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Guilin Slideshow
Guilin
Travel Blogs from Guilin, China
Li River and Yangshuo
... is an artist town, and the surrounding area is popular with backpackers who come for the scenery and bargain accomodations. Guilin's scenery is legendary and very picturesque- the only thing marring the limestone formations and cave views are the throngs ...
Making friends!
... for numbers I mentioned in the last post, though nobody could remember what 7 was so they can't be that bloody popular! Arrived in Guilin after 6 hours on the train (which flew with all the entertainment) and poor old Zhong Ling was spotted with us by an ...
Neon
... - the path is much nicer and we get up close to the terraces. Cue another hectic day of travelling involving bus back to Guilin (met really nice english couple, the guy from which used to go out with my classmate from school!), then an overnight train ...
Konečně jsem získal na Číňany
... , but it´s very expensive 90Y. You can try ship on the river too, but it´s no good. We used train conection between Guilin and Kunmming. Poznatky: Cesta ve vlaku pro nás silnej poznatek, pro místní hrozná atrakce. Kluci nas vyzvedli rano s tim, ze ...
GuiLin
Guilin felt much warmer after JiuZhaiGou and Huanglong. The place is famous for the Li River and its weird pointy mountains that look like they came straight out of Dragon Ball Z. You can enjoy the landscape by riding one of the many bamboo rafts, hike or ...
Entering China: Shenzhen and the Li River valley
... showing us the massive extent of the city and the busy port (apparently the busiest in China, followed by Shanghai). Next stop via overnight train was Guilin, located in vast karst landscapes along th Li river and mekka for Chinese and international ...
Karstiges am Li-Fluß
Zwei Flüge mit Zwischenstop in Chongqing bringen mich mit einigen Luftlöchern (Hui!!) aber ansonsten ohne Probleme zum Flughafen von Guilin. Als Reiselektüre dient mir Aldous Huxleys Klassiker "Brave new world" - 1932 erschienen, aber von zum Teil ...
Limestone pinnacles
Guilin, June 1 Miles travelled: 78604 Guilin is one of the most scenic areas of China, its misty limestone mountains the inspiration for thousands of traditional paintings over the centuries. Because of the peculiar (karst) geography of the area, ...
-= Pause =-
I was in Yangshou for around 25 days and wasn't really in "travelling mode". My time was spent hanging around mostly with Dave, but also with Alex, Angel, Tanny, Heather (Sunshine), Chris, Jones, Hung, Amanda, Baby Panda, Frank, Ronny (From Xinjiang) ...
guilin longsheng yangshuo
arrivee a guilin . depart immediat pour 3, 4 heures de voiture, puis 2 heures pour longsheng nous allons nous balader et dormir dans la montagne dans les rizieres de l epine dorsale du dragon... nous dormons chez l habitant .. jeudi depart pour 6 heures ...
Guilin's Imperial Palace
... been there many times in the past four years. It is a beautiful place. Although lacking in the splendor of Beijing's Forbidden City, Guilin's Prince's Palace is still a lot of fun to visit. I like to go there early in the morning when the elderly can be ...
La campagne chinoise
Bonjour, Me voici rendu dans la campagne chinoise. Nous avons pris de train de nuit a partir de la frontiere chinoise. J'ai relativement bien dormi considerant que nous etions 6 dans un compartiment et qu'il n'y avait pas de porte. Donc, nous ...
Chinese Health Check
What a bizarre experience....we all headed off to Guilin this morning for our Chinese health check to get our Residents Permit (currently we are foreign aliens!!). I've been a RN for nearly 30 years and never have I experienced such an examination. We ...
Guilin - Not worth the space
... What a waste of space this town is. We had been assured that Chinese people gaze in rapture when you mention Guilin; surrounded by Karst limestone peaks and the Li river running through it - the subject of innumerable classical paintings from ...
Li Jiang cruise, April 19, 2006 - Wednesday
... Nor do they purchase CDs for 13 yuan apiece. Likewise, local people don't make big and fast money with little effort here. This was a China which - something was telling me - won't be showed off to the world during the Olympic Games in two years. If I had ...
Continued travels
We arrived in Guilin abot 3 hours before we were expecting to. We knew we did not want to stay in this touristy and expensive town, but originally we were going ot head south to Yangshou, only an hour away. Now with all this extra time we decide to head ...
Village Life - Longji Terraces
... the windows the clouds came in..... really honest. The odd thig was that even at 3000 feet above sea level, in the middle of China Mac got wi-fi.... more than he has managed so far in Hong Kong, so much for progress eh! The locals put on ...
A smashing time in Guilin
... we couldn't go without attempting it. I'll let Alison finish the story becomes it still gives me nightmares.... Alison: Guilin wasn't the small quaint place that I thought it would be but still some beautiful scenery can be seen if you ...
Rocks and Robbers
Our journey from Macau started with a bus ride over the border to Guangzhou before catching a night train to Guilin. Unfortunately during our bus journey, Amy had 2 mobile phones and an MP3 player swiped from her bag. We found the bag wedged ...
Guilin
... and checked into the "Flowers International hostel". I'm not really sure what I was expecting from Guilin after 23 hours of rural China flashing past my window but I am delighted to say that Guilin is a beautiful little place, filled with ...
Exploring Rural China in Guangxi Region
We arrived in Guilin in China's southern Guangxi Autonomous Region around 3pm on Saturday afternoon, October 23th. Although we had informed our travel agency that we did not need a guide for this leg of our tour, a destination known for its minority ...
Trains, planes and caves
... there is a completed rail line between China proper and Tibet. But alas, I failed on this mission as I took a China Air flight from Shanghai to Guilin. It did save me a 23-hour train trip, but that's a wimp traveler talking. I suppose the one ...
Text us if u can
Lucy 0086 13077749713 Adele - 0086 15296377600 these are our new numbers!cant figure out the texting so if you text us we'll try to reply. ...
In Guilin for a day
... another bus and traveled back to Yangshuo. I was a bit tired from the trip but it was my only chance to see anything in Guilin. Now I have the ticket in hand and will board the bus again this Friday evening to catch the train. I have a few other trains ...
Guilin e Yangshuo
... ; A população da China, sendo seu maior recurso, é também seu maior desafio. Após o dia em Guilin partimos pra Yangshuo, um divisor de águas na viagem; o visual desta pequena cidade encravada entre os rios Yulong e Li é ...
Gorgeous Guilin
... very nice girl with pretty good English. She first took us to Duxiu Feng - the Peak of Solitary Beauty. The landscape around Guilin is filled with these beautiful limestone karsts and this one is in the centre of the town. After simply climbing 300 steep ...
Kalt
Eigentlich ein Stopover auf dem Weg nach Jannghshou aber auch schön. Am Bahnhof hab ich zwei Chinesen getroffen die das erste mal mit einem Rucksack unterwegs waren. Es war früh am Morgen und wir wollten ins gleiche Hostel also haben wir uns ...
