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HE SAID: Guilin turned out to be a very nice town. I really like that the center of town neighbors a beautiful lake with 2 good looking (although newly made) Pagodas. Our visit to the Reed Cave was a little touristy but I liked how it was lit up with tons of different colored lights. If this was our first cave on the trip, I may have been disapp...

The train ride from N疣n�ng to Gu�l�n with its duration of five hours in Chinese terms probably belongs to shorter ones. Or short ones. Besides, whenever I take a trip I've never taken before, just looking at the new scenery through the window is interesting in itself to me. And whole thing was facilitated by the fact that, miraculously, we were...

Chifan le ma? (It's a Chinese greeting, it's a way to say how are you, but literally it means "have you eaten rice yet?". Brilliant.) We have arrived in Guilin, after a 24-hour train ride from Chengdu. The soft-sleeper wasn't so soft this time, but at least we had bottom berths so we weren't too uncomfortable. Very cute guy in the same compartme...

Golden Week in China starts with the National Day holiday, which was October 1 this year, and as school was closed Jude and I returned to Yangshuo to visit friends, do some more sightseeing, pamper ourselves for a few days and include a day trip to Guilin. The trip from Jianghua to Yangshuo was 4.5 hours of bone rattling, teeth chattering discom...

Am Saechsi si mir los, um raechtzytig am Bahnhof z'si. Dr Zug fahrt am zaeh ab sibni, auso gnueg Zyt, e haub Stund fruecher am Bahnhof z'si. Usgrueschtet mit Bier u Food hei mir zimli schwaer z'Schleppe gha u hei probiert, ir Rushhour ir Subway mit de Rucksaeck niemer z verletze. Wo mir umgstiege si, haette mir eigentlech scho am Bahnhof soeuae ...

Guangzhou Day 1 ~ pigging out! constance and i reached guangzhou at 11am. bot a local phone card and called up a few hotels to check vacancies. turns out that some were fully booked and others were v expensive by china stds(at about S$80 for double rm). this was partially due to the annual trade fair that was being held. so we made the decision ...

Guilin is the city at the south of China, which is called the waters and mountains in guilin are the best under the heaven. In my opinion, the mountains are green and the water is clean. there are many nice famous spot at land, and a splendid water cruise for Li river from guilin to its small county yangshuo. At yang shuo, you can hike, bike, ra...

After a delicious Cantonese meal with Kimmy and Joe in Guangzhou, we headed onto Guilin, often called the Jewel of China due to the picturesque Li River with surrounding green peaks and caverns depicted in many traditional Chinese paintings. Few Westerners visit this part of China as we discovered at a 'hotpot' restaurant - we became the star at...

As we arrived at Guilin airport all seemed normal to us western travellers and proceeding to Tourist information nothing seemed different, hopping on the bus to town it was only after being dropped at the railway station that China hit us, people everywhere, no sign of English and our task was to buy tickets for a few days later. Usually asking ...