China Travel Stories

Longsheng Terraced Fileds

Date: 2008-9-19 3:12:00 by chinatravel Tags: Guilin

It is hard to imagine anywhere in the People's Republic untouched by civil engineers, the levelers of history. But truly nowhere else in China has life remained perfectly intact - culturally and naturally - as on the Dragon's Backbone in the rural villages of Longsheng county is southwest China.

While Guangxi Autonomous Region's one-two punch of geological wonders are provincial si

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Guilin Trip

Date: 2008-8-27 22:56:00 by chinatravel Tags: Guilin travel

When we arrived in Guilin the first time we were met outside of baggage by a young girl claiming to have a taxi. After wheeling and dealing we followed her to her car, where her husband was waiting. We got into the car having blind faith, turns out she was a tour guide but didn't drive, hence her husband. We struck a deal for a guided tour the next day, she took us all over including a traditio

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I Have Travelled Li River on that May Day Holiday

Date: 2008-8-24 22:45:00 by andy yen Tags: Guilin Li River

Li River, situated in Guilin City of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is a bright pearl in China and it is the highlight of sightseeing in Guilin. And the 83-km-long waterway from Guilin to Yangshuo is the most famous of Li River. Along the waterway are rolling hills, steep cliffs, fantastic caves, leisure boats and green bamboos as well as some tourism interests. It is said that traveling Li

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My Guilin Experience

Date: 2008-8-9 1:07:00 by shirllo Tags: Guilin

I visited Guilin three years ago and stayed at the Lijiang Waterfall Hotel. It was a fabulous 5-star hotel with a unique nightly display of artificial waterfalls cascading down the front of the building. Their breakfast buffet was fabulous and plentiful: with a wide variety of fresh fruits, pastries, jook (Chinese congee), dim sum, omelette, waffle and noodle stations, sushi, drinks, and much much

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Guilin, the most beautiful city I have ever seen

Date: 2008-4-9 4:53:00 by Dean Tags: Guilin

History and nature has endowed china with many places of ultimate lure thus enabling us to partly fulfill our dream of exploring natural wonders. Our destination is Guilin, a world famous city. Guilin requires at least one week but we only had 4 days. So before our trip, we had the highlights at the back of our mind. Our flight from Hong Kong was smooth and short. All the while I kept my eyes o

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