8/14...Arrived in Guilin at 3pm. Guilin is home to beautiful landscapes (limestone hills covered in green and the Li River) and 640k locals. Michele, our local guide, picked us up a the airport and took us to the Sheraton. Long swim and lunch at the hotel pool, a few drinks in the Club Lounge and we met Michele again for an evening lake cruise (...
La fin est proche comme un prend un avion ce soir pour retourner a Shanghai et demain tot on part pour Bangkok! Ca fait un bout qu'on n'a pas donne de nouvelles... bonne nouvelle, on a ete capable de mettre des photos dans nos entrees precedentes de la Chine. Alors que s'est-il passe dans ce pays ou McDo et PFK se retrouvent en grand nombre et o...
Today we leave to Guilin. We're both feeling better, though I did cough up a lung this morning, so I'm not feeling too hot in the stomach area now. Its amazing how coughing can make you nauseous if you do it enough. After a liquid breakfast, we checked out of Sim's guesthouse and hopped in our paid ride to the airport. The security in Chengdu wa...
We did a two day hike from Ping An Rice Terraces to Dazai. First we had to get a bus from Yangshuo to Guiling then another 4 hour bus to Longshen from there another local 1 hour bus to Ping An. Ping An is a small wooden mountain village which is situated in a national park. You have to pay 50 RMB entrance fee at the bottom of the hill. The gates...
After 24 hours we arrive in Guiling. The train ride was a blast. I took the hard sleeper which means I shared a little area with about 6 Chinese people. I quickly made friends with them, they were so generous offering their food and drinks to me. One particularly interesting snack they gave me was a mystery meat wrapped in a tube. ymmmmmmm. It w...
The overnight bus from the border at Shenzen was definitely not made with normal sized people in mind, the bed was a stretcher type affair with your feet going into a box at the end, along with any belongings you didn't wish to put at risk underneath the bus. I'm not joking you would have to be about 5 foot ****all to be able to stretch out and ...
Good breakfast - good service. Left hotel at 08.30h for Li River. Had about a half-hour drive to the wharf where about 30 nearly identical boats were waiting. We were hustled onto one and given a place to sit downstairs. Soon, three Spanish people (also traveling alone with a guide) sat across from us. We did not speak. The boat then filled with...
