Transportation

By plane: There are five civil airports in Guangxi province: Guilin, Nanning, Beihai, Liuzhou and Wuzhou. Guilin, the world popular tourist destination, has flights connecting it with most domestic cities as well as Hongkong and cities in Japan, Korea and Australia. Nanning, the provincial capital, has direct flights, some daily, to cities like Beijing (3hrs), Shanghai (3hrs) Chengdu (1.5hrs), Dalian (5hrs) and Guangzhou (1hr). (See the total list). Beihai, the port city, has also a dozen of flights available.

By railway: The Hunan-Guangxi Railway, the major railway in Guangxi province, is connected with the Beijing-Guangzhou Railway to the east and the railway in Vietnam to the west. Trains can go into Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. Major tourist destinations as Nanning, Guilin and Beihai are conveniently connected by railway.

By road: Travel by bus within Guangxi is a good possibility. With the completion of several city-to-city highways, the major cites in Guangxi are well connected so that journeys by coach are usually cheap, convenient and take less time than years before, Nanning-Beihai (2hrs); Nanning-Liuzhou (2.5hrs); Nanning-Guilin (4hrs).

By water: There are ferries from Wuzhou to Guangzhou (2 daily; 17hours; about RMB80) and head on to Hong Kong (1daily; 8hours). Beihai is another transit port for tourists headed for Hainan Island. The dasily Beihai-Haikou ferry takes about 11hours (Details please see the Beihai section).