Guilin
Travel Blogs from Guilin, China
Days in Transit
... ;the hotel staff we went to our little restaurant for one last meal before leaving for the bus station. When we arrived in Guilin we ended up getting turned around because we came out of the wrong end of the station so we had to back track a ...
Guilin
... of jolts and breaks and flying around that ensued through the night. Safe to say we were pleased to disembark! Arrived in Guilin and saw the stunning scenery of the Seven Star Park, including the impressive (albeit with the standard Chinese ...
Rain, rain, rain, rain, and yes, more rain!
... last day in Yangshuo visiting the water caves, paddling about in the streets and watching DVD's (!) and we are now in Guilin, the city to the north of Yangshuo. We left this morning (in the pouring rain!) on the public bus and arrived here ...
October 8, 2004
... peak in town. The mountains amazed me-huge rocky formations jutting to obscene heights from right out of the ground. Although Guilin is a hotspot for Chinese tourists, it is still worth visiting. I appreciated the cleanliness more than anything else. Not ...
Yunnan - in search of internet access....
... too well as for some reason I kept thinking about being propelled from my bunk if the train crashed! Took a minibus from Guilin train station to Yuangshuo which is a town about an hour away with amazing limestone pinnacle scenery. Our Chinese guesthouse ...
Guilin city tour
Today I took a full day tour of Guilin. I was joined by just one other couple from London. Our first stop was Seven Star Park. There was something for everyone in this park. There was an ampitheaterfor shows. ...
South Through China - A Beast of a Blog - Part II
... enjoying those train rides because I get so much reading and writing done... but that was the last long one in China and ended in Guilin... Again, we didn't do much there - it was just a transit town - we were aiming for ...
Where are we?
... constraint or visa constraints the trip might have been a little different. Fortunately we have a few free days built into our China leg so needless to say a few days will be spent doing as little as possible. And then of course we should have ...
Wet Wet Wet (not the band)
... the Titanic theme and managed to miss every single word and every single note going, bravo. So 20 hours later we arrived in Guilin at 5am, where it was raining, we then proceeded to wake up the entire hostel getting in, oops. We found in our room ...
Steps, moon radicals and dictionaries.
... in time to have one last homecooked meal from Chinese Mama back in Longsheng. The next morning, we packed up and headed back to Guilin so Erin and Lindsay could meet up with their mom in Beijing, and I could start the solo-part of my journey and head ...
Castles of carst
Not much happened here. It biked amongst the carst and the water buffaloes. It was pretty indeed. *** WORLD CHANGE STARTS WITH EDUCATED CHILDREN! Give a girl the life long gift of education! Support my appeal 100 GIRLS BACK TO SCHOOL! ...
Chinese Pizza
... a lovely German girl I got talking to and almost made me think maybe I should stay at least one more night. The bus to Guilin went quick enough with good roads all the way and some Chinese version of MTV playing on the bus complete with lyrics being ...
Bizarro Kaifeng
... by the English teacher because she also ran a restaurant, which we figured would be helpful since Lindsay was a vegetarian and in China, they consider pork to be a vegetable. Within minutes of calling the woman, we were shuffling behind Louis, her ...
Li River Cruise
This morning I took a 5 hour cruise on the Li River. The river is amazingly beautiful! All along the riverside are numerous mountains that just dart steeply straight up. They are unlike traditional mountains and ...
9 Dragons, 7 Stars, and a Moon
... least we caught them. The bus station in Longsheng was completely empty, which never seems to be a good thing in China. We got back to Guilin late and decided to get a good night's sleep so we'd be ready for our next adventure. (Travis's ...
Climbing the karsts
... to see a giant black mountain rise up right in front of me. Yep, we had made it to the right place. Guilin Flowers hostel is conveniently located right across the street from the train station. The door was even open and we sat in ...
Guilin
... There was a nice reflecting pool at the bottom but overall it wasnt so great. Anyway, the hostel here has a truly rare thing for China - a dog! He's cool(Taixin - Chinese for happy), but is weird in that he's like a midget Irish Setter. I dont care at ...
Natural disasters and interesting people
... ; Food thus far has been quite an experience. As you would guess each region is famous for certain dishes and specialities. For example Guilin is famous for its snake as well as wild cat, bamboo rat and snake-bile wine. So far we have avoided any nasty ...
Chilling In Gui'lin
... made roof tiles, cool scarecrows, small thin wooden boats on the many waterways.. its a joy to ride them. I arrived in Guilin and stated at the Flowers hostel that was conviently located right across from the train station, the place was nothing special ...
The day we didn't see the Elephant Rock
Erin had wanted to come back to Guilin to see one of the caves, but she chose sleep instead so we took it easy today. We wandered up to see if we could see the Elephant Rock from shore. The Elephant Rock is a famous formation that appears to ...
Refreshing Change
We then went to Yangshou with our Danish friends, which was in the most beautiful area and it was, awful to say, such a relief as it was so pretty and full of backpackers with menus in English, night markets and very small. We hired bikes and cycled ...
Guangxi Province
... anyone around, we managed to hitchhike a ride cramped in a pick-up truck down to the main road where buses from Longshan to Guilin pass often. That was just the cherry on top to our wonderful day walking five hours through the rice fields. The views are ...
Famous Longji Terraces
... Terraces, sometimes called the Dragon's Backbone rice terraces. The Longji Terraces are located in Longsheng County about 2 hours from Guilin (by express bus, 3 hours by local bus). The rice terraces are built into the hillsides and look like great ...
Guilin
... of Zhuang, Yao, Dong, Miao, Hui. Guilin is known for its dramatic Karst topography, the picturesque natural skyline of Guilin City, the limpid Li River, and the "global village" Yangshuo. At Longsheng County, Longji Terraced Rice Fields extends to as far ...
Cormorant fishing
Cormorant birds do fishing much better at night than day time With the order from fisherman, cormorants dive into water to find fish and catch them. When they succeed in getting any fish, they will proudly swim back to the raft and show off to the ...

