Guilin Day 3

Walking along the street nearby our hotel and we found a noodle shop with lots of people. Curious, we went to have a look and ordered what the locals eat.

Noodles with soup.

Dry noodles. Well.. both taste very plain to me.

We then have a walk around the lake enjoying the view of the 2 pagoda.

Feeling bored, we walk back to hotel and book a half day tour to Li Shan Jie Village.

Cultural things doesn't really interested me though.

We end our trip with a boat cruise along 2 river and 4 lakes.

The boat cruise is quite worthy because there's a lot to see during the 1.5 hour boat ride.

Overall, Guilin doesn't really impressed me much. Yangshou did. If you plan to have a trip to Guilin - Yangshou, I would suggest you to spend more days in Yangshou or perhaps extend it to Long Jing.

This trip is quite budget as well, as overall usage for 4D3N cost damage of about RM600/ pax only.

Guilin - Yangshou Day 2: Part 2

We had our lunch at hotels' cafe again before depart back to Guilin.

Mix Vegie.

Curry Beef.

The famous dish in Yangshou - Beer Fish! Taste ok only but a lot of bones.

We arrived Guilin about 3pm and have a stroll around the small city after check in to our hotel. We stayed in Guilin Sapphire Hotel which cost RM332 for 2 night. Room consist of 3 single bed.

We arrived Zhong Shan Zhong Lu. There is an area with food stalls. We tried a few of their junk foods.

Grill Sotong, China style. It tasted the same with those I had in Shenzhen.

We walk to river bank and had a boat ride to Elephant Trunk Hill. The boat ride cost RMB75 for 3 of us, after bargaining. Of course, we are not allow to go into the hill. We just allowed to watch it from our boat. There is entrance fees to enter Elephant Trunk Hill, which we did not invest on.

When the night comes, stalls are set up along the road in front of our hotel. 

And we had this as dinner from the streets. Not manage to finish it up due to I'm unable to accept the taste.

And that's for Day 2 of our trip.

Guilin - Yangshou Day 2: Part 1

Good Morning Yangshou~

Waking up to fresh air :)

We grab our quick breakfast from hotel's cafe.

Xiu long bao.. which is not the normal xiu long bao I had. This is mini bun. Yikes.

English Breakfast. Normal.

Our tour for today is Li River Rafting. We booked the tour with our hotels' tour desk. Cost RMB150/ pax.

This tour bring us to the mountains printed on RMB20 note.

Just get calm and enjoy the scenery :)

Arriving at a stop, where all the tour boats will park and tourist hop down.

After enjoying some fried foods (which is not so healthy and delicious actually), we hop back to our boats and back to Yangshou.

Arriving at Yangshou, we had a walk along West Street. We bought some souvenirs before heading back to check out and back to Guilin.

Guilin-Yangshou Day 1

Survivor trip of 3 banana to Guilin, China. 

I wanted to visit Yangshou after viewing the beauty of Yangshou scenery pictures seen posted by friends at FB. Yangshou didn't disappointed me though.

So, how to get to Yangshou?

 From Guilin airport, we took the airport bus (RMB20/pax) and stop in front of Swan Hotel (first stop of the bus). After asking around for direction, we were guided to Guilin Train Station which is about 10 minutes walk. We were supposed to walk further down (another 10 minute) to Guilin Bus Station to take a bus to Yangshou but due to no energy (lack of sleep, scorching hot sun, heavy luggage) .. we just took the express bus to Yangshou from Guilin Train Station. It cost RMB20 each and took about 1.5 hour to reach Yangshou bus station. We then using the small map we collected from airport to guide our way to Riverview Hotel. I'm so proud that we did find our way! Although it includes anger and temper.

We found you!

Room for 3 pax cost RMB180, which is a great deal. Room condition is OK and receptionist are very friendly and helpful. After check in, we immediately book our tour with the hotel. Due to very limited time in Yangshou, we have to stuff our schedule which is not too good. It is advisable that you consider staying longer in Yangshou rather than Guilin. We did a mistake here.

After a quick shower, we 'da bao' our lunch from hotels' restaurant and make our way to our first tour.

This is our lunch that we had to had it in bus.

Arriving our first tour place - Silver Cave. We book from hotel tour desk which cost RMB80/ pax. Second and last tour of the day depart from hotel at 2.30pm.

The walk inside the cave was tiring. The walk is leaded by tour guide and takes 1 hour. At first, I thought 1 hour was quite a short tour, but it ends up 1 hour is sufficient due to it's quite tiring for us.

We tried out the fried tofu. So-so only.

When we reach hotel at 6.30pm, we then immediately board the next bus to Liu Shan Jie Performance. See how rush was us?! @@

Tour to Liu Shan Jie Performance was booked with hotel tour desk as well and cost RMB200/pax.

We tried the yam cake. Yucks.

The back drop of the performance, which indeed.. was a natural scenery. Looks very artistic, isn't?

We were shock that there were soooo many people. People mountain people sea.

After sitting awhile, my back bone is aching due to the chair design which is unable to lean on. I would suggest you to buy the first class seat because at least you can rest your backbone during the 1.5 hour performance.

That's all for Day 1. I was so tired that I don't even have energy for dinner.