This was my main day in Guilin, but strangely enough, I don't have that much to say about it. I started the day with a Li River cruise from Guilin to Yangshuo with my rent-a-friend (AKA my guide, Li). It took about four hours and I spent the day on the deck taking about 200 pictures of the beautiful scenery. The mountains were so different from...

Occasionally we get asked if we are enjoying our holiday and are relaxed. While we are thoroughly enjoying our trip there are times when we would hardly call it a holiday. What we have come to realised in the past few weeks is that our previous 8 to 5 working lives were usually quite well defined. You usually have a 5 working day week and then i...

Nous quittons Yangshuo pour un autre paysage typique de la Chine : les rizi鑽es en terrasse de Longsheng. Le bus parcours une route de montagne sinueuse jusqu'au village de Yan'An o� nous passons la nuit. Nous sommes � 1900m d'altitude. Nous explorons ce petit village � flancs de montagne, qui semble avoir 騁� construit par D馘ale en personne. ...

This morning we finally received our first complete taste of China and contrary to what I thought, China is not the same as Hong Kong! Lol. As I wrote in my quick entry the other day, mum and I met up with our intrepid group on Sunday night. Everyone is very very nice and mum was very happy to see some other people her age! We had a great time i...

I am making slow progress on the jet-lag. Today will be a relatively light day for sightseeing since we leave at noon for the airport for our flight to Guilin. After a moderate breakfast of croissants, sweet rolls, several cups of coffee, boiled egg and fruit we took off for a walking tour of old Shu He town. Shu He is one of three old villages ...

Hello again, These are pictures from our stay in Guilin and Guangzho. Guilin is beautiful city of about 3 million people. It is lush green and gorgeous. It is no doubt the prettiest town we have visited so far. There are tons of parks surrounding the lakes and rivers in this area. In the center there are 2 pagodas, which you will see in the pict...

You cannot beliave your eyes, when you look at the wonderful landscape, removed directly from a Chinese painting. Going down in the Li river and finally arrive to the unique Yangshuo margins, is living a dream. Stay overnight in the international backpack Yangshuo village and meet drifters form all over the world.

After a night of dreaming about tofu with tomato and Chinese giants, we were a bit slow to wake up. Which meant we missed the early train to our next destination: Guilin. There was another train an hour and a half later, so we had plenty of time. Not as much, perhaps, as we thought -- we found ourselves running to the train station with only fif...

Arriving after a 26 hour train journey (smells, spits, you name it) we were looking forward to some sun......so you can imagine our disappointment when we stepped of the platform into the coldest night yet.. Anyway wrapped up we wondered Guilin- a nice city. Much cleaner and less manic then the north of china. We had a lovely walk up some of the...

Written by Meg Once we arrived in Guilin, we headed to the tourist booth to get some information. First I asked the dreaded question,"Is there a bathroom here?". I had learned by this point that no standards were thought about when building a bathroom. This particular bathroom was somewhat like an animal barn. It had stalls, but the actual toile...