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5 Outdoor Adventures Around Guilin, China
Blog: GoBackpacking - 26 December 2011
Guilin city is an extremely beautiful town located in the northern part of Guangxi Province, China. After arriving, I asked a local about the population of Guilin. “It’s very small, about 6 million,” she replied. I guess by Chinese standards that is rather small. Anyways, don’t let the mid-sized city population of Guilin throw you [...]
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Hiking the Longsheng Rice Terraces of China
Blog: GoBackpacking - 12 December 2011
ager and excited to do some hiking and view some incredible mountain scenery, I boarded a bus from Guilin to Longsheng in Guangxi Province, China. The bus driver chose to use his foghorn instead of his breaks as our public mini-bus screeched around mountain switchbacks, over tiny bridges and around completely blind turns. In just [...]
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Back drifting
Blog: Drifting Aimless - 3 October 2010
Dreams of Siberia give way to the blue morning haze, ice on a northerly wind, winter has found me once again, its time to flee, to south and out of China for good, already I have been here nearly two months, time to move on. I plot a course skirting the border back to Kunming [...]
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Why Does Everyone Miss Reed Flute Cave?
Blog: Living the Dream: RTW - 1 October 2010
After arriving in Guilin, my very first order of business after settling into my hostel was to make a trip out to nearby Reed Flute Cave. Reading about it online and seeing pictures of the iconic scenes placed it as my top site in Guilin to see, apart from trips out to Yangshuo and Lonji. After returning from the
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Dog Day Afternoon
Blog: Drifting Aimless - 26 September 2010
The scene resembled something out of a horror movie. The frozen angry scowling death grimaces left me under no illusions; those dogs had died hard. Brandishing a huge meat cleaver, gleefully a man hammered away surrounded by what Id imagine the end-product of a stick of dynamite and a barrel full of dogs might well [...]
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The Wandering Bee
Blog: Drifting Aimless - 19 September 2010
I dipped my foot absent mindedly in the pool and traced small semi circles in the water. “So where else have you traveled?” I asked her. Taut and pressed tightly against her slight frame using arms for supported the Chinese-American girl dipped her legs down into the water. I had smiled when she told be [...]
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Monkeying around in Yangshuo
Blog: Drifting Aimless - 12 September 2010
“Ok, no problem, follow me, Ill show you how to catch the bus” “You’ll show me how to catch the bus?” I repeated slowly to myself as I followed the hostel girl out the door. This definitely sounds ominous I thought and my fears were soon shown to be well founded. Already encumbered, the plan [...]
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Guilin, city of broken footpaths
Blog: Drifting Aimless - 5 September 2010
A chill hangs in the air as I arrive in Guilin in the early morning. I was surprised, I hadn’t felt cold since the night I lay wheezing under an ox cart in Mongolia. There was talk of snow in the north, difficult to believe in the sweltering heat of Hong Kong, but it was [...]
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So long and thanks for all the karst
Blog: eat drink seth liz - 29 August 2009
After two months, we were ready to leave the construction noise and crowds of Shanghai and set off on a week long adventure. Using her limited Chinese, and an assortment of travel books, Liz worked hard to plan the perfect getaway with sporty outdoors activities, adorable villages, and luxury pampering. We finally settled on a trip to the village of Ping An and the town of Yangshuo.
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So long and thanks for all the karst
Blog: eat drink seth liz - 28 August 2009
After two months, we were ready to leave the construction noise and crowds of Shanghai and set off on a week long adventure. Using her limited Chinese, and an assortment of travel books, Liz worked hard to plan the perfect getaway with sporty outdoors activities, adorable villages, and luxury pampering. We finally settled on a trip to the village of Ping An and the town of Yangshuo. Despite Liz's efforts, many important details were lost in translation. For Instance: Our hotel, the beautiful LiQing guest house is not accessible by car. We only discovered this important detail at 2am when,...
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