The Blue Silk Ribbon of the Li River
June 4th 2008 “The river winds like a blue silk ribbon while the hills are erect like green jade hairpins” - so wrote the poet Han Yu in the Tang Dynasty
Guilin is in the Guangxi Province and a one hour flight journey from Hangzhou. We arrived at around 9.30 in the evening as was relieved to see that there were mini coaches providing a shuttle service into the city, no kamikaze taxi drivers this time!
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