Yangshuo Tangrenjie Hotel - Guilin

... our next 3 days here.



Much prettier town & calmer feel already than Guilin. Has a population of 300,000 so half the size & the buildings of the town are really right in the middle of the karst limestone peaks. Everywhere you look they are RIGHT there in front of you. We are about 400 metres from West St - a famous tourist street full of shops, cafes & accomodation ...

... once I get home to those interested in tasting them - just let me know if you fancy it. Please have no preference for 'lean' eating on request because everything is cooked in buckets of oil.

The next day I got up bright and early for a different kind of "hands on" china experience that was up close and personal. Rock climbing. What possessed me to tackled this in China when I have Kangaroo Point cliffs on my doorstep in Brisbane and have ...

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... no helmets to wear and just told to hold on to the side. It was ok but we did get a little nevroues when they w**e doing 70mph and puling wheelies. The boat trip taskes place at night on the Li Riv** and it is well worth the money. You follow anoth** boat which has the fishingman and his birds and it is all lit up so it v**y easy to see. At the end of the trip they take you to the side of the riv** and you see the fish they have caught and your able to meet the fish**man. The ...

... is so sad for us because it is our main mode of communication to all our friends and family in the States!! Hopefully I will have Gavin spread the word and update my pictures and status to everyone. But if you want to contact me, my email is aswanson77@hotmail.com.

A chauffeur was waiting for us to take us to Yangshuo (a small town outside of Guilin). It was about an hour and a half ...

... a pretty common question in China. I told her my name and that I was from the USA. I found that I was talking to "Moon Mama," and she explained that foreigners were unable to say her Chinese name, so she started telling people that she was the famous Mama of Moon village.

After the family all got out of bed, and everyone had eaten their breakfast, we decided that we would go to the Water Cave, one of the area's great attractions. Shuttled to the cave by a ...

Got up early cause i couldn't sleep because of jet lag or whatever - finished prince of tides book on the first day and tony doesnt have any books for me to read on the entire trip now so Im screwed since i cant read chinese

we checked out the school - all of the chinese think we are twins and when we say we arent then they say im younger - then happens 100% of the time - its funny

we made a sweet bike ride 5-6 miles down the river through farms and ...

... sogar (wie eigentlich geplant) noch weit** nach Suedwesten zu reisen. Also haben wir die Route ein bisschen umgestrickt, w**den nur noch nach Guilin fahren und dann die Tour Richtung Nordosten fortsetzen. Die Stadt Guilin war an sich ganz nett (bis auf die lebensgefaehrlich glatten Platten in d** Fussgaeng**zone und den hochwass**gefaehrdeten Fluss), das einzige Problem war es hi** was v**nuenftiges zu Essen zu bestellen. Wir haetten das Problem zwar leicht mit dem ...

... our street a new shop was opening, a new juice bar. This one was typical walk up kind very small no inside seating. Now we have competition again. I said last years competition lasted 4 months lets see how long this one will last. Any way our Juice Bar is more Tutor Center now. Speaking of which we picked up some more students at the tour guide class. We now have 11. We broke the class into two groups with Shelly work at ...

Our second day in Guilin we headed down the Li River to Yangshuo. We woke up very early for us - 6:45 - got dressed and went downstairs to wait for the bus. The bus was 45 minutes late, but it wasn't too bad considering after they picked us up the Chinese concession (aka everyone else) went shopping at a jade market for 45 minutes and Steve and I sat in the bus and read books. After that, we were off! We had heard ...