Gui Lin New Century Hotel Guilin

... pearls, glass, jade, tea, roasted duck, roasted pork, little candies, etc. <br><br>Crown Cave was on the Li River and was interesting because the Chinese like to spice up their cave tours. They use colorful lighting to make the formations more beautiful and then add all these weird forms of transportation. We took a golf cart to the entrance of the cave, walked (it's guided, but in Chinese), took a little train ...

... It is definately worth a stop. <br><br><br>I go to Wayao at least twice a month. I have been going there for over four years, so most of the dealers know me by name, and I no longer have to fight for prices. Many of the dealers visit other parts of China to purchase their wares, and will often call me in advance to see if there was anything special I wanted them to pick up for me. <br><br><br>Wayao can be reached by taking the number 28, 20, or 11 bus lines.

... buy an American dollar off us, and Phil had 2 left that he had not changed so he gave them to the kids. They were thrilled. They had an American English teacher they were excited to show them to. (I worry he may already be familiar with the currency and less excited.) <br><br>The train turned the lights off at 10 and we slept a good part of the way to Guilin. <br><br>The only real unpleasant part of the trip were the squat toilets. I dont like most squat toilets, but the ones on ...

... at the street then the cook goes out to sort it all out. Nothing wrong with that, it is fresh right. Everyone is getting lazy even the usually busy motorcycle taxi drivers were taking a nap. Along the river things were quite and peaceful. At night the fisherman still go out to get their catch with their trained birds. Have a few friends stop by the Juice bar and we talk. Everyone has ideas now about starting new businesses. Boby wants ...

... Jade to shoes, it is amazing how ingeneous they have become along the river, they see an opening and go for it. I have to say tha the daily life of the locals, washing and cooking is all on show as you meander by and is quite facinating. The cormorant fishermen really do exist, I have pictures to prove it and the people are charming and interested to meet you.Our 4 hour cruise takes us 56KM. We disembarked and returned to the University where we were lucky enough to ...

... ucenca. Goljufanje in prepisovanje je bilo tako resnicno povsem onemogoceno. V samem kompleksu nekdanjega mesta se je tudi mogoce povzpeti na 152 metrov visoko razgledno tocko, ki nudi izjemne razglede nad sodobnim mestom in krasko pokrajino. Med sprehajanjem po nekdanjih palacah in templjih se nic moc izogniti vsem kitajskim okraskom v tipicni rdeci barvi. Podobno zanimivo kot so ostanki starodavne Kitajske pa je tudi ulicnih utrip sodobne Kitajske. Zanimivo je videti ...

... accompaniment than a Chinese beat boxer... he stood up and did his thing, then looked at me and said, in possibly the most faux-hiphop tone I have EVER heard, "come 'ere, girl"... at which point I had to go up and sing to his (very out of time) beat... Ah well... got the free beer!! And there's a youtube vid out there somewhere for anyone that wants to see!! The next day, funnily enough, Tom and I weren't feeling all too chipper... so, having ...

... eat every 7th fish so they don't give up fishing entirely. After the boat ride we went to the Seven Stars Park where Bill Clinton a few years back had made a statement about the environment in front of Camel Hill. They had a great museum there with all sorts of fabulous rocks, fossils and gems, and the kids admired the fossilised dinosaur eggs and baby dinosaurs as well as trilobites. Michael bought ...

... boggling. Then the irrigation system they have with it, is very impressive. The have giant fields on the top that collect all the water, with small slits in it where the water can flow out of. The water flows down like a waterfall from level to level, filling each level on the way down. They also can block some slits if they need more water, or don't need any water in certain areas. Very manual, but very effective. The hike was a great way to ...

We left Hong Kong yesterday at 2:00PM (local) and have arrived some 17 hours later in beautiful Yongshuo, in the Guangxi province. The bus was very entertaining as it had beds - yes it really had beds in it. At lightening speed we raced across the new highway - which at times looked more like a video game... our bus driver would determine if he was bigger and faster ...