Nanning 4-Day Tour to the Border & Beihai
The full sweep: the Green City, the Detian transnational waterfall, the Friendship Pass on the Vietnamese border and the beach at Beihai. Bookable end-to-end by our team.
Day-by-Day Plan
The Green City. Qingxiu Mountain (¥20), the Museum of Nationalities (free), Nanhu Park and Zhongshan Road at night. Base yourself in the new CBD.
Detian transnational waterfall. The 08:30 special coach from Langdong to Detian (¥80) — the two-tier 200-metre curtain, Ban Gioc on the Vietnamese side and the Number 53 stele. Return coach 15:30, back in Nanning by early evening.
Friendship Pass & Huashan. Morning: train 5517 at 07:58 to Pingxiang (¥30, arrives 12:00), then a 40-minute charter to Friendship Pass (¥10) — "the second best pass under heaven", the site of the 1885 Zhennan Pass victory and Sun Yat-sen's only armed uprising. If you hold a Vietnam e-visa, walk through to Dong Dang and take a minibus to Hanoi; otherwise return to Pingxiang. Optionally add the Huashan rock art boat (¥35) on the Zuojiang — the 2,000-3,000-year-old red cliff paintings, now protected by no-landing rules.
Beihai Silver Beach. Morning: coach or train south to Beihai (Jiangnan Coach Station ¥55 every 40 min, about 3 hours; or K9319 13:05 ¥44.5). Spend the afternoon on the silver-sand beach, walk Beihai Old Street and eat Beibu Gulf seafood. Overnight in Beihai or return to Nanning by the last evening coach.
Book this Nanning itinerary
Hotels, Detian tickets, Daming shuttles, train seats and Vietnam transfers arranged by our team — free of charge, no obligation.
What it costs
Qingxiu ¥20, Detian ¥80, Friendship Pass ¥10, Huashan boat ¥35, train to Pingxiang ¥30, coach to Beihai ¥55. Add hotels and meals — budget ¥800-1,200 per person over four days.
Two bases
Nights 1-3 in Nanning's new CBD (Marriott ¥600+, Phoenix ¥310, hostels ¥50); night 4 by Beihai Silver Beach. Browse Guangxi hotels.
Four days of flavour
Laoyou noodles and Zhongshan Road in Nanning, farmhouse lunch at Daxin, Pingxiang border-town snacks, Beibu Gulf seafood and liuzhou river-snail noodles in Beihai — plus suanye pickled fruit for the road.