Dongfang Hotel Liuzhou
No.218 Pingshan Avenue, Yufeng District Liuzhou, Guangxi Zhuang, China
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Goodbye Guilin and more train tales.
Guilin ---- Kunming.
After dragging ourselves out of bed it was time to pack [AGAIN!] to check out and ready ourselves for the next leg…we were leaving Guilin and the autonomous region of Guanxi and we were heading to the city of Kunming, the capital of Yunnan province and situated in the far south west of China.
No matter how many times I unpack and repack, I don't appear to get any better at it. In fact ...
Liuzhou
... that serve different food and pick stuff and they cook it for you and bring it to the table. The food was really good. After we went to Soho Bar which is a chain of nightclubs. You cannot order spirits by the glass so after a couple of beers we all split on a bottle of whiskey. As we were drinking away the place livened up and filled with locals. Very few people in this part of China speak English but ...
Sssssnake, Chinese Style
... roasted or stir-fried. Interesting how this principle of Eastern Medicine applies so strongly to the cuisine as well. My Cooking School in Yangshou (3rd on this trip!) was extremely informative in explaining these principles and allowing us to test them out ourselves. In traveling through the countryside, I witnessed not only the grueling labor that goes into rice cultivation but also got a first hand look into how rural families truly sustain themselves on the land. In ...
Last Day Traumas
... a group coming that would need the room. When we did take our bags down at a couple of minutes before noon there was nobody around to check us out anyway for a while. It seems Thomas had to go out at 11:30 and wanted to get us sorted out first. We were eventually checked out by one of the ladies of the family. No problems getting our key deposit back and they seemed quite pleased that we paid for the second lot of bike hire. (We could have argued that it was part of the ...
River Rats
... and Key West for the level of touristy-ness. Anyone who wants to see China and goes to Yangshuo is beautifully deceived. That's not to say it's not a fun place to stop. The scenery is gorgeous, the services were top-notch and we found happy hours at restaurants all over town. It's just not a Chinese city, that's all. At our one happy hour (which lasted several) we met some Canadians who had ...


