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On the Li River

The Li River Cruise and XingPing

October 4th 2010
We arrived in Xingping after we had a banquet-like lunch that included three mushroom dishes (the quantity to be the brut of many jokes for the rest of the trip) and beer fish (a local speciality). None of us had any idea where we were, besides 40 minutes away from where we'd started. I'd certainly never heard of it, and just assumed that we were in some distant reach of Guilin, and not a differ ... read more
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