Seven Star Crags (Zhaoqing)
National 5A Tourist Attraction; Part Of The Dinghushan UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Area · Zhaoqing, Guangdong
Seven limestone hills standing out of a lake on the edge of Zhaoqing, arranged - according to local tradition - in the pattern of the Big Dipper, which is where the name comes from. The crags are karst towers of the same family as the hills at Guilin, but here they rise from still water rather than a river, and the effect from the causeways that thread between them is of a Chinese painting assembled at ground level. The lake was dug from marshland in the 1950s and the dykes planted with willow and banyan, so the whole thing is part natural wonder and part landscape engineering. Paths climb several of the crags to pavilions with views back over the water, caves run through the limestone at the base, and the cliffs carry more than five hundred inscriptions cut between the Tang dynasty and the present, one of the largest concentrations of cliff calligraphy in southern China. Since mid-August 2026 the park has again opened free in the evenings, when the crags are lit and the causeways fill with local walkers.
Duanzhou District, Zhaoqing, Zhaoqing, Guangdong, China
Daily, about 8:00-18:00 with last entry at 18:00; free evening access roughly 19:00-22:00 with last entry at 22:00, reinstated on 15 August 2026.
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