Blogs from Guangxi, China, Asia - page 2

Pobudka o 3.45 w nocy to cos, do czego powinnismy byli przywyknac po zeszlorocznych wakacjach w Indonezji. Jednak dzwiek budzika o tej porze, po kolejnej dobie z niewielka iloscia snu, zawsze rozpoczyna jednoznaczny lancuch reakcji. ''Co sie dzieje? Gdzie sie pali? Aaaa to budzik zaraz sie bedzie palil...''. Zanim jednak wstalismy dzis o tak typowej, dla nas, porze byl dzien wczorajszy i rejs trzygwiazdkowym wycieczkowcem po rzece Li. 80 km droga rzeka z Guilin do Yangshuo to jedna z najwiekszych atrakcji w calych Chinach. Li leniwie przelewa sie pomiedzy jajowatymi, wapiennymi skalami, obrosnietymi podzwrotnikowa flora. Gdzieniegdzie zerwie sie ptak, Odpoczywajace wolu chlodzi sie przy brzegu a karawan trzygwiazdkowych statkow tnie wode nieustraszony, mknac z predkoscia 20 km/h. Owszem, rzeka jest piekna, jej okolica takze. Poczatek jest okazja dla fotografa amatora z komorka i se... read more

August 12 - Yangshuo5- Dia 52 Rest day. Well deserved, my forearms and fingers were destroyed. Starting the day with some good yoga, Five Parks Yoga.. amazes me every time. With no plans in mind I went one a short motorbike ride to some farm fields. Trying the motorbike off road for the first time, defiently not meant for it.? Today I always felt like something was missing. I was missing somebody to spend all this moments with. I find myself learning that I really can't live a single day without having some human contact. With the day getting warmer I decided to spent the rest of my time swimming in the Li River. It was comforting since their where aways people chilling next to me. Some fisherman dressed extremely professionaly but not managing to catch ... read more

August 8th -Yangshuo1- Dia 48 Jumping out of bed nice and early to explore the town and try to find the local climbers. No idea what to expect?. Walking out of the Hostel I was welcomed to some stemmed soy milk. Never gets old. I walked around a lot and started to notice how big the town was, if I really wanted to enjoy my stay here I would need to rent a bike. The walk was gorgeous, I had really missed the Chinese towns. Life was much slower and relaxing and you could see a gorgeous landscape all around. Something that you tend to miss in the cities, they seem to engulf the nature. Getting close to the famous West Street I started to see the town wake up ane start setting up their small ... read more

Today was an uneventful but overall fun day. First thing was wake up at 6:30 and depart from Singapore on Silk Air to Guilin, China. The fun part was getting to watch a bunch of movies and playing video games on the flight. Guilin is a prefecture-level city that has a lot of rich history like the rest of China. It was a county at one point and was involved with many dynasties of China. When we arrived in Guilin, we met up with the other tourist and rode a chartered bus to Downtown, where we ate some Chinese food. Then we hopped on a different bus and traveled to FengHuang Ancient City.... read more

I often heard about Yangshuo, during my first trip to China, but I missed that out because I had so many places in my mind to visit and I did not make it up to Guangxi Province. Finally, the time has come and I will never forget the day I arrived in this ancient town. It was a pretty cloudy day but the scenic, craggy mountains covered in lush green and the clouds encirling the peaks welcome the foreigners with outstanding breathtaking views of stunning karst mountain formations and the gentle Li river making its way through them. That was all to enjoy, I rerely remember such a beautiful scenary at my arrival in one place. "Yangshuo is also on the 20 yuan banknote". But, as it happens in all the beautiful places, even here the ... read more