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Ok so we arrived in Guilin, after a 22 hour train ride from Shaghai. Oddly enough the train wasn't so bad because we basically slept about 18 hours. I have no idea how this happened. It could have been the gentle rocking of the tracks, mixed in with the jaring stops and random tilting....
But, finally we reached our destinatin wide awake and ready to face the world! Except the world apparently didn't like us much, as it was POORING rain! That's ok though cause it did clear up the next day, which is when we took our trip to the Longshen rice terraces. That wuld be all the pictures under the Guilin photo album. It was a fun hike up the hill, (Nothing compared to past mountains) and as you can see, the feilds were gorgeous. One downside was the "cultural" show, basically put on for the tourists, where you have to pay a extra fee to see, local dances and the long haired women of the tribe. Not all that fun but, Kait was game, and now we know to always avoid them.
The next day we got to go on the Li river cruise. This is the main reason we came to this area, and it took us about 5 hours to go from Guilin to Yangshao. (Where we are now) Absolutely stunning. Again, I love this area of China! We ended up taking the chinese tour. Cause who really needs to know what peak or river bend is named what? Plus it was about half the price of the english one. They did show up about 2 hours late...and when we actually got on the bus (more like a small van really) There was a REALLY angery chinese man yelling at the female tour guide! They had a screaming match back and forth for about 5 minutes. (me and Kait like to think they were arguing about bannanas and his potassium deficiency...)
Either way, we got to see the stunning scenery, and got to our next destination. Yeah! Yangshao!
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