East Guilin Video

This video, taken by me on 19 April 2009, shows the Guilin City area, from the vantage point of a steep mesa on the eastern edge of the city, on a fine spring afternoon that was more like summer.

The video begins by looking east towards the mountains of Linggui (pronounced ling-gway and meaning Spirit Osmanthus) and the city administrative area’s eastern border. In the years to come Guilin is forecast to continue expanding until it reaches these mountains. The white rock of the pinnacle opposite me is directly east. That and the limestone pinnacle I am standing on will probably become a park. I think it’s too beautiful and fun to blast to pieces for building material, like the half peak in the middle distance at the beginning of the clip.

Then the camera swings north and you can see the villages and peaks on the current eastern limits of the city.

Rotating to face west there is the new eastern section of Guilin City’s second ring road, and beyond that the expanse of the current built up area. In the middle distance, first there are the seven peaks of Seven Star Park to the northwest, then Tunnel Hill directly west. In the foreground you can see the bare earth of construction zones on the edge of the new ring road.

Penultimately, there is the mountain and village area to the south, including an old chemical factory that is being dismantled for redevelopment at the bottom of the peak.

The clip finishes with the camera pointing at Yao Mountain to the northeast, which I and other colleagues have mentioned in this blog. At just under 1000 meters above sea level, it’s the tallest mountain in the city jurisdiction.