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Guilin Slideshow
Guilin
Travel Blogs from Guilin, China
a train journey
This is a spacial journey,with myself to discover the highlights of guizhou minorities,especially buyi,yao,miao and dong …… The beautiful scenery out of the window flys,and I am a lit nevers.Thince last 22 years I never travel alone to a new ...
Day 11
In the morning I travelled to Guilin, where I picked up the train to travel Guangzhou, then to Hong ...
The land of Noodles
... is known for it's beautiful landscapes- many of the paintings that you see were inspired by the mountains and river in Guilin. We watched a demonstration by a local artist on painting techniques that they use and he showed us how to paint bamboo with a ...
Clean Fabric for Your Butt-Ox
Underwear and Gun Fire (by Nadeige) Waking up in the morning in Saskatoon would involve, well, waking up for starters (always a struggle no matter what time it is). Walking, still half asleep, towards the bathroom to have a shower, chastising myself ...
Guilin update
... , and went to the hotel after meeting the tour guide. She recommended that we go on a night time boat tour of the lakes in Guilin, so we did. Dropped bags off and then walked to the city centre to have some food (which was very nice as we chose it, ...
Guilin
... , away from cities and tour groups. Our first stop was Guilin, a city of about 650,000 in southern China's Guangxi province. Guilin has always been renowned for its limestone karst hills, which rise sharply out of the otherwise flat rural landscape ...
Magnificent Guanxi/ Romantico Guanxi
... i wieje. Rozgrzewamy sie posilajac sie pieczonymi ziemniakami i kukurydza kupionymi od miejscowej kobiety. Udaje nam sie wrocic do Guilin poznym wieczorem. Nastepnego dnia krecimy sie troche po miescie - musimy zrobic zakupy - jakies cieple ubrania przed ...
Day 8 - River Boat Cruise Down the Li River
Today it's raining out. After a hearty (and amazing) hotel breakfast, we leave at 8:30am. Don't think we're getting back until at least 10pm.... it's gonna be a long day. We boarded a 4 hour cruise with the Gilligan's Island theme playing in ...
Touring Guilin and Long Sheng
... way of about 2600. The pictures included should provide some insight into the beauty of the area. We then drove back to Guilin where we went to Elephant Trunk Hill Park to see a mountain that resembles an elephant. The last stop before a ...
Day 8: Guilin
... journey with a standing ticket is like see Mooki's blog, the link of which I have provided below) we have finally made it to Guilin. Here it seems that most of the general population are kids. However, as ripe an opportunity as this may be, I might ...
Ahhh the Paddy Fields....
... ' what a better way to start that with a 6am wake-up call, six hour bus ride to Wuhan train station, overnight train ride to Guilin and a two hour bus ride to Yangshuo, which all added up to a 26 hour journey. While I remember I need to digress a moment ...
Mountain hike
... we each get plenty of attention from our teachers. Yesterday we toured Webgle, an up and coming software developer within Guilin. It was interesting but many came away from the lecture somewhat weary of the company's business practices. We all ...
Guilin, croisiere entre les pains de sucre
Arrivee en debut d'aprem a Guilin, mais on n'a pas vraiment le temps d'en profiter, juste laisser nos sacs dans une guest et repartir pour une ...
Guilin
May 13th, 2011 Visited Seven Stars Park. After seeing Yangshuo, Guilin wasn't as nice to see. I also got sick here... =( May 14th, 2011 Visited Elephant Trunk Hill ...
Plastic piping is not the same as bamboo
Day 25 - 17th October 2010 I arrived in Guilin at 5.15am after a very bumpy and bad nights sleep on the night bus. The driver for some reason wanted to travel at break neck speeds and so was overtaking traffic around blind corners etc... staying up ...
A lovely day in a town town
... . It was slightly bizarre to see how the city had grown in-between these immense steep stone peaks. We spent the evening in Guilin doing some reading and research on Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos. It was decision time and the decision was to head to Laos ...
Two's company, a billion's a crowd!
... was eating our five course meal that we slaved over in the evening light by the river - yum! The countryside and space that Guilin offered us this week ensured we survived the national holiday with our sanity still intact. It was a lovely insight to see ...
Yangshou - watercaves and moon hill
... We ended up at the caves though without being robbed. We got our helmets sandals (usually a bad idea to wear used footwear in China but we kinda looked like jackasses wearing socks with these sandals) and went into the cave by boat. While riding in a ...
2 Days in Guilin
... Nanning. Guilin today is a tidy tourist city, with about ten parks enclosing some fine peaks and limestone caves. Guilin means "Osmanthus Forest" and has an avenue of these sweet scented trees along the riverside Binjiang Lu. While in Guilin ...
An Awesome Scenic Day
... the typhoon further south. There are tons of boats on the river full of tourists. Tourism is the main industry in Guilin. There were several other areas on the river offering more private tours. It looked like more non-foreigner tourists were ...
Rice Fields of China
... =). We spent the next day exploring on our own. The bus system is quite straight forward. We went to the old imperial palace and the seven star mountains. Seriously, Guilin is really pretty it's such a shame that the city wrecks the scenary @ times. ...
Goodbye Hong Kong
... . She enjoyed it and went on multiple rides although we showed our age and didnt tolerate the rollercoasters. Next was flight to Guilin. Didnt arrive till after midnight but the Hotel is just lovely esp compared to the cupboard we were in. Its quiet here ...
WEEK (THIS IS WHEN I LOSS COUNT )
... Marina is a teacher I worked with 4 years ago in Yangshuo and her husband Shaky is a pilot for Southern China Airlines. They had asked me to Guilin to talk to some of the pilots to practice their oral English. Now that the airlines are flying ...
China
... other. Now I had to figure out what to do. 2 options; stay in Phinxchang or go back into China. A Chinese friend emailed and suggested me to go to Guilin and Yangzhou. Two tourist places not far from where I was. Next day I took the train to Nanning, ...
More (%$#@) Shopping then on to Wuhan
... Hut pizza back home. Not a real high bar to get over, but still. The painfull part was leaving sunny, mid-70's Guilin for rainy 50 degree Wuhan. Geographically not unlike coming back from Florida to Chicago this time of year. ...
Ping'an
Formen, Muster, Strukturen Überall trifft man auf Formen, Muster und Strukturen. Sofern sie im Design verwendet werden sind sie oft stilisiert und regelmäßig - Linien, Kreise, Quadrate, Kugeln, Zylinder, Rauten oder sie sind aus solchen Elementen ...
The people
The people and their daily life are very interesting. I have included some pictures here from the last several weeks from various ...
Guilin & Yangshuo!
... and have dinner on our own. Guilin was more bustling than I thought it would be. Fran explained to us that Guilin is like the Florida of China. It is a resort city where tourists go as well as Chinese people for holidays and honeymoons. The next morning, ...