My first vacation in China ,Guilin

Today,We were going to enjoy the world known scenic spots, “Fubo Hill,Reed Flute Cave and Elephant Trunk Hill” Lily said, proudly.Guilin is a city built inside the mountains, very special in few, narrow roads,lower bulidings in China style. it is likely to find a hill turned a corner, next corner is a bridge and so on. Some of these Hills in distance are naturally, some are man-made sculptures, like the Elephant Trunk Hill, drilling work. These sites constitute a very special beautiful city, Guilin.All of the mountains in Guilin is empty, Lily said that how many mountains in Guilin, so as to holes. This is why so many attractions in Guilin are caves because karst terrain.These kind water soluble rocks formated the landscape here. At noon we went to a roadside restaurant, Lily pointed the Guilin style food, Guilin beer fish, Guilin vegetables and pachyrhizus. Of course they are delicious. So pity that Jeff wasn,t here for he is really like this kind food with beer.September 22Li river to Yangshuo.Li river cruise is really a worthwhile trip, the simple, completely pure, crystal Lijiang River with clear reflection of the Mountains shadow, overlapped mountains in distance, exactly likes travelling in the traditional Chinese painting. Sitting in the cabin, blowing breeze, I really hope that this is a dream, not wake up any more.Around 1:00 pm we arrived at Yangshuo, Yangshuo is like a magnified Bar Street, especially the West Street, fulling of bars with tables outside, menu in English, fluent English speaking staff, small hotels with computers. Westerners sit in twos or threes to chat. An unknown small river runs through the streets. After checked in Ai Yuan hotel in West Street, Lily and Chen drove away, gave us one free day to explore Yangshuo. Excitement is much more than worry, because here are many Westerners and the locals speak English too, I am not afraid to get lost.September 23.Lazy day of sitting in the bar with Christian drinking beer in the morning.Afternoon, we rented a bike,and paid a local guide to guide us the scenic spots around. Unfortunately, the happy time is so short, have to back hotel after finished Yulong River Bamboo rafting.September 24Morning, Lily and Chen picked us from hotel, today's destination is the Dragon's Back terraced fields. To be honest, not really looking forward to the terrace, fear of car sickness on nearly 1 hour mountain roads.Terraced Fields is really the witness of the Chinese hard working people. It is really hard to imagine how these people hewed the forest and planted the rice at the peaks since 600 years’ago, really admire these great work, and perhaps only the Chinese can do such hard work, such as the Great Wall.The food here is also very fragrantLocal ethnic cooking likes to burn the rice and chicken in bamboo.So feeling a little bamboo fragrance in eating. This feeling is very difficult to find in other parts of late.Close to evening, we drive back to Guilin. Very grateful to Lily and Chen, Until we come to the line of the security Check,they left. we were really grateful, for you are such a meticulous and thoughtful service, our vacation was really wonderful and comfort.