Kaining Seven Star Hotel Guilin

... they had tried it only on man-made indoor climbing walls. This one was much higher too. <br><br>They let the kids climb for "half-price", about $5/person and they said they could climb as much as they wanted. This ended up being about an hour (less for Henry), but must have been at least 7-8 climbs for the big boys. The guys belaying the boys commented that the Chinese coddled only-children kids usually only climbed once, so they were surprised that the ...

... br>After watching the traffic on the river, we climbed back down the mountain and went to the park's aviary. It is HUGE! It is filled with full grown trees and has a pond and a building which houses a stone museum. It is big. It is filled with many indigineous birds. The birds are not afraid of people, and if you buy a little cup of ground corn they practically attack you. I was covered with birds and an egret even sat on my head. My Mother was in hysterics. Luckily I had the camera ...

... we could see a small village on the other side. It was really amazing. After the hike we kept riding to the river where everyone goes swimming. On the way it started to storm so we stopped at a little restaurant and drank until the storm had passed. The river felt nice and cold but i was still skeptical about swimming in it so i decided to stay out. Bamboo boats covered the river, and you can pay someone to take you around on the boat for a while (reminds me of the ...

The next day, it was a mad rush to catch the train to Guilin. But this time we had a SLEEPER!!! :) Waah! I met some great children on the train who certainly were not shy about attempting to learn English from us. Yaing-a rambuncious 3-yr-old boy who seemed to enjoy practicing Kung Fu on the various adults on the train and Lai-a 6-yr-old girl who was determined to teach me how to use chopsticks properly and how to say 1 ...

... so sicer nadvse prijetni, a ce clovek pomisli kaksno politiko rojstev so v zadnjih letih sprejemali v tej drzavi potem ve, da se tukaj prebivalstvo stara se hitreje kot pri nas doma. Ce je imela povprecna druzina tukaj v 50 letih prejsnjega stoletja vsaj 8 ali vec otrok, jih ima danes le se enega, najvec dva. In v naslednjih 40 letih bo Kitajska zaradi tega imela na vsakega zaposlenega prebivalca vsaj 4 ali vec upokojencev. Kako se bodo spopadali s tem problemom bomo se videli.

... DOES THIS MEAN YOU MIGHT ASK? WELL IF YOU WERE TO ASK A FELLOW TRAVELER THEY MIGHT TELL YOU SIMPLY THAT THEIR NICE, TRUSTING NATURE HAS BEEN STOLEN AWAY FROM THEM. THAT THEY ARE NOW COLD AND DEFENSIVE WHEN IT COMES TO INTERACTING WITH CHINESE PEOPLE IN GENERAL. IT BREAKS MY HEART TO BE BROKEN BY CHINA AS THERE ARE SOME REALLY AMAZING AND FRIENDLY CHINESE INDIVIDUALS WHO LOVE TO HELP YOU JUST FOR THE SAKE OF HELPING YOU OR WHO WANT TO IMPROVE THEIR ENGLISH AND OFTEN TIMES ...

... We didn't get a tandem bike, but we did have a go on one, which was obviously loads of fun... haha... We finished up there and headed to the train station to go to Chengdu, which hit the news earlier in the year as it's very close to where the earthquake hit in May... This train wasn't quite as good as the first... I was in a bit of a mardy when we got on and when I found my bed (which was not in the same section as Tom's) it looked like it ...

... of course also the mountains of different forms on the horizon. Guilin area has been well-known for its karst landform. After some walks, coffee drinking and speciality tasting on Zhengyang street, the dinner was surely the rice noodle, the No.1 speciality in Guilin. D2: The most impressing day, I'd say. Could never forget the 4-hour mountain walking from the Pingan village to ...

... traditions of the people in this region, has hair that goes down to her ankles. I guess they get their hair cut once, when they are a teenager and then never again. They wrap it around their head, so it doesn't hang down. Then depending on how its wrapped you can determined if they are married and if they've had their first child. They also make loads of hand stitched goods, they are just beautiful. All and all, this is by far the best place I've seen so far.

... t find either. We were hungry so we went back to the restaurant where we witnessed the chicken slaughter a few days before. We had too much food but it was all pretty good. We made it back to the train station with plenty of time to spare. While waiting for our train, some people came and sat across from us. They had in their hands buckets of chicken from KFC. Unbelievable. Just our luck. The ...