Guilin Travel Blogs

Elephant Trunk Hill is a neat rock formation which actually looks like an elephant drinking from the Li River and it is located at the junction of the Li and Yang Rivers.  Our tour guide told us it was also known as the water-moon arch.  In the distance, it looked to me tha…

We called the same place we had taken the boat tour with this morning and asked to do a day tour of the guilin area as an individual tour.   We were surprised when the same taxi with the same driver pulled up and helen jumped out.  She was apparently the only English speaker availabl…

And we're on the road again, from Guangzhou to Guilin (Guangxi). I wasn't sure what to think of Guilin beforehand; people of TravBuddy give the city good reviews, but the 'packers I met in Hong Kong told me not to bother with it and go directly to Yangshuo. I guess both are right; I …

Guilin: top 10 resort landscape of China you have to visit

People i met here, who contributed to and improved my trip: Juliana (Russia) After having a shot too many of rice wine in Yangshuo, we unfortunately missed our train from Guilin to Nanning. Sadly we were not as lucky as in Shanghai, having to pay the full price of another ticket, with not even a p…

   Today i just registered in travbuddy, i got this webside from a famous travel magazine, i know here gathers many travel lovers , so i want to show the beautiful place where i study to everyone , and i also want to make many freinds who like traveling , i want to know much more about ot…

Two days ago I boarded a train in Chengdu for Guilin.  Up until about two hours before departure, I thought I was in for another standard overnighter.  And I had a ticket for a soft sleeper in my hands, so I thought it'd be easy peasy.  Yeah right.  Turns out the train is twenty…

Crucero por el rio Lijiang. Nada mas empezar el crucero ya vemos como los vendedores ambulantes se las ingenian para vender, en una balsa de madera se acercan al barco y desde fuera intentan vender su mercancía.

@The 9 Hr bus ride from hell Here are your options to get from Guangzhou (Guangdong Province) to Guilin (Guanxi Province). Ranked by cost :$ - 9 Hr bus ride from Hell (170Y)$$ - 13 Hour Sleeper Train The price ranges from 160Y to 320Y for 5 different classes. 1- Hurt your ass hard seat class2- Les…

i took a flight to Guilin and arrived there at 9 pm. i was accommodated at Airline Grand Hotel. that is stat-four standard and the service was good.The next day i went to Yangshuo.the water is clean and the mountains are unique.almost every mountain has of its own shape.it costed me 4 hours to fini…

The bus back to Guilin left at 1:00 PM and we headed over to the bus station in time for departure.  It was all of the 1.5-hours back to Guilin as we said goodbye to karst country.  Dropped off at the train station and we entered the waiting area for our 16:15 train to Liuzhou.

I got use to see Chinese paintings with caligraphy, they always have serene mountains, pessive clouds, calm rivers and little men sitting (hiding) on the rock, meditating or playing musical instrument. This is, the ideal picture of Chinese "Escaped World". I always think, these elements are ma…

Woke up to a very hot and humid day today, with our first stop being Yi Ma Village to visit the home of Farmer Pan (after getting Noel some tiger balm for his ankle).  Thirteen generations of Mr Pan's family have lived in the house, although the last young ones have left to work in the city.&n…

The last of this group of pictures from Sylvia and David from their trip to China is from the city of Guillin and the wonderful reed flute caves.  They had tried and tried to get a shot without people but never could.  The large group of Chinese visitors ahead of them was just as anxious …

For my last weekend in China, Robin and I flew to a small city in the Mountains in Southern China called Guilin and finally saw what we expected China to be like!  The first day, we took a trip with our hostel to the rice fields.  Our tour started in what they call the "Long Hair Village"…