After a week of rushing around two of China's biggest cities, Michael and I were looking forward to taking a little rest in Guilin.
However, the rest didn't start out too well. Our flight from Xi'an was delayed three times, causing us to arrive in Guilin four hours late - 4 hours late meant midnight! and we still had to transfer from the airport to our hostel.
Thankfully, we had arranged ahead of time to have our hostel send a taxi to collect us, but due to the four hour delay certain parties on our trip (not me) were very doubtful our ride would still be there waiting for our arrival. But he was! And soon we were at the hostel being shown to our private room, which after a week of co-ed shared dorm rooms, was an amazing surprise to find!
No alarms were set and we went to bed with no set plans for the following day!
We finally got up around 11am Friday morning (8/12), had breakfast at the hostel and headed out to walk around the city and see what we could see.
We also did a little shopping!! Well, I did! And let me just say, Visa is not accepted everywhere! >:-( but I was able to get a new dress and a pair of shoes! :)
In the evening we went on a cruise of the four lakes to see the city at night and the Sun and Moon Pagodas all lit up.
The cruise was really nice. The city was beautiful, it has a bit of a European feel about it. I was using my SLR to capture some really great photos, but then the card went corrupt and all was lost! Not the best ending to a night out on the water! (Do not fear! Michael had a card reader and I was able to recover all that was lost! Although, now all of Macua is missing, but we're not there yet).
Saturday (8/13) we were picked up early to take a ride down the Li River to Yangshou. The river cruise was really fun and relaxing. The scenery was gorgeous! It's so gorgeous in fact that it appears on the Chinese money!
Back in Guilin that night, we cleaned up a bit and headed out for dinner and a walk through the night market. Then back to pack and rest up for the following days flight to Hong Kong!
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