Li Jing Hotel Guilin

... making our way to one of the adjacent, smaller villages, called Zhonglu. All in all, the Terraces were the most successful part of the trip.<br><br>Yesterday was spent in transit - two buses and a 15 hour overnight train back to Wuhan. The tickets for the train were paid for in advance yet ridiculously difficult to attain. When we got to Guilin we were to phone a non-English speaking Chinese lady, who then called one of our ...

... in the world (doubtful!).<br><br>It's late enough here in Guilin now and most of the main sights to see are nature type things like caves or mountains so we'll have to leave it until tomorrow. We skipped our way into a restaurant a while ago, confidently armed with our new knowledge and ordered chicken and noodles. The chicken was tasty but so full of bones that I commented several times that it's like they just chopped up the whole chicken and threw it ...

... english is free. On the bright side, once this is done, the vietnamese bit of crossing is done! We walked out of the building and onto a little yellow electric golf cart which drove us onwards to the chinese border.<br>We had to ask for an english immigration form but once we had filled this in and passed through an infrared pig flu fever checker (very high tech!), it was relatively straightforward to pass through customs ...

... It was about 7:30 now. Have to get up early in the morning to teach. 05-18-09 RAINING My friend Marina called she was in the lobby. The Southern China Airlines has its office and housing about 3 blocks from the hotel. In fact the last time I stayed in Guilin I stayed across the street at a hotel that is part of the airlines. It is now being remodeled. First we went to her office where she explained to me what I was going to do ...

... body president senior year, and the fraternity brother, Andy Nunemaker, graduated from Valpo in 1989 and went on to graduate from Harvard Business School then go up the ranks at GE before "settling down" as the CEO of a growing healthcare software company out of Milwaukee called EMSystems. The other pictures in this entry are from a class field trip to a genuine farmers' market that's been around for hundreds of years. The ...

... bila navdusena nad popolnoma novimi avtocestami po kakrsnih se nisva vozila ze vse od doma. Ob prihodu v prvo vecje mesto Nanning sva pa dokoncno dojela, da je Kitajska resnicno v polnem teku razvoja in toliko novogradenj je verjetno mogoce zaslediti redkokje na svetu. Samo v okolici vesoljske avtobusne postaje s prostorom za kaksnih 300 avtobusov v vec nadstropjih bi lahko nastela vec 100 (verjetno vec kot 300) gradbisc razlicnih ogromnih poslopij. Neverjetno je da se ...

... town to go shopping) and then spent at least 2 hours looking for and failing to find an internet cafe... Giving directions is not a strong skill set amongst Chinese hostel workers... we asked three different employees, got three very different answers, all of which were incorrect... le sigh... The next day we went and did what Xi'An is famous for... we visited the Teracotta Warriors... This is a display of thousands of life-size teracotta ...

... Peak of Solitary Beauty. The landscape around Guilin is filled with these beautiful limestone karsts and this one is in the centre of the town. After simply climbing 300 steep steps up it one is left with a spectacular view over the town, but the climb itself is very rewarding, although in the sticky heat it was hard work. From there we went to Ludiyan or Reed Flute Cave, an enormous and stunningly ...

... a rush. The bus ride up here was so much fun though. The first two buses we took were modern air conditioned buses, but even still there was a live duck on one of them. Then the last bus we took was a true local bus, no air con and if you weren't careful you could fall out of the window it was so big. This bus was carrying all the people back with their supplies for the day. It was such a neat mix of products. There were eggs, live chickens and ducks ...

... That seemed to work and they finally left us alone. When we got to the top it was still a stunning view and green as always but the city has grown a lot and the top where I had my photo last time is ringed by signs and a metal fence. The top is crowded with tourists from around the world and lots of Chinese tourists too. Chinese tourism is booming. The City dwellers are loaded with cash and can not get visas to go outside China so ...