Guilin Hostel

... !  I did enjoy my western breakfast yesterday and today though. So I had to make my way from the bus station to the hostel yesterday evening- I walked, because I knew it wasn't that far.  I got a little bit lost - ended up walking down a street ...

... he said “same same, but this this place better”. I laughed and went back to bed.. Arrived in Guilin an hour later to heavy rain. Arrived at hostel soaked. We had emailed ahead to the Backstreet Youth Hostel, as I had read they get busy/full. ...

... flyveren fra Sanya om aftenen, og sagt farvel til vores nye venner og de flinke folk paa vores hostel i Sanya, gik turen med lufthavnsbus ind til Guilin centrum. Vi stod af ved det sidste stop paa ruten, og skulle derfra finde hen til vores ...

... =$75 while in Prauge it is 3 times more). We slept until midday -now we go to the vegeterian restaurant, then to Guilin. The hostel lobby is full with Israelis(also families) even now - using the internet and talking. It is hot outside At Guilin we ...

... airport bus to where we were going, but a taxi only cost 90 RMB, so the four of us piled in to a cab and drove to Guilin Flowers Hostel. Our room at Guilin was acceptable considering the price (90 RMB), but it was not one of the nicer hostels we have ...

... half expected as Liz had told me Guilin was small. I wander through the main shopping streets, heading in the direction of Guilin’s biggest draw, Solitary Beauty Peak, a natural mountain around which, long ago, a palace court was built, although ...

... airport. We made our way to the hostel, and then met Angelo in an Irish bar (we're not proud) about 2 minutes walk from our hostel. I haven't seen Angelo for nearly ten years, we met in Thailand when I was 19, and he introduced me to Matt etc etc It was ...

... 's hostel there is a nice circular walk down one river, round the lakes and back up another to the hostel. There are only a couple of humps(Karsk peaks) in Guilin itself and they are quite expensive to climb, about 70 Yuan I think. It's hard to get out ...

... Guilin at around 2 pm to a beautiful sunny afternoon and checked into the "Flowers International hostel".  I'm not really sure what I was expecting from Guilin after 23 hours of rural China flashing past my window but I am delighted to say ...

... reputable tour. We also met in our hostel an Australian man who later told us our room was the best in the hostel and one of the best in Guilin. He was actually trying to get this room and we soon put two and tweo together realising why our hostel was ...

... it didn't look very happy in its cage and I hope to see some better treated ones later when I stop in Chengdu. From Guilin I took a 2 hour bamboo raft ride down the famous Li river into a town called Yangshou. This area is extremely touristy with ...

... . A teenager was talking with an old grandmother; it looked as if they were chatting about her artwork.  The streets of Guilin were packed with people, cars, bikes, busses, dirt, street vendors, all coming and going in a different direction but the ...

... was fantastisch en ook hier kon je ver over de stad uitkijken en de omringende bergen aanschouwen. Nadien terug gelopen naar het hostel waar ik enkele Zwitsers en Nederlanders aantrof. Het was inmiddels etenstijd en met hun in gesprek vroegen ze of ik ...

... home. Well, maybe I was tired, extremely tired of the journey for today. At 12.45am, I reached Guilin, I straight away took a taxi to the Backstreet Backpacker hostel, the taxi driver wanted to charge me 25Yuan, but at the end he only charged me 15Yuan, ...

We arrived in Guilin early this morning, and went straight to Flowers Youth Hostel. We dropped off our stuff, and I begged Eric to take a "20 minute" nap, which backfired and became two hours. We hauled our bums out of bed and began looking around for ...

... I am still trying to convince Russell they are real and not simply men in panda suits, but check the photos to see for yourself. Guilin was a great little town (little for China at over 300,000 people) and gave us a better glimpse of some Chinese than the ...

... biting chill of the wind, the need for a hat and scarf that’s getting all my synapses buzzing again. We arrived from Shenzhen to Guilin on the sleeper train, it took 12 hours and was a good journey. Stepping off the train at 7 AM we got a big ...

... so they melt in to the landscape. It is nice to see so much green, as most of the cities are very industrial looking. Guilin and the surrounding areas also have some interesting caves, lakes and the Li river, which runs through the city dividing it up in ...

... China. Despite our love for long train journeys this time we opted for the quicker option and braved China Southern airways direct to Guilin. (We spent some time picking a flight with a larger jet in the hope it would be safer... maybe a little paranoid ...