Hong Kong Hotel Guilin

... lead to the top. My Mother and I climbed the hill to enjoy the view. Halfway up the hill is a small pavilion which looks over the surounding neighborhoods. The weather was really hot, but there was a very nice breeze there so we sat for a while and cooled down. We then continued our climb to the top of the hill. From the pavilion on top of the hill we got a spectacular view of Guilin City and the Li River. The day was very ...

... they would build a massive wall around it, erect a Disney-theme-park-entrance and charge £50GBP per person. If China thinks something is even slightly of interest, they will call it by a fancy name then whack a toll booth and entrance fee on it. Our money is running out!<br><br>We walked through some of the outskirts of town, which were uneventful. Past the theatre, which is the ugliest theatre you have ever seen, it looks like a multi-storey car park. Then spent the rest ...

We arrived in Nanning at 6:30 am. We headed into the station and purchased train tickets for 130 yuan ($16) for Guilin (Quay lin). We will be departing at 8:18 am. We had something to eat at the cafeteria. Bill bought some mini-buns with pork. He ate two and I ate the rest. Bill had the orange drink, I passed. While he was getting the meal a table of five guys were openly staring at me. I have not seen any other Caucasians since we left the train. Bill wandered the streets ...

... Next day took Chinese boat trip on the Li... River through fantastic karst hills. Drizzly and raw but worthwhile for scenery. On boat met Chris a young German Mechanical Engineer doing an internship in Dalian. Lunch on board boat included snails and fried scorpion. Latter crunchy - a good drinking snack.

... JUST AMAZED AT HOW SOMEONE CAN RUN A TRAVEL AGENCY AND TOTALLY SCAM YOU LIKE THAT. SO FOR THE REST OF THE DAY WE STUCK TO THE PUBLIC TRANSPORT. ONE GUY EVEN TRIED TO GET US TO PAY HIM Y100 TO GET US FROM PING'AN TO LONG SHEN, WHEN THE PUBLIC BUS IS Y7, THEY ALL THINK WE ARE EITHER INCREDIBLY STUPID OR RIDICULOSLY NIAVE. SO THE NEXY DAY IN GUILIN WE DECIDE TO WALK AROUND THE CITY AND KASEY AND I START JOKING ABOUT HOW WE ARE JUST GOING TO GIVE THE AGGRESSIVE PEOPLE ...

... The next day we returned to Guilin and got an overnight sleeper bus to Shenzhen - that's right, sleeper BUS... that has got to be one of the worst night's sleep I've EVER had... I was rolling from side to side constantly - my bed was a top bunk in the middle of the bus... I woke up at one point to find that we seemed to be going through a field... or perhaps we took a shortcut through the woods... whatever it was, it was so bumpy I nearly ...

... instantly engulfed by the villagers trying to sell us some sort of local craft, picture, or offering to carry our luggage up to the top for us. There were also many people that were trying and entice us into staying at their hotel. Many of the villagers have found that with the opening of the road and increase tourist activity that hotel management and restaurant services can be very good. So, many have converted their homes into a kind of bed and breakfast type ...

... went up from the ground and back down, if that makes sense. Check out the pictures though, because it really looks amazing. Highlights from the cruise *There were about 8 young boys on 4 different rafts that attached themselves to our boat and tried to sell all of the tourists souvenirs. I think the only English word they knew was "Hello!" *During lunch I tried a dish that I thought was chicken. After eating a bite, I knew it wasn't chicken but I ...

Almost as soon as we boarded the bus and got started, I fell asleep. But that was no wonder. Right from the moment I had arrived, entirely neglecting jet lag, I had been speeding at hundred kilometres per hour. The pace I had imposed on myself was exceptionally taxing, all according to the principle that there was little time, that one didn't go to China every day, and that I had to make the most of it. So now in the bus, when there was really nothing else to do, when you couldn't look ...

... s worth. The farther north we go, though, the more we&#8217;re into Mandarin country, as if I could tell the difference by listening. Guilin IS a tourist destination of some note, at least, so language is not as much of a problem as it was in Nanning. The city itself is OK, pleasant enough, but the real attraction is the Li River and the surrounding karst limestone formations and landscape, kind ...