Osmanthus Guilin

... ethnic minority by doing things like picking up the girls hair and taking a picture like it was their own after the ceremony, or rushing up during the ceremony and snapping a quick picture while they were dancing, all teh while not speaking to the people. They also took pictures with me and Ben since we are weird too. <br>After that though, we drove up a little further on the mountain to see the rice paddies. We ...

... kept pointing to the Chinese writing on the sign and when we didn't understand she'd point to it slower again. It was so funny. We just had no clue!! <br><br>The food was good. We're pretty sure we had duck and pork but there was an odd looking thing in there which we think may be dog! I was warning Lucy against the dog but I don't think she really believed me until we went to a restaurant later and dog was on the menu! Stir-fried dog with chilli sauce ...

... be gone, this was the only time to do it. Although I got a picture of the sign out side the restaurant window, we got so involved talking that I did not even have a chance to take my traditional "here is what I eat picture". The food was great. We ate at the &#8220;Dragon restaurant&#8221;. It is over the 99 supermarket. We had a private room and there 10 of us. The complete dinner cost me about $20.00. It would have been more but one of the ...

... not find the Internet connection. They came and hooked me up. Just as they were leaving I got another call this time from my friends, Marina and Shaky (yes Shaky) they do get creative with their English names. Marina is a teacher I worked with 4 years ago in Yangshuo and her husband Shaky is a pilot for Southern China Airlines. They had asked me to Guilin to talk to some of the pilots to practice their oral English. Now that the ...

... het aalschoolvissen te gaan bekijken. (Bij Aalscholvissen gaat een visser erop uit met zijn watervogels. Deze vangen voor hem de vis. Hij heeft de beesten een touwtje om hun nek gedaan waardoor ze de gevangen vissen niet zelf op kunnen eten. De vogels worden binnengehaald in het bootje en moeten de vis uit hun bekken afgeven aan de visser.). We hadden pas om 19.00 uur met onze nieuwe Nederlandse "vrienden" afgesproken en we hadden geen telefoonnummer ...

... the services of men to carry them up the slopes like some sort of adonis! (its a tough job and the charge by the kilo!) that is one funny thing about the chinese, is that the poor and mostly the elderly seem to be fit, even super fit at times yet the slightly younger chinese who have chance to enjoy the recent changes in China seem to be the complete opposite and jump at the chance to save energy. wheethr its driving right up to the front door of a club and parking ...

... frecuente. El hotel era precioso a orillas del rio Li y cerca de todos los puntos de interés. Al dia siguiente nos recogieron en el hotel a las 8am y salimos para el rio Li. El recorrido fue como de 4 horas y media por el rio, las vistas son increíbles, lastima que el dia no estuvo nada soleado pero igual pudimos disfrutar del paseo. El almuerzo en el barco resulto totalmente chino y no muy rico, pero bueno ahí le hicimos a la comida. Durante el crucero conocimos a dos espa ...

... city of Guilin, it would definitely be worth your time to look it up on Google images. The scenery around here is something incredible, I never thought this kind of land existed. We'll try and explore it in the morning. In the meantime, we have found ourselves a quaint hostel in town where we will spend a comfortable night. Why do they make their sidewalks out of smooth marble where it rains? There have been a lot of close-calls...

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