Guilin Bravo

... as we approached the city how all of the streets and buildings were lit up. Amy told us that we would be staying at the Guilin Bravo Hotel which was right beside one of the four lakes in Guilin. We soon arrived at the hotel which was again very nice ...

... of tender aparagus-like bamboo holding sliced pork and a tiny fisherman carved from a carrot. After our meal we continued to the Guilin Bravo Hotel, our home for the next two days. Happy birthday, Kelsey! With the twelve-hour time difference, we can ...

... is evidenced by the lack of English language signage and also, outside of the hotel, very few of the natives speak English.  Guilin traces its history back to 300 BC but flourished and grew during the Tang and Song dynasties (700-1200 ...

... hats going to visit Guilin. They assume we work in Xiamen as it's not the usual way for Westerners to approach Guilin, although it's China's no 1 destination internally! The city looks very nice at night with lakes surrounded with paths and trees, ...

... Team, so we are earning Delta Skymiles on all these flights. Our layover in Kunming is about 3 hours, and then a 1.5 hour flight to Guilin, where the temperature is 90 degrees when we land at 7:30pm! We transfer to the hotel, and three of the guys go out ...

... , and went to the hotel after meeting the tour guide. She recommended that we go on a night time boat tour of the lakes in Guilin, so we did. Dropped bags off and then walked to the city centre to have some food (which was very nice as we chose it, ...

Family and Friends Today is a travel day; again.  We're going to the city of Guilin.  We do get some extra rest today because our flight is not until 1940 tonight.  Our plans for the day are to check out of our rooms by 1400 and ...

Guilin Tour (Part 2)... After the Li River cruise and shopping in the town of Yangshou local market, we boarded our bus for a trip to the town of Yulong to visit some local farmers.  While riding from the local market to our bus ...

Good morning It's Thursday, 18 August 2011; our Guilin tour day. Because we took so many pictures of today's activities, I decided to break this post into two parts; the Li River cruise (Part 1), and a local farmers town visit ...

... and much politer drivers). S explained that Guilin is a massively popular internal tourist destination and so kept very clean. The hotel (Guilin Bravo) was beside a bridge and was very plush with a central pool open to the air- sadly it was only for 1 ...

As you'll note from one of the below photos, our hotel overlooks a body of water called Rong Lake.  While the path around the lake is pretty during the day, it's even more beautiful at night all lit ...

... A man also cut paper silhouettes of both of us as souvenirs of our visit. Exhausted from our efforts we then returned to the Guilin Bravo Hotel for another nights stay there. Our room this time overlooked the lake and it was lovely to see the lights ...

... trinkets, but we were feeling a little tired and cranky near the end of the day. We took the perfunctory photos by Guilin's most famous and symbolic rock formation - 象鼻山 Elephant Trunk Hill - and viewed some scenic spots, like ...

... is known for it's beautiful landscapes- many of the paintings that you see were inspired by the mountains and river in Guilin. We watched a demonstration by a local artist on painting techniques that they use and he showed us how to paint bamboo with a ...