Ling Canal one day tour

         

It takes one and half hour to get there from Guilin city, you can see the Ling Canal as well as Qing Culture Center.  Ling Canal , situated at north of Xing' an, is 58 kilometers far from Guilin. It is 34 km long and the oldest canal in the world. The Ling Canal was built in the 214 BC of Qin Dynasty.

It consists of a plough share, a water diversion dam, a south canal and a north canal, a spillway as well as boatlocks, the canal was scientifically designed and constructed.

The canal was once an important means of transports serving the region before railways and roads were constructed. This canal still serves a purposes by irrigating about 2700 hectare of agricultural land.
This canal connects the Xiang River of Hunan Province with the Gui River of Guangxi. The first flows northward toward the Yangtze River and the latter southward toward the China Sea.

In bygone days before railroads and motor highways, this elaborate canal was of great assistance to China 's transport and unity. Construction was started two centuries before Christ and was a the farsighted project of the great Emperor Chin Shi Huang Ti, who built China 's Great Wall.

It is possible to sail from Guangzhou by traveling up the Xiang and Gui Rivers to this canal and passing through it, proceed down the Xiang River to the Yangtze, hence to the Grand Canal and even as far as Peiping without getting off the boat.

Meet you at the lobby of hotel in Guilin at 9 am, one and an half hours drive to Lin Canal, visit Lin Canal, Xingan Water Street and have Chinese lunch there, drive back to Guilin at about 2 or 3 pm.