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Guiyang attractions
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Guizhou cultures, karst parks and cool mountain air.

Plan Guiyang's museums, city parks and Qingyan with separate long-distance waterfall or mountain options. Find places that fit your interests, open a full guide for visit tips and use the itinerary and planner to put your days together.

Jiaxiu Tower, Guiyang.
Jiaxiu Tower, Guiyang.
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Karst landscapes, urban hills and Guizhou collections. Base in the center for old-city walks or in Guanshanhu for the museum district. Qingyan and southern Huaxi, Tianhetan to the west, and northern Xiuwen/Xifeng are separate travel corridors.

Plan five days

The five-day route groups neighboring visits and protects a full day for a distant excursion. Use the attraction directory to find places that fit your interests. The booking planner helps you organize visit dates and reminders. If a booking schedule is not listed, check it directly with the venue.

Before committing to a visit

Bring the original passport used for any real-name booking. If the official form does not support your document, ask the venue for its accepted overseas-visitor process; do not enter a fabricated mainland identity number. Tickets for separate sites, branches, boats, lifts, performances and exhibitions are not automatically interchangeable.

About the attraction listings

This city contains 47 A-level records within the published 2026-07-31 municipal baseline, plus 1 additions and 15 detailed visit guides. The baseline is the complete list within that publication, not a newly issued register dated today.

  • Complete list within the published 2026-07-31 baseline; not represented as a newly issued October 2026 register. Later openings, closures and grading changes may not be reflected.
  • Directory administrative geography includes county-level destinations that can require a full day. Listed addresses are not automatically verified visitor gates.
  • English names are editorial translations: generic entity terms are translated and remaining proper names romanized; they are not represented as official English names.
  • Municipal publication covers Guiyang–Gui’an together; Gui’an Yunman Lake is retained with its published separate location.

Useful sources for Guiyang

  1. Guiyang official A-level directory — municipal baselineChecked Oct 24, 2026

    Official source scope and stored snapshot are documented in the city catalog manifest; current access is venue-specific.

  2. Guiyang Government English — Guizhou Provincial Museum collection profileChecked Oct 24, 2026

    Official source scope and stored snapshot are documented in the city catalog manifest; current access is venue-specific.

  3. Guizhou Provincial Museum — official English visitor serviceChecked Oct 24, 2026

    Official source scope and stored snapshot are documented in the city catalog manifest; current access is venue-specific.

Before you visit

Open a full guide for practical visit information. For places marked Basic details, check current opening hours, tickets and the visitor entrance with the venue before you travel.

About the attraction listings

This page includes 47 A-level attraction listings and 1 other places to explore. An A-level rating does not confirm that a place is open today. Each listing links to its source and checked date.

Municipal directory; baseline 2026-07-31.

  • Complete list within the published 2026-07-31 baseline; not represented as a newly issued October 2026 register. Later openings, closures and grading changes may not be reflected.
  • Directory administrative geography includes county-level destinations that can require a full day. Listed addresses are not automatically verified visitor gates.
  • English names are editorial translations: generic entity terms are translated and remaining proper names romanized; they are not represented as official English names.
  • Municipal publication covers Guiyang–Gui’an together; Gui’an Yunman Lake is retained with its published separate location.

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3AFull guide

Banqiao Art Village

贵阳市花溪板桥艺术村景区

Huaxi · culture

Former industrial spaces and artists' studios make Banqiao a useful contemporary contrast to Qingyan's historic townscape.

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Geological Museum of Guizhou

观山湖区贵州省地质博物馆景区

Guanshanhu · museum · culture

Fossils, minerals and geological interpretation explain the province's karst landscapes before you see them outdoors. This is a separate museum from the Provincial Museum.

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Guizhou Provincial Museum

贵州省博物馆

Guanshanhu · culture · museum

The collection puts Guizhou's archaeology and diverse communities in context. Costumes and silverwork give the region's cultural history a particularly strong visual dimension.

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Huaxi Wetland Park and Confucius Academy

贵阳市花溪湿地公园(孔学堂)景区

Huaxi · nature · park

This rated area combines a river-valley landscape with the Confucius Academy. It is better understood as several linked visitor areas than as a compact monument.

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Jiaxiu Tower

贵阳市南明甲秀楼景区

Nanming · culture

The tower's setting over the Nanming River is the attraction: stone bridges, layered eaves and water views create a compact architectural stop.

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Nanjiang Grand Canyon

贵阳市开阳南江大峡谷景区

Kaiyang · nature · park

The canyon is a substantial outdoor outing beyond central Guiyang. Cliffs, water and narrow paths require more planning than an urban park.

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Qianlingshan Park

贵阳市云岩黔灵山公园旅游景区

Yunyan · nature · park

A wooded urban mountain, lake and temple make this the city's most convenient substantial nature outing. The official directory describes its hills, streams, caves and macaques.

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Qingyan Ancient Town

贵阳市花溪青岩古镇景区

Huaxi south · history · culture

Stone lanes, gateways and historic compounds make Qingyan a town-scale visit. The reward is in leaving the busiest commercial spine and reading the architecture at a slower pace.

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Quanhu Park

贵阳市白云泉湖公园景区

Baiyun · nature · park

Quanhu offers a lower-pressure northern park day with lakeside paths and landscaped space. It is useful when a full mountain excursion would be excessive.

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Tianhetan Scenic Area

贵阳市花溪区天河潭景区

Huaxi west · nature · park

Karst water scenery makes Tianhetan a distinct outing from Guiyang's city parks. Surface walks and cave experiences need different expectations.

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Wenchang Pavilion

贵阳市云岩区文昌阁景区

Yunyan · culture

Its unusual nine-cornered roof and courtyard arrangement distinguish Wenchang Pavilion from a generic city tower. The official directory also identifies remnants of the east gate defenses.

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Xifeng Concentration Camp Memorial

贵阳市息烽集中营革命历史纪念馆景区

Xifeng · museum · history

The memorial combines historical interpretation with a former detention site. Its subject calls for time and respectful behavior rather than a hurried scenic stop.

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Xiuwen Yangming Cultural Park

贵阳市修文阳明文化园旅游景区

Xiuwen · culture

Xiuwen provides a more extensive setting for Wang Yangming's Longchang period than the city-center shrine. It deserves a deliberate northern excursion.

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Yangming Shrine

贵阳市云岩区阳明祠景区

Yunyan · history · religion

The official directory describes a compound of the Wang Yangming shrine, Yin Daozhen shrine, Fufeng Temple and Fufeng Hill. It offers an introduction to the philosopher's regional legacy.

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Yelang Valley

贵阳市花溪夜郎谷景区

Huaxi · culture

Stone sculptures and dramatic faces give this privately created art landscape a visual language unlike a conventional ancient ruin.

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Xiuwen Wildlife Park

贵阳市修文野生动物园

Xiu Wen · family · nature