Jin Long Hotel Guilin

... the grace of a beached manatee in it's final death throes, I couldn't help but chuckle at how cramped and tight it was. I wondered if this is what it must feel like to sleep in an aircraft overhead luggage locker. As I sat on my bed I had to lean forward because the ceiling was so low. The bedding was slightly damp from the air-conditioning but very clean and comfortable none the less.


Compared with the 'soft bed ...

... river crossing.....we didn't get very far. In fact, I never even left the bank. To get on to the under water cobbled bit, you have to walk down a few steps. Bearing in mind the heat that day, I recommended that we take our flip flops off when we were at the bottom of the steps so we could dip straight in to the cool water without burning our feet on the steps. However, in typical Nigel style, before I had even finished my sentence, flip flops ...

... taken loads of paracetamol a couple of hours beforehand, and she got the all clear with a temperature of 36.7!! A couple of Dutch guys weren't so lucky, as they put on their forms they had coughs and a headache, and were swiftly taken off the train, and quarantined. We felt sorry for them when we saw them in the quarantine room waving at us whilst the train moved out of the station!!!

... 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 ...

... van "marktvlucht" milkshakes gedronken op een terras. Maar eerlijk is eerlijk: in Nederland zou ik ook wel eens zoveel aandacht willen krijgen. Wat niet gaat vervelen? Het weer en het "op vakantie zijn" . Het is nog steeds 30 graden en hoewel er regen voorspeld was hebben wij niet meer dan 2 druppels gevoeld. De zon schijnt overigens niet. Het " op vakantie zijn" in de zin van "niets hoeven" blijft ook heerlijk. Ik ben een natuurtalent in het leiden van een "nutteloos leven" blijkbaar.

... we chat each evening. Sometimes other "foreigners" join us. Took the bus to Guilin. It was exciting for only about $2.00 you get a two hour bus ride and thrill ride combined. Two lane traffic and they used the lane with the least traffic. Did not matter it was towards on coming traffic. One of the reasons for the trip was that it was my friend Marina's birthday party. She had ...

Hello everyone Welcome to our China Trip part 7: Guilin. Everyone told us: go to Guilin, it's beautiful, stunning etc etc. They weren't wrong. When we arrived, we were met by our guide, Eddie and Mr Wong the driver (who looked like a Chinese Tom Cruise in Top Gun with mirrored shades on!). Guilin was absolutely stunning. A small quiet (compared to Shanghai) City surrounded by an array of small mountains that were smoky blue in the distance. Rice ...

... colored lights, the cave looks like a dazzling palace that's why the cave is otherwise known as the " Art Palace of the Nature". Inside the cave there are more than 70 ...

... caves in the world, going up to above thirty millions in aggregate since the economic transformation has been carried out it China. Well, I guess there must be something to it, after all. Why else would more than sixty heads of state so far have bothered to go down if it were not worth it? The cave got its name after the reeds growing outside. Their growth was allegedly once so lush that they masked the entrance into the cave altogether. Nowadays there are vendors at the mouth of the ...

... of Records as the longest man-made waterfall in the world. (45 metres high, 72 metres wide at the top and 75 metres wide at the bottom. They also had loud music playing at the same time. After we saw the waterfall we walked back to our hotel via a bakery and two 2 yuan shops. From Kate The sights you see just walking along the streets are amazing. We saw a man who was, very slowly, riding a bike towing an elderly man. The elderly man just sat there looking at the sidewalk ...