Guilin Apparently, most Chinese love Guilin and are immensely proud of the place - and rightly so. It's a likeable, relaxed city with picturesque waterways and bridges. It's set amongst some dramatic karst scenery - huge upthrusts of rock dot the landscape around and within the city. These pinnacles offer some great views of the city's surroundings. The scenery is probably well known to most people from the typical Chinese scroll paintings and holiday brochures - soaring limestone peaks of all shapes and sizes covered in trees, rice paddies, people working the fields with water buffalo and the beautiful Li River winding through it all. Guilin - beautiful by day, crazy at night - We had a couple of really good nights here mainly centered around the main square home to plenty of trendy bars. Being
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