Guilin

16-18 MAY 2014

Mountains along the Li River south of Guilin form a classic landscape of China, so iconic that they are featured on their 20 RMB note.

 Guilin itself has many beautiful sites, a great riverwalk with several parks right along the main drag, including Elephant Trunk Hill.

 

                                                      Nice ears.

 The cruise boats are not all this nice.  We had lunch onboard.

 They had lunch also, I'm guessing.

At the end of that cruise we took rides on these rafts, poled along by hardy boatmen.  And then the skies opened up with thunder and lightning -- very, very frightening.

Our guy hid us under a tree during the worst of the storm.  We were still quite damp.  Enough.  Back to the docks.

Here's Reid returning after the rain.

And a half-drowned wedding party.

 The bridge at the embarkation point is many hundreds of years old.

That evening we saw an interesting show put on along the riverbank, "Impressions."  A Princess love story.

Sort of like Disney meets Cirque du Soleil.