A DAY IN LONG SHENG

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This was our tour of the other side of Guilin and the mountains on the other side. It was a long and wonderful day, with lots and lots of climbing. I am going to publish this and will come back to add more to the pictures layout later. We have been working here at Fat Daddy's where there is free wireless internet, for 4 hours and now it is time to go enjoy the beach.

Love all of you lots, Dana The bus we went on this 10 hour trip. The tour guide could speak English, it was great.

The little down who had all these things for tourest.

A picutre of the rice fields we were going to visit.

More little twons and farms we drove past Every extra piece of ground is used for gardening.

Going higher into the mountains.

Getting ready to climb to the top.

At this point I decided to not climb to the top and dad went on with the new video camera.

You could ride up and down to the top of the hill for about 200 RBV - about $24.

There farm animals are at the bottom of the houses. Everything is build with lumber here.

I stayed with these ladies and bought a bag and then sewed it so it fit around my shoulders.

The only had two needles. One was really bad.

Going back down the mountain = we though this would be fun to build at the Homestead.

GUILIN: BAMBOO BOAT RIDE

DONKEY BURGER?



This hamburger tasted like a Donkey Burger, seasoned and mixed with something like Yak Meat. Actually it was Water Buffalo. It was certainly interesting to taste and to get down. The meat was kind of nasty. Looks Good though eh? We brought our own bottle of Heinz ketchup, so with a generous amount on each bite, it went down just fine. Dana had spagehtti.



Let's take a ride up river.

It was Sunday, and we just went for a quiet boat ride up the river to a farm, got out and went for a walk across the island to take a photo of the other side of Elephant mountain and the river there.

Nice boat ride, on Dana this time.

Famers fields were growing wonderfully in the middle of the winter here...

Got a bamboo pole for this photo. We had a great time together here. This is a continuing "Gypsie Journal" now...

Bamboo Fishing boat, on dry dock.

This was a mistake... But sometime, you gotto go. We had to go potty when on land, and had to go in the farmer's outhouse... Not for the squeemish or for children viewing... move along quickly. Not exactly like our two seater out house in Alberta, where I grew up eh?

People live here. This was a step back in time, and a wonderful cultural experience for us. We replaxed and sailed up river.

We gotta make one of these for the Homestead in Island Park... They are cool people movers and work in shallow water...

We found a great American food place to eat in Guilin. It had a great sirloin steak, which I later learned was water buffalo. Good Water Buffalo though lean, and juicy and well cooked to medium rare. It was great.

ELEPHANT ROCK, GUILIN, CHINA

Guilin, China:



These young ladies at Elephant Head Mountain, were recruiting tourists to take their photo with them for a heafty fee. They were very nice until you said "No thanks".



At Elephant, we saw lots of boating opportunities for a fee. We took one the next day. We walked around the mountain and viewed the Elephant head from the opposite side. We stayed until dark and enjoyed the sunset here.

We had some fun taking photos here at the Elephant Head Park.

The other side of the Elephant Head Mountain.

Guilin: An artist's rendition, Jay shot a photo of... It really looks like this!

Jay peeking out of the Bamboo Forest.

At Night at the Elephant Head Mountain.

This PUMA business seems to be doing great in China. They sometimes spell their name wrong on shirts I have noticed...but my English students rationalize that this allows the business to even make more money. I THINK NOT.

We came upon this leaky building at night in "Guilin" as we were walking around down town. It was in the large plaza and we watched it for a while to some catchy tunes. It certainly surprised us to see a Hotel Waterfall.

Watch the short video clip below...to believe it.

SANYA, HAINAN ISLAND, CHINA

TROPICAL VACATION -- IN SOUTHERN CHINA.


When I was younger and living in Hawaii my sister, Laree, and I would go to Honolulu and sit in the big totel lobbies and sea view verandas and look at the old tourists and we would sometimes laugh about how much they looked like funny looking tourists. Now, I have become one of them, and the Chinese love to look at me and I see them smile and sometimes a even a laugh appears on their face. I have come full circle. I remember, long ago, doing exactly the same.





This is the hall of the 5th floor of the Relac Inn Hotel we stayed in. It was really bright and had this wonderfull ocean decore but far from the beach. Jay in in our room by the window. Dana is getting ready to head to our new place. We are moving today.




This is the Relax Inn Hotel lobby...and below is the front entrance.

When we left Jinan, we had two rolling bags and a small carry on. 3 weeks later we have managed to add another whole bage worth of stuff, most of which I think we could throw away, but probably won't. We waited outside or our hotel for a taxi. None came along and then we saw this mode of transportation and knew we needed to ride in it. He said he would take us for one yuan each. but it was worth much more to us as we laughed about it all the way. We really plalyed the gypsie role today.

Half way to our testination would not go any farther. He stopped and motioned for us to get out and we thought we would have to walk the rest of the way, and pull our bags for about 5 long blocks. Then just like that, another guy came along and stopped for us, we loaded everything in, and we were off to our ultimate destination.

Jay wrote on the back seat of the motorcycle. And before we knew it we were at the beach, looking like old tourists, again, much like the one's I used to see in Hawaii.

Now it off to another place to live for week, an studio apartment this time. We are went to this American food place to eat yesterday called, "Fat Daddys" and met this wonderful owner of the place. He is from Ft. Collins, Colorado and we mentioned that we were hunting for a new hotel that was a little cheeper. He said that it spring festival and spring vacation and there weren't very many empty spaces anywhere, especially one for a good price. After a while, he made us an American breakfast that was wonderful and then he said that he had a friend who would let us rent his studion apartment for 300 RMB per day if we stayed the week. We spent the day exploring the city and came back for dinner. At 7:00 pm he took us to see the apartment. It was new and very nice with a kitchen and a washing machine and a soft bed, and so now we are waiting to go there. His taking us in his car.