漓江景点导游词英文.docx

1、漓江景点导游词英文Good Morning! Ladies and Gentlemen:This is speaking. Welcome to visit the Li River by boat, its my great honor and pleasure to be with you and show you around on the boat .To ensure a plain sailing, I have a few tips for you :1. Please dont go up to the deck before the boat embarks. After t

2、he boat is leaving you may go anywhere but not into the water.2. Please dont throw the garbage or food into the river or coins to the children who swimming in the river.Well ,I hope youll enjoy the cruise. Thank you! Our boat is leaving the wharf now, let me give you a brief introduction of Li River

3、. The Li River originates from the Cat mountain in Xingan County,60kms away to the north of Guilin .The total length is 437kms. It flows through Gulin and joins the Pearl River in Canton. Up to the north, it is linked with the Yangtze River system by the Ling Canal. The Li River is really a string o

4、f bright pearls and treasures in the landscape of Guilin. The gurgling water likes a green silk ribbon snakes its way between the thousands peaks and hills. The crystal clear water flows slowly. The up right cliffs, stand by the river side: The green hills float on the water, just like a roll of hun

5、dred miles painting. So to be named as the “famous scenery river in the world” Along the way, one can see not only the clear water, green hills, spectacular rocks, but also splashing waterfalls, deep-green ponds, fishing rafts and cormorants. It offers the most famous and beautiful spots blended wit

6、h stories and legends. Travelling on it may give you a sensation of being carried through a traditional Chinese Painting. 1 、Oxen Gorge And Bat Hill Please look ahead, beside the bank, there is a group of hills consisting of nine peaks which look exactly like nine oxen, being so called the Oxen Gorg

7、e, Before the gorge ,there are two sheer cliffs in the shape of two big bats seemingly flying skyward. Well, bat is considered evil in the west. But in China, The bat is a symbol of happiness, because it is pronounced the same as well-being in Chinese. These are two bats give you a warm welcome by w

8、aving their wings. 2 、Dragons Play In Water Beside the right bank, a lot of stalactites overhung on this sheer cliff, which look like several heads of dragons fetching water from the river. The dragon is not only the symbol of superlative authority in Chinese legend but also the embodiment of the em

9、peror in ancient time. 3 、Expecting Husband RockThere on the top of a small hill standing a rock which looks like a graceful woman carrying her baby on her back. She is standing on the top of this mountain, looking far away. She is waiting for her husband to return . 4 、Grown Cave On the left bank,

10、there is a hill which resembles a Chinese crown in purple and gold of Qin dynasty, being so called Crown Hill. At the foot, there is a cave with a clear spring flowing from it at the same level as the Li River, the entrance of this cave is spacious and overhanging with stalactites in various shapes.

11、 Nobody can enter it in flood seasons, as the arches are rather low, only by lying flat on his back on a raft during the dry seasons, can a visitor enter the arches into the inside world. 5 、The Embroidery Hill The last hill next to the crown cave on the left bank is the embroidery hill. Please look

12、 ahead to the left. Why is it called that name? It collected different tint of red, which interwoven with each other on the cliff, like a huge piece of embroidery with the traditional design of Zhuang Nationality, hence its name Embroidery Hill. Can you imagine who has threaded the needle for beauti

13、ful nature and embroidered this colourful tapestry? 6、 The Immortal Zhang Ridding A Donkey There is an image in white on the cliff. Which looks like an old man riding a donkey with opposite position, what a funny old man he is? It seems that he never been worried about falling off the donkey. Do you

14、 know who the old man is? He is one of the eight immortal in Chinese legend, famous immortal Zhang. 7 、One-side Ferry Everybody knows that ferry is for boats shuttle to and from this band to the opposite side, but there is a ferry not only special but also unique, please look at the right side, A sh

15、eer cliff which is pathless situated beside the river. These local villages are separated from the nearby market at Yang Ti Village by this cliff. In ancient time, local people had to climb the hill to the market. It was so hard that most villagers especially the elders and children could not do tha

16、t. So they built a ferry here that they could go to the market by the ferryboats down and up the river along this side. Hence the name, one side ferry. 10 、The Bamboo Root Peak Ahead of us on the right bank, there is an independent hill. It resembles the root of bamboo. Its so big that you cant find

17、 another one in the world. Legend has it that the bamboo root fell from the heaven by accident. Standing by the river side, as the time went by it was turned into stone ever since then. 11、 Yang Di Village On the right there is a hill with two pointed peaks, which look like the hoof of the goat, in

18、Chinese “the goat hoof” is pronounced “yang ti”. Therefore, the village had the name Yang Di Village. This village is situated among beautiful surrounding. People enjoy their life here. Every year many photographers and artists come here to appreciate the charm of this scenery so that they have a go

19、od environment to make their works. 12 、Carp-Cliff In the lower part of the cliff straight away, between two mountains, there is an image of big carp. It seems to be swimming right with its tail swaying to the left. Its fins mouth and eyes are remarkable, just like a real one. Interestingly, there i

20、s an image in yellow at belly part, which resembles a little fish. Mother fish and baby fish are here, but where is father fish? On the right mountain beside the carp cliff, there is an image of a carp in yellow, gray and black. The head towards the sky, legend that the big carp was fed up with the

21、humdrum life in the water, so he wanted to lead his families to appreciate the scenery of Guilin as he heard it was wonderful, they jumped out of the water and left their image in the cliff forever! 13 、Goddess Hill Over a cluster of peaks on the left bank, you may see a statue of the Goddess Guang

22、Yin with pointed head, sitting on the lotus throne. Her eyes, mouth and nose are noticeable, so we call the hill as Goddess Hill. Before the hill stands a low peaks, resembling a boy kneeling in worship, Guang Yin is the Goddess of mercy in legend. People come to worship her in the hope of being ble

23、ssed a happy life. 14 、Brush Peak Not far away on the right bank, stands a solitary peak in a shape of a Chinese brush, It is said that the picturesque beauty along the river has been painted by the divine brush, and used the river water as ink, and hues of clouds as colours, spread out a roll of pa

24、inting as “hundred miles of Li River, and hundred miles of art gallery” before us, and lead us into an artistic conception of poetry. Certainly, it is attributing to the magical brush. 15 、Apple Hill Straight ahead there is a hill round in shape, which looks like an apple. Legend says the apple also

25、 fell from heaven, one day an unknown greedy man wanted to take the apple home, but it was too heavy to move it, finally the base of apple was broken. As time passed, the apple was turned into stone ever since. As the saying goes “an apple a day keeps doctor away”. Likewise, if you keep the apple hi

26、ll in your mind, the doctors will keep away from you. 19 、Fresco Hill Ahead of us, towards a sheer cliff by the river side on the left, interwoven with colours, white, yellow, black and green. The colours describe a famous Chinese painting “Nine Horses” with the green pantings on the cliff. The whit

27、e colour on the upper part of cliff is a galloping horse, neighing against the wind, head towards to right, legs and tail, you may perceive clearly, All of the others, head towards to left, but with no body. Except two ponies at the bottom of the cliff, which is in white. One is drinking water on th

28、e left, one is eating grass on the right. Legend has it that the horses were from heaven, they were attracted by the picturesque beauty here. They were not willing to be back home. Their images were left on the cliff. 20、 Monkey Rock Please look to the back of Fresco Hill. You see a rock in a shape

29、of a monkey, it is kneeling on the ground with a melon in its paws and back towards to us, so we called it monkey Rock, the local people said the melon was stolen from the nearby field, it was stealing melon when the villager found, it took away the melon and escaped from the field into the mountain

30、 immediately, maybe it feels ashamed of the wrong doing, it would not turn its face to us. 21 、The reflections of yellow beach Ahead of us, there is a piece of cliff with ribbons of colours on the right bank. The design is similar with the embroidery of a piece of silk from Su Zhou. As it linked wit

31、h the reflection in water, it looks more graceful, what a perfect combination it is! As a poem goes “Plainly see the top of hills but boats floating on it”. The reflections are great wonder of Li River. 23 、The Old Xing Ping Town The boat is arriving at a small town, named Xing Ping, situated at the

32、 foot of a mountain. Although its a small town about 1300 years old, its not only noted for its history, but also for its customs, local speciality and scenery. For customs, the local people have performance at certain traditional day which you could not find in other places; for the speciality, the famous grapefruit dried persimmon; chestnut and water chestnut are well-known at hone and aboard; for the scenery, hills and rivers surround the town, groups of green bamboos along the banks, cloud and fog floating among the mountains, how a fairy land it is! No wonder the poet said: