Osmanthus Hotel Guilin

... area with fresh weather, nice food, nice shopping at the huge night market.  Its name means "forest of sweet osmanthus", owing to the large number of fragrant sweet osmanthus trees located in the city and surrounded by beauty mountains. The ...

... The shrub grows everywhere in and around the city; the name Guilin, in fact, means "forest of sweet osmanthus." The area around Guilin is dotted with weirdly shaped karst pinnacles that appear to have spring up straight from the ground. They look like ...

... sense. Every place we have stayed at does allow you to use the air conditioning all the time while you are in the room, except the Osmanthus hotel. The first day we were there the air con was on in the day while we had been in the room. The 2nd day we ...

... , has a population of 1.3 million and saw its first inhabitants in the Qin Dynasty over 2,000 years ago. Guilin (forest of sweet Osmanthus), was named after the fragrance of the Osmanthus tree which line the streets. The flowers are used to make jam, ...

... ; The flught once it finally took off was uneventful and we hitched a ride on a very crowded shuttle bus at the Osmanthus Hotel.  Osmanthus is a very small very fragrant flower and is the symbol of Guilin.   After a less than impressive hotel ...