Shan Hu Hotel Guilin

... continued to try. I think they gave us the cheap rate thinking that our boys would only climb once, not that they would be tied up for an hour. But they didn’t seem to mind and liked that the kids had courage to keep trying and could make it to the top. We had a lot of comments on this trip where people said they thought foreign kids were more independent. They said that since Chinese kids are all only children, the parents wind up doing too much for them.

... so there are no photos of the incident. <br><br><br>After the aviary we climbed another peak. This peak has a cave going right through it. It is called wooden Dragon Cave. It overlooks another park. It offered more great views of Guilin. <br><br><br>Diecai Park is so beautiful. It is not as visited as the other hill parks of Guilin and so is very peaceful. It is covered with foliage and it extremely beautiful. I highly recommend this park to visitors to Guilin with some extra time to kill.

... in the Venitian hotel...but in china with bamboo and a china man). After all of this, we headed back to our hotel and got ready for the night. The teachers who were already there showed us how to get into town. The ride there was absolutely crazy!! They dont understand what road rules are here...its every man for himself, and i did not feel too safe on my bicycle. Definitely an adventurous ride into town. Everyone is constantly honking when they come up behind ...

... properly (she's prob destined to be a teacher herself) and a rather random young 4-year old girl who always had a cob of corn in her hand or plum tomatoes in her mouth and who seemed just satisfied to want to sit quietly next to me and watch Carlin and I. This certainly made the 23-hr journey seem shorter and not as long as the last one! We arrived in Guilin on the 28th, and spend the next day sleeping in and then ...

We arrived in Guilin on 24th January slightly after lunch time. This was a bit of a transit city before we headed up to Yangshuo. However we had time to explore the Guilin Scenic Park surrounded by the limestone cliffs. It even had the seven star caves and a zoo. We went into the caves not realising we had paid for a tour by a lovely chinese girl who tried her best to speak English but it was hard to have a detailed conversation. Basically the tour was to tell us what ...

... WILL IGNORE THEM JUST BECAUSE YOU THINK THEY ARE TRYING TO SCAM YOU OR SELL YOU SOMETHING (WHICH THEY ARE VERY AGGRESSIVE AT BTW). WITH THAT BEING SAID, CHINA IS CONSTANTLY IN YOUR FACE AND CONSTANTLY AFTER YOUR MONEY AND I DON'T BLAME THEM, EVERYONE DESIRES A BETTER LIFE, A GOOD LIFE. THERE ARE A LOT OF LIES AND SCAMS THAT YOU HAVE TO WEED YOURSELF THROUGH AND THE MINUTE YOU ARE NICE IS THE MINUTE YOU ARE TAKEN IN BY CHINA AND THE MINUTE YOU ARE DEFENSIVE IS WHEN YOU ...

... already been slept in... Being in the mood I was, I was absolutely furious, but that soon subsided when I took a deep breath and reminded myself that I'm in China, I'm very lucky, and actually compared to many modes of transport this train was very, very clean... After I got a hold of myself, all was well...!! We didn't do much at all on our first day in Chengdu... In fact I think we just napped, got up in the late afternoon, ate and then went ...

... Village, through the rice terraces. It was so amazing to see the large-scaled terrace fields, resulting from people's hard work of more than 600 years since Dynasty Yuan. Here are settled two main minorities, Zhuang and Yao. All of them tried to survive with the few they have, their creativity and intelligence just made us admire. The walk was a bit tough under the burning sunshine, but ...

Today I took a full day tour of Guilin. I was joined by just one other couple from London. Our first stop was Seven Star Park. There was something for everyone in this park. There was an ampitheaterfor shows. There was a rock museum with all kinds of ...

... hour train ride was uneventful (thank goodness!!!). We had decided that when we got into Beijing we would go to Gai Fan for a good meal before heading home. Unfortunately our train got in about 2 hours late and it was past midnight by the time we actually got to Beijing. So that idea was shot and we just went straight home. All in all, some disappointments and unlucky things, but still a good trip!