoying a leisurely camping time. Being close to water, fishing is a must for fishing enthusiasts to show their skills. There is also a children's sandpit where kids can play freely, enjoying parent-child time. The camp hosts themed parties, birthday parties, team-building events, making it ideal for summer class reunions, weekend company team-building, and family trips.
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🙋【Recommended Play Spots】
Hemei Qintang · Humei Four Seasons Pastoral Complex
🔍Location: Yaoshan Village and Longfeng Village, northwest Qintang District
🌟Highlights: Lotus viewing, amusement park, cute animals
🎠How can youthful memories be complete without amusement park fun? When visiting Guigang during the holidays, be sure to have a blast at Hemei Qintang · Humei Four Seasons Scenic Area! Here you’ll find a romantic carousel, thrilling pirate ship, exciting drop tower, spinning tower, fun bumper cars, and more. You can enjoy romantic moments and experience speed and excitement, rediscovering your childhood joy and having lots of fun!
🐫Of course, the amusement park also features a petting zoo! Hemei Qintang Scenic Area has many adorable animals, including popular alpacas, beautiful zebras, camels from afar, playful monkeys, and more. You can get up close to feed them, interact intimately, or take photos together—very heartwarming. You can also watch goat and monkey combo performances for endless fun! Additionally, from July to September, the thousand-acre lotus flowers in Hemei Qintang will be in full bloom, with endless lotus ponds, jade-green leaves, and blooming flowers—an unforgettable sight! The Lotus Culture Tourism Festival will also kick off, so why not enjoy a summer lotus viewing trip and take beautiful photos? Wearing light-colored clothes is recommended for a striking contrast with the lotus flowers and leaves, making your photos even more stunning and memorable.
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Baihuashan Leisure Valley
🔍Location: North side of Beihuan Road, Guigang City
🌟Highlights: Sea of clouds sunrise, wind turbines, paragliding
🌄Start your first day exploring vibrant Guigang with an energizing mountain hike! Early morning, hike along the trail to the observation platform atop Baihua Mountain to quietly watch the sunrise, enjoy the morning light, and admire the mist-covered mountains, basins, and towns. Breathing the fresh mountain air and watching the clouds roll by, you’ll feel all fatigue melt away. Don’t forget to capture this fleeting sea of clouds sunrise with your camera, making this peaceful and magnificent mountain moment a perfect start to your energetic journey.
🖼️After the morning mist clears, you’ll see huge wind turbines standing among the rolling hills, their large blades slowly turning in the sunlight, like a scene from a comic come to life. Snap some photos for treasured summer memories. Baihua Mountain also has a paragliding base where adventurous visitors can try paragliding under professional guidance, enjoying beautiful mountain and city views from the sky—a unique and thrilling experience.
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Gongzhou Park
🔍Location: Northern part of Pingnan County urban area
🌟Highlights: Walking, running, leisure entertainment
🚶When visiting a city, be sure to stroll through a local park to see how residents relax and entertain themselves. This helps you immerse in the city’s culture and everyday life. Gongzhou Park is a place to experience the local flavor of Pingnan County, Guigang, and a favorite spot for locals to walk, run, exercise, and relax. The park is lush with vegetation, and under the shade, you’ll see people playing chess, cards, musical instruments, singing, and dancing—very leisurely and pleasant. In open areas, locals play volleyball and work out, blending daily life with vitality in an infectious way. Join in and feel like a local Pingnan resident, experiencing the city’s lively atmosphere firsthand.
🏞️Gongzhou Park’s natural environment is excellent. If you just want to enjoy the scenery, it’s worth a visit. The park has over 100,000 trees and shrubs, lush and green in summer. Lakes like Zuiyue Lake and Lotus Lake reflect the green trees and mountains, while cultural sites like Zhuangyuan Pavilion and Zhengjue Temple add charm. You can walk or jog along the lakeshore, breathe fresh air, and do some aerobic exercise—a refreshing new travel experience.
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Guigang Happy Pastoral
🔍Location: Beihuan Road, Gangbei District
🌟Highlights: Farming, flower sea, straw art
🌾The song "Rice Fragrance" sings: "The folk songs of the countryside, forever a support, come home, back to the original beauty." For those with a pastoral affection, Guigang Happy Pastoral will help you rediscover that original beauty! The pastoral features a dreamy flower sea park, with flowers of different colors blooming in their seasons, painting the fields with brilliant colors. There are also large plots of farmland growing rice, fruit trees, vegetables, etc. Parents can bring children here to learn about agriculture, pick up hoes to weed and cultivate, plant fruits and vegetables, and enjoy the fun of harvesting crops, improving their comprehensive skills through farming labor. The park also has a natural wild camping area and a joyful parent-child playground, perfect for family outings and sharing parent-child time.
🌾In early May this year, Guigang Happy Pastoral created a new attraction—the Giant Strawman Kingdom! The entire park is filled with straw elements, with straw animals, farming tools, and flying machines scattered throughout the straw-covered park, each a great photo opportunity! The park also has a straw hat graffiti hall where after taking photos with the straw figures, you can sit down to paint a straw hat and DIY your own exclusive hat as a travel souvenir to take home!
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📝Travel Tips
◻️Before hiking, check the weather and road conditions. Do not hike in the rain or take wild trails; bring enough water and food to replenish energy; use sun protection in summer; do not litter.
◻️For outdoor camping, learn camping knowledge in advance to ensure campsite safety; do not bring fire sources or flammable and explosive items; smoking and open flames are prohibited in forest areas; do not litter.
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👒With summer vacation approaching and the travel peak season coming, if you want to avoid crowds, come to Guigang! Save these hidden gem spots for a crowd-free trip and enjoy to the fullest!
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Image sources: Visual China, Guigang Municipal Bureau of Culture, Radio, Television, Sports and Tourism Official Account
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