Guiyang: Asia's largest waterfalls

The Huangguoshu Waterfall, rising over seventy meters, remains China's largest waterfall, visitable even from a tunnel carved behind the water wall.

A few minutes from downtown, Qianling Park hosts a fauna of wild macaques around a mountaintop Buddhist temple built on a forested hillside.

Continuing toward the interior, one reaches Miao and Dong villages, ethnic minorities that preserve traditional wooden architectures and characteristic covered bridges of Guizhou.

Toward evening, the Yang Ming district animates with restaurants serving the spicy cuisine typical of the province.

The Huangguoshu waterfall, described in Chinese texts from the sixteenth century, remains Eastern Asia's broadest waterfall, part of a system of eighteen connected waterfalls along the same karst waterway.

Guizhou, among China's least developed provinces until recent decades, safeguards today an authentic karst and cultural heritage among the country's most valuable, with dozens of ethnic minorities.