Guilin
Guilin was our fith stop in China. It’s probably the most picturesque too, with it’s high limestone peaks, lush greenery and rice paddies dotted around the landscape. This is how I imagined the Chinese countryside to be.
In the morning on our first day we went on a cruise down the Lee river. The scenery was beautiful, as you can see from the pictures below.
Then, later in the afternoon after the river cruise, we went for a drive around the countryside. We stopped to admire the view at one point, but got mobbed by a load of old women trying to sell us back scratchers. They were fairly persistent :-p
We also stopped off at a farmhouse to see how the locals live. It was surprisingly modern, they had gas, electricity, and a TV.
In the evening we went for a walk around Guilin. We went to see the cormorant fishermen. Unfortunately I didn’t manage to get any decent photos of that, but I did get a good one of the twin pagodas in the middle of one of the lakes in the city.
On our final day in Guilin we went to see the reed flute caves. On the way there we stopped off in a small town called Da-Xu.
