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Scenes from Guilin, China: Rivers, Karst Hills and Rice Fields
Blog: WildJunket - 21 May 2012
Having left Southeast Asia behind us, we’ve just arrived in Guilin, China – a laidback, tree-lined city hemmed by karst mountains, rice fields and winding rivers.
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A Little Light Show…Harmonizing Nature and Theatre in Yangshuo
Blog: A Little Adrift - A RTW Travelogue - 14 October 2011
Murmurings from the large audience hushed as a clear and open darkness dropped over our outdoor theatre. The silence was far from absolute though as a breeze swept nearby leaves into a quiet song, a gentle lapping of water, and eventually the sweet notes of a string instrument drifting up from the distant water as the show began. The boats paddled out from the edges of our riverside theatre and colored floodlights illuminated the distant limestone mountains in a myriad of primary colors accompanying the mood of the story. Back in 2008, I ...
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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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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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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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From the ragged Boundless West
Blog: Drifting Aimless - 29 August 2010
Guangxi the war ravaged mountains border of the Chinese Civilization, to the south the indomitable Vietnamese. Amongst the the far famed limestone karst peaks, old men fishing with tamed cormorants on mist drenched rivers, Guangxi is old mythical China of picture postcard, and it was to be my last taste of the mysterious Orient before [...]
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Yangshuo
Blog: Four Seas As Home - 22 April 2010
Since we spent longer than planned waiting for new visas in Hong Kong, we only had two full days around Yangshuo, and so we strapped on our hiking shoes and headed into the beautiful countryside. People in the area have clearly come to the conclusion that making money from tourists is much more pleasant than subsistence [...]
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Yangshuo, Yangshuo
Blog: Yoyo's travel blog - 13 March 2010
We spent more time in Yangshuo (Guangxi province) than in any other place during my hole trip. Buying all the gear in Hong-Kong, we were able to go rock-climbing everyday, without renting anything. Everyday the weather wasn’t too cold or rainy. Yangshuo was like a brake, a timeout from travelling, but still on the go. [...]
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Rice and Spiders in Guangxi: Trip Report (Part Two)
Blog: To China... and Beyond! - 24 September 2009
For part one of this trip report, see yesterday’s post on the Dragon’s Backbone Rice Terraces. When we arrived in Sanjiang, a smallish town in northeast Guangxi, we found that we had missed the last bus to the Chengyang Wind and Rain Bridge. Lonely Planet’s description of Sanjiang — a “bog-standard town” — was both incomprehensible [...]
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Rice and Spiders in Guangxi: Trip Report (Part One)
Blog: To China... and Beyond! - 23 September 2009
Last Friday night, I found myself once again on train 2513 bound for Guilin. Avid readers of the blog may remember that I am no fan of Guilin, and I happily spent just a few hours there on my return trip to Guangxi Province. The real aims were the Dragon’s Backbone Rice Terraces and the [...]
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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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So so Yangshuo
Blog: MatthewGain.com - 2 July 2009
The pictures in this post I believe speak for themselves. For me they capture the quintessential image of China made familiar from ink drawings and Willow pattern china plates. They were taken in Guangxi province near the town of Yangshuo. They are images that were stolen between torrential monsoonal downpours, along small dirt tracks and [...]
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Yangshuo: Anatomy of a Scam
Blog: 12FOOT3 - 26 June 2009
J and I are on our own again, and here’s where the story really gets interesting. Not that China wasn’t interesting before…it’s just that we’re now no longer on the 5-star hotel circuit. ‘Nuff said, right? Our next destination was Yangshuo, a town near the city of Guilin in Guangxi province, famous for its karst topography. [...]
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Yangshuo to Dali, China
Blog: Rice and Rock Concerts - 30 May 2009
Five days without an update, and that must surely have more to do with the dreadful internet speed over here in China than it does to do with my work ethic! I’m sitting in a bar in Dali, Yunnan. A peek over my right shoulder and I can see that for the first time in the two days that we’ve been here the rain has stopped. At approximately 3000m above sea level it should have come as no shock that it is wet and cold, but in a country known for ...
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Yangshuo, Guangxi, China
Blog: Rice and Rock Concerts - 26 May 2009
Yangshuo, Yunnan, China – Images by Jamie McDonald The same widget that cruelly counted down so slowly to my departure date is still ticking over on the mac and it now tells me that I’ve been on the road for ten days and fourteen hours. Why is it that time away goes so quickly compared to time at home? I’m in Yangshuo in Guanxi province – a city of 300,000 but the tourist area down on the Li River is a smattering of hostels, guesthouses, hotels and cafe’s where touts for all ...
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