Western Hill Hotel Guilin

... more authentic in many of the restaurants you actually sit next to the animals you are about to eat! We are both fans of fresh food, but even for us this was a step too far and we couldn&#8217;t bring ourselves to eat face to face with the poor little animals (not that we were in a rush to eat turtle or cane rat!)<br><br>We did find some great restaurants in the city however and enjoyed the best beef in black bean sauce ever on two occasions in a place with no live animals on show (we ...

... enter the palace, I first had to go through the main gate of the palace's protective wall. Now there is just one opening, but originally there were three. Two have been bricked up. guarding either side of the entrance are two stone dogs. Similar to the stone lions seen at most imperial palaces, the stone dogs became popular in the later part of the Qing Dynasty. <br><br><br>After entering the wall's main gate, I headed straight to the palace compounds main gate. It is very ...

... packed with tourists- for some reason all the chinese travel here. In town they even have western food! i was already tired of chinese food, so me and adam got pizza, which was like chinese pizza haha. The only thing that i cant stand is that most places are soo dirty!! One day me and adam went to get dumplings, and while we were waiting for our food we watched a lady making them at another table. She dropped one of the dumpling wrappers, picked up up, dusted it off ...

... The day after that we ventured to the AMAZING Reed Flute Cave, the Royal Palace of Guilin, ventured to the top of the temple mtn overlooking the city and the beautiful river, and the absolutely amazing Thousand Buddha Cave. It was cool to see the different transitions and eras in styles of Buddha sculptures throughout time and the cave overlooked a river full of black cranes and reeds and reed boats. A wonderful sight!!

... and various fishermen. We also saw a dead dog which obviously was being prepared as a gourmet meal for Chinese New Year. This is the first part of China where I have seen dog on the menu. Everywhere else they have actually treated them as pets and are all well looked after. We believed the boat trip to be the last part of our adventure to Yangshuo but how we were wrong. We stopped the boat in the middle of no where but this woman appeared from nowhere with a ...

... FAR IN TERMS OF BEING BROKEN. THOUGH, THEY HAVE ALSO DELIVERED SOME AMAZING ADVENTURES, SOME OF THE BEST DURING OUR TIME IN CHINA! NOW IN GENERAL I WOULD SAY THAT KASEY AND I HAVEN'T BEEN BROKEN YET, THOUGH WE HAVE BEEN PUSHED CLOSE TO THE EDGE A FEW TIMES DURING OUR STAYS IN GUILIN AND YANGSHUO. OUR DEMEANORS ARE WAY TOO NICE TO BE BROKEN AND OFTEN TIMES WE KNOW THAT WE ARE PAYING WAY TOO MUCH FOR SOUVENIERS AND OTHERS THINGS, BUT WE ARE KEEPING OUR WITS ABOUT US AND IN ...

... As much as I love living in a city at home, for my travelling tastes, I am not really into big cities so much... there are exceptions - I loved Japan and have found some great stuff in China's cities too, but pulling up in Yangshuo felt like a breath of fresh air... it wasn't actually fresh... it was smoggy, much like the rest of China - although be warned - if you try and suggest to a Chinese person that the haize preventing you from seeing a ...

... especially mountains with forms like rat, camel, turturse, or horses etc. Under the attack of the two boys in our group, a battle of water burst out among the rafts. No any heat left, only the joy and coolness. D4: Arrival at Yangshuo from Xingping. Again drifting, on Yulong River, but this time with hand rafting. Even more clear water and more charming view. Only if the time machine ...

... back to 792 AD during the Tang Dynasty, over one thousand years ago. These aged marks tell that it have been an attraction in ancient time. After lunch we visited a small park and saw Fubo Hill. Insdie a small cave by the hill were some old carved ...

Our last morning in Guìlín dawned cloudy, but at least without rain. The alarm o'clock didn't fail to sound this time, so Yan Hua and I got up early enough and on time for everything. After we had packed our things quickly, we could without any hurry go for a breakfast to an eatery nearby. I suppose that eating in places like that is most certainly not what majority of western tourists do during their visits to ...