I have come to love playing with techniques such as panning and long exposures, so over the next few blog posts, I want to share with you some great photography locations in Guilin city and also fun ideas you can try in at night in Guilin.

I've split this post into a few parts, today I want to share my favorite all round location and the best location for nightime landscape photographers in Guilin.

If you are in Guilin city on a tour, a holiday or business and photography is your thing, I suggest in the evening walking down the walking street towards the Waterfall Hotel, behind those trees from 8pm to 10pm you'll find lots of tour boats on the lake. 

Most of the boats have lights, some vivid neon, perfect for playing with long exposures and effects. This location is free and within easy walking distance from most hotels.

Here are a couple of photographs I took that evening this week:

In this location there is a problem to get high enough to keep the boat lights over the water, compounded by the fact that I only had my nifty fifty with me. If only those white boat roof LED's could be turned off. That said, I still kinda like the effect, to me it sums up the approach of Chinese tour companies, fast fast fast! 

These are true images with zero photoshop. The colors of the neon lights on this one particular boat are vivid, and the pagodas are illuminated brightly until 10 to 10.30 each night. The switch off time seems to be varied, it was 10.20 this particular night.

By Andy Beales

This summer we launched a new promotion for guiding only at discounted rates. Our aim was to fill our last few guiding slots, and we have mostly done that.  However, there are still some photo guide days open and you can still take advantage of our sale. If your visiting Guilin this summer and need a Guilin photography tour and can book with 15 days notice we are offering some great discounts on free slots.

There are very few places left, so please contact us to check your dates ASAP. This offer is limited until September 31st. 

Offer Price:

Sorry, All discounted slots now filled

Prices are shown in US dollars, per person per day for guiding time only.
The special offer is valid for customers who book 15 days in advance.
You will need to pay to hold a guide, see the guide payment page.

If hiring 'guide only', you need to ensure the travel arrangements you make ensure their is space in the car, bamboo raft, for the guide and you cover the guides ground costs. Such as entry fees to areas such as Longji rice fields, and bus tickets.