Guilin Stories


Definately Not Singing In the Rain

Our plan today was to hire a taxi to take us to a small village in the high rice terraces, we would walk 4 hours to the next village and the taxi would pick us up. We hailed 6 cabs and none were interested. So we called the fellow that was associated with our hotel who arranges tourist services and asked him to get us a taxi for the day. A half hour ...


it's Not The Heat ...

We arrive in Guilin at dusk, around 8:00. This was a major adjustment for us coming from Urumqi where it was quite light out until 10:30 or so. I n the dimmed light we could barely make out the lime stone hills that make this part of China famous and attracts millions of Chinese visitors every year. We did not realize that the city sits amongst a num...


Chinese Roundup...

As i'm a little behind on the journal and i can actually bore myself with my last week of China i will do a quick round up... so here it goes! 18th... Got train and arrived in Gulin, free food as always... 20 mini dumplings on this occasion, finally had my Star Guitar moment after 6 weeks on the trains! should have done Yangzi River but couldn't be b...


A tourist town and its beauties

Tuesday morning we awoke to board an early bus to Guilin, the hot spot for vacationing. After about 2 hours of walking around the city we found our hostel, nearly 10 minutes from Downtown. It was a very great location for the night scene. Because we were short on time, we headed out to check out the beautiful sites. The city lies on the Luoyang River an...