Year: 2006

Yangshou.

A backpacker and traveller metropole.

Set in the village of Yangshou offers boating, mountaineering, absailing around the rocky outcrops. The usual backpacker stuff.

A good market stall selection on West Street.

The fact that it had neither broadband or airport meant it was unsuitable as a business traveller.

If you take the Li Valley River cruise, you will be taking a bus back from here, no doubt, and you’ll probably wish you were a backpacker again.

The highlight of any visit to Guillin is the Li River cruise.

Classic Chinese scenes are based on landscapes around this area.
As you can see below we have a classic granite/porous rock based on the precipitation and erosion caused by rainfall causing the majority the of land formations.

Very little glaciation.

The river itself is very shallow.

Inspiring.

The cruise cost virtualy nothing, you get lunch like a banquet, a free bottle of beer and the chance to meet and mingle with other European types.

Visited the Theatre in Guillin on the representation of the girl at the airport tourism desk.

This is my first taste of Chinese culture ‘real’.

Here’s some pictures..

Managed to get some pictures of the cast backstage.

Spent the day travelling.

Am now In Guillin.

Which looks like this.

View from Hotel roof.

View from Window.

Sort of like a dirty version of Vancouver.
If you’ve been there.

Lijiang Waterfall
The Hotel is called the Lijiang Waterfall Hotel, 5 star.
It’s in the Guinness book of records for having the largest artificial waterfall at 75 meters.