Park Guilin

... a lot more and ate lunch and eventually got to the top where it really is beautiful. The mountains look so pretty with all the sculpting for the paddies. <br><br>The next day we took a cruise down the Li river &#28435;&#27743; where the rocking of the boat made me fall asleep like a boss. Then we got to yangshuo where we had a lot of fun for the day! <br>Sweatiness and tiredness eventually led to these creepy photos. <br>

... Gross! We booked our tickets to Guilin, wasn't too much trouble and then headed to the bigger shopping area of Nanning. On the way we passed parks full of old men playing some kind of chess/draughts/mahjong type game. There'd be two guys playing with a big crowd of men around them. Lucy tried to take a picture of them and got caught rotten! Ha Ha. <br><br>We decided to try these moon cakes they all go mad for here and in Vietnam. Not sure if you're supposed to ...

... told the cashier that I was their teacher at Omeda Language School and I got a 20% discount. <br><br>Wednesday, September 16th: Raining, great and we agreed to move all the stuff out of the gal's mom&#8217;s house. We hired a couple of porters to move it but it was up to &#8220;us&#8221; to get it upstairs to the apartment. We decided to move it all to the apartment so we could sort through it. We did not realize how much stuff we bought. It ...

... are flying internationally all pilots must learn English. They took me to their apartment for dinner. Shaky's mom was living with them because Marina is pregnant once the baby comes then Marina's mom will live with them. Dinner was great. Got home late. Tomorrow they want to take me around Guilin. 05-16-09 RAINING It began raining last night and is just coming down more and more. My friends called and still wanted to take me out ...

... dus we hoopten dat ze op tijd zouden komen zodat we met zijn allen het aalschoolvissen konden kijken. Vage afspraken blijken in een dorp aan het einde van de wereld geen probleem. Al na enige seconden terug op het terras kwamen onze nieuwe nederlandse " vrienden" langs. We hebben dus gelijk 4 plekjes gereserveerd voor het aalscholvissen. Mijn gevoel over het aalscholvissen was nogal gemengd. Ik ben blij dat ik het gezien heb, maar vond het toch wel ...

... classmates there that will be meeting me at the airport and hosting me for the 9 day trip which is quite a relief since my Thai speaking ability consists of approximately 3 words! This past month back at school can easily be broken down into two distinctly different periods - the first several weeks I only had 6 90-minute classes per week and was going crazy with too much time outside of class, but then once elective classes started ...

... car, using an electric buggy to get around sub-urban parks, or buliding escalators on the outside of builidings for 20 steps there seems to be a big difference! so anyway there i was in the rice terraces, about to watch a performance by the local long haired girls, not yet married so not allowed to show off their hair. and the request for 2 english speaking guys to go on stage was announced, being 1 of only 2 english speaking guys i had to oblige and soon found myself in ...

... que se sentaron en la misma mesa con nosotros. Al finalizar el crucero llegamos a YangZhou, ahí nos quedamos por nuestra cuenta por que los del crucero a fuerzas nos querían vender otra visita pero no nos interesaba. YangZhou resulto totalmente turística pero muy agradable, nos tomamos una cerveza en un pequeño restaurante occidental, la calle principal era muy interesante. Despues de recorrer un poco el pueblo caminamos a la estación de bus para conseguir uno de regreso a ...

Hello Loved Ones! We know, we know - we are terribly late in our latest e-update of our adventures in China, and in being in touch via e-mail in general. In part that is due to a recent meltdown of our home PC which means we have to go elsewhere to check e-mail, etc. Erin is actually pretty upset about the timing of the CPU's fussiness, as she had intended to do some pretty major updates and photo uploads to our travelblog and Google photo albums ...

I'm afraid I don't have a lot to write home about when it comes to Guilin. Half a day is not enough to even scratch the surface of any city of any sort of significance and I hate to say I wish we had had the time to spend at least one evening here before moving on. Unfortunately, trying to traverse an entire country the size of China in just one month dictates than we will have to bypass multitudes of amazing places and ...