Guilin After completing our long week of midterms, our group took a trip to the southwestern part of China to the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, a province very close to Vietnam! It was a great way to relax after a stressful week of tests and papers and it was especially nice to get away from the cold that has settled into Beijing. We went from pants, jackets and scarf weather to shorts and flip-flops! Our first stop was Guilin, which is located in the northeastern part of the province and is known for its karst peaks that are randomly placed and are mostly under 650ft tall. The city is concentrated near the Li River giving it very flat land along the river but then it has sporadic, grassy hills every where else. During our stay there
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