Guilin China Travel Service Hotel

... encouraged us to pick **** up and stick our heads in random rooms. Then we went to a performance put on by the Yao girls, who are famous for keeping their hair very long. They showed us a marriage ceremony and chose Ben and a few other men to participate. They took him in the back to change into marriage clothes and forced him to buy a present for his new "wife". all the chinese people got up to take pictures with the ...

... pero tiene bar, mesa de billar e Internet!!!<br><br>Me gusto la caminata de hoy. Nos hizo sol, pero no mucha calor, los paisajes eran geniales, el pueblecito era acogedor, sin muchos turistas, y la gente era muy agradable y abierta a hablar (y regatear) contigo, incluso sin hablar ingles. <br><br>Vimos a un par de espanoles comiendo con una chica china que hablaba castellano. Esta bien eso!

... that she was going to open a shop here but it did not work out and she had a house full of stuff and her mom wanted to get rid of it. So we asked if we could see. Maybe we could buy a few more things for the Juice Bar. Well we bought it all!!!!!!!!!<br><br>Before open talk tonight I invited a few of the students out to dinner with me. They had been here for 6 months or more and would be going back to their work in the next week. Since I was going ...

... At first they could not find me in the reservations. I took out my passport and they could see the spelling of my name and said oh yes here you are. The hotel is very nice and the rooms are big with all the amenities. So just as I was settling in I got a call from the lobby. They were sending someone up to get my passport. In all the confusion at the desk they forgot to record it. It was good because I had just searched the room and ...

... ernaartoe boeide me vanmiddag dan ook niet bijzonder veel ('s avonds is dit toch anders ;-)) Na wat drankjes en broodje op het terras van de hostel (nog niet genoeg van de zon na de boottocht blijkbaar) vertrokken we rond vieren terug naar het bewoonde terrein van Yangshou-City. Prachtig zo'n dorp en heerlijk om zoveel terrassen te mogen proberen. Even langs het toeristenbureau en wat bleek? Voor vanavond om 19.30 uur was er nog plek op een bootje ...

Well, I've been back in Guilin about a month and a half, and finally back in a routine. The weather's been off and on- around 80 when I arrived on Feb 12 down to below freezing a couple weeks later, lately been around 70 but headed back down again. Fortunately, I'm headed to Thailand tomorrow, where the temperature is 90ish every day- had been planning a trip there for a long time and finally got the details worked out. I have ...

... both the li river karsk mountains south and the rice terraces north, besdies the various lakes and rock formations within the city. so first stop was to see the rice terraces, home to the Longsheng people where long hair and bum pinching seems to be all the rage with the women!....actually its tradition which made it even more of a contrast to the rest of China. the rice terraces were a beautiful site to behold despite the expected mass of chinese tourists, some who ...

... sights I'd dreamed of for quite a long time. The most beauitful landscape in the world. As the first ones appeared, rising out the horizon, one of those big stupid smiles that peaks for itself spread across my face. Dao le. I had arrived. There's a Chinese idiom - Getting to the place it/ you belong - De qi suo zai. That felt accurate. This is a new leg in my journey, and will require new willpower, new drive to experience and new lesson plans.

... story. We found a restaurant that looked like it may have delicious noodles. The only menu, though, was in Chinese, with numbers for prices. We just randomly pointed at the different numbers and waited to see what our food was going to be. My bowl turned out to be egg and noodles, and it was very delicious, Phil got some sort of chow mein, and Alban ended up with some sort of white meat that wasn't chicken. We are now in the ...

... things are going which we usually answer individually. As the continuous support and feedback carries us emotionally through this trip, we though could be fun if we got a few questions from Blog readers on what you've always wondered about our trip that both Inge-Marie and I will answer independently and publish on the Blog (time to kill on the Trans-Siberian). E.g. what has been your best / worst / funniest / most frustrating memory, destination etc...or any ...