Huangguoshu Waterfall Travel Guide

Huangguoshu Waterfall is located in White Water River in Zhenning Buyi and Miao minorities autonomous county in Anshun City Guizhou Province. It is the largest waterfall in China. Visitors can appreciate the waterfall scenery on the pavilion built opposite to the waterfall. Behind the waterfall, there is a cave called “Water Curtain Cave”, in a depth of 20 meters. Covered by waterfall all year around, visitors can see the natural water curtain scene on the entrance of the cave.

The Huangguoshu Waterfall Scenic Area takes the waterfall as the center, there are 18 different sizes waterfalls together, formed into a waterfall family, thus ranks the largest waterfall group in Genius World Record.

Huanguoshu Waterfall is the most magnificent one among the waterfall group. It is the unique one can be saw from above, bottom, front, back, left and right angles. It is also the waterfall which has water curtain cave that throughout. 


1 Day Trip to Huangguoshu Waterfall Scenic Area
Route: Dragon Palace - Huangguoshu Waterfall - Huangguoshu Rafting Area
Itinerary: in the morning firstly visit Dragon Palace to see the karst topography. In this attraction, you can take boat to do the sightseeing including three tops in China - the highest waterfall, the longest underground river, the lowest radiated power in the world. After that, visit the largest waterfall in Asia - Huangguoshu. Go through the amazing water curtain cave. At last, enjoy a rafting in Huangguoshu Scenic Area.


3 Days Trip to Huangguoshu Waterfall Scenic Area
Day 1 Stone Village, Huangguoshu Waterfall
Arrival Zhenning county to visit Stone Village. After lunch, drive to Huangguoshu town and have a rest in the after noon. During the night, enjoy a night view of the Huangguoshu Waterfall. The night view of this waterfall is amazing.

Day 2 Huangguoshu Waterfall, Tianxingqiao Scenic Area
In the early morning, enter into the scenic area to see the morning scenery of the waterfall. And then, go through the water cave curtain. After lunch, drive the Tianxingqiao Scenic Area (7 km away). After a 3 hours visiting, back to Huangguoshu Town and stay overnight.

Day 3 Dragon Palace, Gutunbao Village
In the morning, visit Dragon Palace to see the karst topography. In the afternoon, drive to Gutunbao Village for a visiting, After that, back to Anshun City.


Main Scenic Area

Huangguoshu Waterfall
Huangguoshu Waterfall is in a height of 77.8 meters, and a width of 101 meters, ranking the largest waterfall in China. There are three level water flows - large, medium, small. Different flow levels will bring you different scenery. When in the medium flow, the scenery is the most beautiful. During this season, you can see a rainbow in front of the waterfall.


Water Curtain Cave
Huangguoshu Waterfall is featured by the Water Curtain Wave which is on the half of the waterfall. The cave is hidden behind the waterfall. The cave is in a length of 134 meters, 6 cave windows, 5 cave halls, 3 cave stream, 6 cave channels. It is amazing to walk close to the waterfall. And it is more exciting to walk into the waterfall. 


Rhinoceros Pool
Rhinoceros Pool is the largest plunge pool of Huangguoshu Waterfall. Because its shapes like rhinoceros, thus the name. The pool is in a depth of 11.1meters. It is aid that when Wu Sangui retreated his army here, he decided to throw the treasure into this pool. But it is only a legend, no one can prove whether it really has treasure in the bottom or not.


Sky Star Basin
Sky Star Basin is a star forest landscape. There are countless natural hills and stone rocks scenery. The stone road goes through the hills, just like walking into a fairyland or a ground maze. 


Sky Star Cave
Sky Star Cave is located in the middle part of Tianxingqiao Scenic Area. It is a typical karst topography cave. The natural scene inside the cave are fantastic. The colored lights make the cave seem crystal. The stalactites inside look like art works such as ice carvings, Tang tri-color porcelains, etc.


Silver Necklace Pool Waterfall
Silver Necklace Pool is famous for the beautiful water and the sound. The waterfall looks like thousands of necklaces falling down to the pool.