Airline Grand Guilin

... were created by water erosion. When spent about 4 days in Guilin, which, minus the heat, was really nice. Although for anyone planning to travel there, I would recommend staying in the nearby town of yangshuo &#38451;&#26388; instead. Guilin city itself was pretty touristy. <br><br>The first day Ben and I climbed one of those tall pointy mountains located in the middle of the city in a park. There was also a cave with ...

... resulto ser pollo con miel) y vegetales (cebolla, patata, lechuga, zanahoria... todo mezclado). La comida resulto ser toda frita y aceitosa. No nos gusto mucho. Aun asi, nos cobraron 40 yuan por el plato de pollo, que acabo comiendose el perro.<br> <br>Nos fuimos a dormir prontito, para estar descansadas para el dia siguiente.

<br><br>Monday, September 14th: One of the headmasters from a local school stopped in and is still trying to convince me to co-operate with him. He plans to open another school in a nearby town. I had to decline; I really do not want to get anymore on my plate.<br><br>Dawn has found a place that has little gift items for sale and she has been buying a few each day for the shop I think tomorrow I will have to go and see what all it there.<br><br ...

... tell and it was enjoyable to hear all the different adventures he has had so far.  Yesterday I did two hikes. The first was a hike to the top of Lao Zhai Mt. which overlooks Xingping, the Li River, and the surrounding countryside. The stairs up the mountain climbed pretty fast and it was not the most leisure hike I have been on, but definitely worth it in the end. The views were incredible. The second hike, a slightly longer one ...

... all the taxi drivers and their partners tried to get me to use their cab. The first one said come take my cab very clean when I went over he turned me over to a driver I told him where I was going. At first I could tell it was most likely too short of a fare so he first said no to his partner. Then they came up with a price of 40 Yuan and I just walked away and said to expensive. The next one the same routine but this time 30 Yuan ...

... immediately glad we did. A welcome change from the big cities, Yangshuo has more of a small town feel (well, for China anyway) and the countryside and rice paddies surround the town. After one evening, I think Morgan would agree that its one our favorite hostels we've stayed at so far. Wei, along with his family that owns the place, cooks all 3 meals included in the (inexpensive) price if you want them and our first meal ...

... great views of the city. Unfortunately the weather was a little foggy and the pictures we got don't do it justice. After all this we still had a couple hours to kill so we did this in our favourite way ... having a couple beers on a patio and playing some cards. Our flight to Hong Kong was uneventful, which is good. We caught a hotel shuttle bus into town and as luck would have it our hotel was the last stop (meaning it took over an hour to get there) ... now we sleep!

... and would be able to meet us in Nanning on the next bus in a couple of hours. Sure enough, a couple hours later he cam walking into the train station to everyone's relief. Chinese people do not speak English. In the small town of Nanning (1.3 million) I asked dozens of people where to find an ATM, but no one knew what an ATM is. Finally, Alban copied the Chinese characters for ATM and our hostel address onto a piece of paper and we ...

... you missed if you never went. Even just keeping the Blog up to date becomes a challenging task as so much has happened in such a short space of time with very little free time to sit and reflect. We often find ourselves forgetting so much even though it only happened a few days ago, a case of information overload. Fortunately we have the photographs to jog our memories but the personal thoughts are often forgotten. The one thing the Blog does allow us to do is ...