This might be a very good time to speak in more detail about my time in Guilin, a city in South China, on the Li River. Throughout the city steep, beautifully shaped peaks, few more than 600 feet tall, rise out of the landscape. They are green and poetically shaped high-rises, that have given poets inspiration throughout centuries. Names such as Elephant Trunk Hill, Green Lotus Peak, Snail Hill, Penholder Peak, etc. evoke some creative images. Many of these peaks en-case some spectacular and accessable lime-stone caves. Though less tropical in the winter, the many trees and palms are always a riminder that this is the South. Life is an exiting mixture of the modern and of the primitive. Only minutes from the city, a water-buffallo will be sharing the road with a new Mercedes
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