Park Guilin

... Elle nous explique que Guilin veut dire Foret d'oliviers odorants (osmanthus) avec lequel ils font du parfum, du the, du vin etc. En effet, on peut clairement sentir cette douce odeur partout dans la region.

Nous visitons la Grotte de flute de pan (ou roseau); une immense grotte de 900 metres de profond remplies de stalactites et stalagmites geants ou les habitants de la region se sont caches pendant la guerre avec le Japon (1937 ...

... 1488;ת 97; אחד גאוני - אבוב. הבעיה היתה לקנות אבוב במקום שאף אחד לא מבין מה אני רוצה ממנו ...

... that lad a piece of my mind.
A few minutes went past and both young men got off the bus. Probably getting on the next one behind, doing their dirty business all over again.
What shocked me, was that not a soul (the bus was packed with people even sitting on small plastic stools in the aisles) did or said anything to the thief and everybody ignored the incident as though nothing had happened at all.

Guilin 桂林

... no clearly marked path
-meet up with local Yao ladies hiking through hills that lead us to Zhongliu village
-we go, we go, lunchy lunchy, mi fen, mi fen, c'est bon, c'est bon montra
-sketchy lunch at yao ladies house in Zhungliu
-she picked weeds and flowers that cooked up really good along with tarot and rice, was really good. we passed on the meat.. see pic
-on towards dazhai trying to find our way
-amazing scenery through here.. so many pics

... on not throwing up for like 5 minutes while laughing that I'm not going back in there again. We talked for a bit, and laughed about who was going to actually take a shower or go in there. I had to register for classes the next day, so I called my dad to do it for me since it would've been 5 in the morning my time. Well we went out for dinner at this nice little Chinese that seemed quite popular. We ordered and ate, and some European guys had to have Caroline translate ...

... tour groups aren't leaving, they're also staying over for sunrise... And then when it's dark and the moon romantically emerges, rows of neon lights illuminate the terraces. So disappointing. [cut to next day] So sunrise brings out the crowds and shouty tour guides, neither of which we're in the mood for as in our busy hotel the thin walls did little to silence a snorer... We break out from the viewpoint and head along the terrace path to another - the path is ...

... walked around the local shops for a while, ate in local restaurants and we sat in a packed coffee house while I cheered raucously at the English losing in the Olympic diving while the Chinese gave me odd looks. I shouldn't have cheered. Our scores for diving were humiliating! The end of our Guilin trip led to our cruise down the Lijiang river to Yangsho. This place was even more beautiful than Guilin if this was at all possible. Lois & David xx

... It was early evening and the main attraction, the Seven Star Cave, was closed, so I thought that might be the case. But after I climbed to some random peak and then continued on into the park, I discovered the main section. It was filled with people, and there were really cheesy statues all over. They reminded me of Pokemon and they really kind of ruined the scenery. Everyone else seemed to like them, though, and I saw plenty of people ...

... English subtitles?" "Yes, of course." Yes, of course. If in Guìlín they could have Willie Nelson CDs, then how could they possibly not have any DVDs of their own, probably the most famous, and arguably, the best actress? I settled for "2046", a Wong Kar Wai fantasy drama, and paying 13 yuan again I became the owner of my first DVD bought in China. Just out of curiosity, as this was a Chinese movie, I wondered if it too was another pirated product. Or was it an official rarity, after all?

... size of this place - kitchen and all. At the back of the eating section was a table filled with bowls of food. Mushrooms, bamboo shoots, garlic, beans, tomatoes, eggs, bacon, fish etc. All out in the open - not covered - not refrigerated. We had to look at the ingredients and decided what we wanted to eat. She would put in as many ingredients in our dishes as we wanted. We managed to stumble our way through the ordering of the food (she didn't speak and English) then went ...