Off to the Country

Trip Start Oct 07, 2008
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Trip End Oct 25, 2008


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Flag of China  , Guangxi Zhuang,
Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Today I left Xi'an and flew to the Guilin airport. It was very hot outside. A driver hired by my hotel picked me up and took me for the two-hour drive to Moon Hill Village. After we entered Moon Hill Village, I saw chickens, a big pile of dung, and small houses. Once you make the first turn, the street gets very narrow so the driver stopped there and the owner of the hotel where I'd be staying met us there, picked up my bag, and walked me to the hotel. I arrived at the Moon Hill Resort, a farmhouse that had been converted into a hotel. The couple who own it live there with the husband's mother and the couple's four-year-old daughter. The first night there I went with a group of other guests to the San Lu Jie Light Show on the river. There are two shows every night. We went to the second show which started at 9:20. There was an unbelievable number of people there. There was a lot of pushing past people in the line--just what I'd been looking forward to! I elbowed some people (gently, of course) so I could fit in. It was fun! The show was really beautiful though I only understood one word in the whole show. Once we returned I went upstairs and went to sleep. It was so quiet out there at night. All you could hear were crickets chirping.
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