Guilin Plaza Hotel

... went past several local villages, and saw temples dotted about on the shoreline. Quite rugged scenery close to the river which gives Guilin its fame. Finally got to the highlight which is the painted cliff with nine horses and turned around to go back to ...

... to the front of the queue and waving my passport and paperwork. Seems that's what any person in uniform just does to get attention. Flew to Guilin. When we arrived it was damp and foggy, and I was met by my guide named Sunny. Was taken in our taxi for a ...

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 ...

Today was a leisurely day - our pickup at the hotel wasn't until 9 am - it was like taking a half day off!   There was no rushing from place to place today as the only thing that was definitively scheduled was our evening flight to ...

... One of our group purchases the new work as a souvenir. The majority of the day is spent seeing the essential highlights of Guilin, including the Elephant Trunk Hill, Fubo Hill, and the Reed Flute Cave. We are definitely on the "tourist track" as ...

... . We arrived at our hotel after riding through a part of downtown Kowloon, street markets and residential areas.  Our hotel, Harbour Plaza 8 Degrees actually had things and some areas slanted 8 degrees (check-in counter, door frames to the elevators, ...

... foods on offer at a buffet. Foods from all around the world, it was delicious :D Vivien took us across town to the Crown Plaza Hotel were they had a NZ band playing. Their music was great and the lead singer was hot hehehe. We had a great time catching ...

... airplane...strange.  After a short bumpy flight on a local chinese plane we landed in Guilin were someone waited with a little sign that said Kori and Adam! Then it was off to the Buckland hotel in Yangshou (a small town about an hour from ...

... we had to pass through customs and immigration.  The reason we came here is because it is cheaper to fly from Shenzhen to Guilin rather than Hong Kong to Guilin.              It was about ...

... think.) Scenes from our last full day in Kowloon: A young girl, about 6 perhaps, in the food court of the Grand Plaza Shopping Center adjoining our hotel where we are having lunch. She is eating noodle soup. She picks up a few noodles at a time with the ...

... /Av, good food, free WiFi, speak English, smoky - Babela’s Kitchen *** - Wanda Plaza - Hongqi Jie, fresh salads!, good pizzas - Paul’s Pizza *** - Guilin Avenue - really good pizzas! fresh salads - Grandma's Restaurant - Xi Kang Lu/Tongzhi Jie ...

... to be the loudest. The train compartment was quite nice with soft bed, a/c and big blanket. The overnight train arrived in Guilin and I immediately got on a bus for Yangshuo. It's about an hour south. The bus goes slow leaving town and was picking up ...

... plan our new adventure to the South of China! We are ecstatic to get out of the cold! I have a long trip planned through Shanghai, Guilin, Guangzhou and maybe Hong Kong. We just want to walk around and see as much of China as we can during our break from ...

... to and explore some more, it would probably be Yangshuo! This little jewel in the southern reaches of China about 1½ hours from Guilin has so much beauty and natural character that it’s nigh on to impossible to capture it all in just a few days. ...

... bathroom, air conditioning, and made the journey in record time without stopping.  Likewise the sleeper bus from Wuhan to Guilin was similar though the toilet overflowed.  And then, the sleeper bus from hell; well, not from hell, ...

... visited ten years ago. Since my friends wouldn't arrive for another few hours, after checking in at the hotel I headed to Oriental Plaza to do some shopping. The glittering (literally) mall near Tiananmen Square is filled with Beijing's prosperous ...