This morning I took a 5 hour cruise on the Li River. The river is amazingly beautiful! All along the riverside are numerous mountains that just dart steeply straight up. They are unlike traditional mountains and instead are narrow, sttep and lush with green and vegetation. Originaing in Cat Mountain in Xin'an county northeast of Guilin, the Li R...

Back to Guilin for a few hours in order to catch the night train to Wuhan.

9-5-07 Guilin We left Xi'an at 8 am and got to Guilin at 9 45 am. Guilin is much smaller than Beijing and Xi'an and therefore makes it a nice change of pace. Beijing is a pulsating city in itself, things are always going on people are always on the move and you never have more than 20 ft of personal space. Xi'an had a very rich history it played...

Well, thanks to (Paul's - I blame him!) frugalness and refusing to pay a guy 70y commision on a train ticket we got the Hard seat to Guilin because it was the only option left (then on to bus to Yanshou). This turned out to be the most uncomfortable godforsaken journey I think we have ever done. 14 hours of pretty much sitting bolt upright like ...

Arrived at Guiling by bus, some time on Tuesday afternoon. After several cups of the best coffee that I had drunk in a long time, Wendy and I found some suitable accommodation, the plan being to head away again the next day, albeit in different directions. On the Wednesday morning, we both headed down to the train station where there were also a...

So we got into Guilin without much problems. I think the train was a little late but that I expected. They actually had a tourist information office at the station where David helped us find a cheap place to stay in town, it was 80 RMB per person which I guess wasn't bad considerin the lonely planet said it would be tough to find anything below ...

2004.11.14 (日) ☂ We arrived at Guilin (桂林) at around 10:30pm. When we booked our hotel room from Hong Kong, we were told that someone would pick us up from the airport. We waited for a while, but no one showed up, so we took the airport bus to CACC building. When we arrived, the conductor on the bus recommended us to g...