Nikki (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} intothe_woods) wrote,@ 2005-12-20 16:39:00 |
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Guilin/Longshen
Long time with no update! I thought I would wait until I was in the states for Christmas with a faster internet connection before I tried to catch up. I can't believe I haven't even finished my Guilin trip yet!!! Well, here it is, the last section of Guilin…short and sweet
More Pictures here!
We headed over to a small village that is famous for the 'rice terrace fields'. They were pretty stunning but the weather was total shit while we were there. The whole place, the whole area is connected by paths and stairs that were nothing more than big stones. Not ever flattened, just rocks. Slipperiest rocks you could ever imagine! Slippery rocks of death as I like to call them. After what happened to Raza on the Silk Road trip I'm surprised they chanced this quite actually. I'm surprised no one got hurt.
On the first day a few of us decided to stop early on the hike, it was raining (still) and really, you could only see so many rice fields. We headed back to the 'hotels'. We stopped on the way, someone wanted to get a picture of an old woman who was selling things on the path. We chilled there for a while eating sweet potatoes. The rest of the evening consisted mainly of drinking mijiu, a fantastically sweet wine made out of rice. Some of us skipping the party planned for that night, it was in the town below us (Read: Going down those slippery rocks of death in the MIDDLE of the night) and we didn't want to die. We hung out with the owner of the place and talked to him for a while. Turned rock-paper-scissors into a drinking game. That was our night pretty much.
The next day some of us woke up early to go on a hike to a different village near by. The hike was beautiful and not as hard of a walk as the day before, and not as wet either. We got to the village and went up to the school and got to play with the kids during their recess. Tons of fun :) Those kids were adorable!
After that we were on a bus for a while and ended the trip with A RESORT. Hotsprings :) SO fantastic. Best way to end a vacation too. We got massages, chilled in the hot tubs and drank for the entire rest of the day and night. It was so relaxing and so much fun to just chill with people.
I loved this trip, all in all. It was nice to just be able to do things and not have an 'educational' experience like the Silk Road. Not that it wasn't interesting, but it would have been better without things like those speeches to sit through and the boring museums and whatnot. Fun trip. I love China.
Long time with no update! I thought I would wait until I was in the states for Christmas with a faster internet connection before I tried to catch up. I can't believe I haven't even finished my Guilin trip yet!!! Well, here it is, the last section of Guilin…short and sweet
More Pictures here!
We headed over to a small village that is famous for the 'rice terrace fields'. They were pretty stunning but the weather was total shit while we were there. The whole place, the whole area is connected by paths and stairs that were nothing more than big stones. Not ever flattened, just rocks. Slipperiest rocks you could ever imagine! Slippery rocks of death as I like to call them. After what happened to Raza on the Silk Road trip I'm surprised they chanced this quite actually. I'm surprised no one got hurt.
On the first day a few of us decided to stop early on the hike, it was raining (still) and really, you could only see so many rice fields. We headed back to the 'hotels'. We stopped on the way, someone wanted to get a picture of an old woman who was selling things on the path. We chilled there for a while eating sweet potatoes. The rest of the evening consisted mainly of drinking mijiu, a fantastically sweet wine made out of rice. Some of us skipping the party planned for that night, it was in the town below us (Read: Going down those slippery rocks of death in the MIDDLE of the night) and we didn't want to die. We hung out with the owner of the place and talked to him for a while. Turned rock-paper-scissors into a drinking game. That was our night pretty much.
The next day some of us woke up early to go on a hike to a different village near by. The hike was beautiful and not as hard of a walk as the day before, and not as wet either. We got to the village and went up to the school and got to play with the kids during their recess. Tons of fun :) Those kids were adorable!
After that we were on a bus for a while and ended the trip with A RESORT. Hotsprings :) SO fantastic. Best way to end a vacation too. We got massages, chilled in the hot tubs and drank for the entire rest of the day and night. It was so relaxing and so much fun to just chill with people.
I loved this trip, all in all. It was nice to just be able to do things and not have an 'educational' experience like the Silk Road. Not that it wasn't interesting, but it would have been better without things like those speeches to sit through and the boring museums and whatnot. Fun trip. I love China.
