Yangshuo in a nutshell Feels like: Palma de Mallorca in the village center. Paradise in the countryside, on a sunny day. What to do: cycling, rock climbing, hiking, going on river cruises and bamboo raft cruises. But all that is more fun when the weather is nice. Where to stay: We stumbled upon a real “Fawlty Towers Hotel”! If we had known that before, we definitely would have booked there (well, at least one night…) Where to eat: West…
When you come with low expectations to a place, it’s likely you get pleasantly surprised. So it was with Guilin. A Canadian couple we had met in Mongolia had told us, Guilin wouldn’t really be worth staying long, we should quickly find our way to nearby Yangshou, which was supposed to be much more beautiful. But it turned out, the city is actually quite nice, it’s a small town (well, for China anyway, only roundabout five million inhabitants), and…
Roundabout thousandonehundred kilometers and only five and a half hours on the train after we had left Beijing, we arrived in Xi’An. To cover this distance would have taken at least 24 hours on the Transsiberian Train. Luckily, we took China’s high speed bullet-train, called “G-Train”, which flew with 300 kilometres an hour past big and growing cities that no one has ever heard of who hasn’t been to China. Xi’An is just another eight and a half-million-people-metropolis. There…