Towers at night

Guilin

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January 25th 2009
Day 68 and Day 73 - Guilin Guilin is a busy city in China which is famous for it's rice fields. We are staying in the city at a nice hostel called Xiao Yang Lou International Youth Hostel, which is right by a river. Guilin City has some nice parks and scenic places to see. We started at Solitary Beauty Peak which was a nice park where if you climb the peak you get a nice view of the city it's ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more