China Entry the Seventeenth: Back to Hong Kong
We may be ending the trip tonight, but that doesn't mean we can't see as much as possible today. We are picked up by our "English-Speaking" guide at 10:00am and head out. First activity, a motorboat ride on the river so that we can see Elephant Trunk Rock which is, not surprisingly, a rock shaped like an elephant's trunk. We love the motorboat ride! We get to see all of the riverside portions of Guilin, including the Old Town Wall, the local fisherman and the town's sort of famous bridge.
As a bonus, it's Dragon Boat Festival time. We do pull a total foreign devil moment. The boat driver gets very close to the celebratory dragon boat during the actual ceremony so that the white women tourists can snap lots of photos! Awesome!
The next stop on the trip are the reed flute caves. If you like stalactites and stalamytes then you'll love it here! It is quite lovely, though I have no good pictures to show you. Sorry!
If you're in Guilin, skip the South Sea Pearl museum. Not worth it!
Our final stop for the day is the palace at solitary beauty point, which is mostly a reconstruction of the original palace. Our guide's name is David and he is wonderful. He know absolutely everything about the palace and its history and the surrounding area. He is also the sweetest boy ever. I wish he had been our guide for the entire day! We loved David, and we loved solitary beauty point. It was a great part of the day.
And then, lunch. At KFC! No joke. But never has a chicken burger (or two) and a cup of coffee tasted so good.
And with that, pretty much, Guilin sadly ends for us. At the airport, we all reminisce about our favorite, not so favorite, and funniest parts of the trip. Arriving in Hong Kong, I say words that I never thought I would hear myself say: "I'm so glad to be back in Hong Kong." I'm glad of that even as I watch them shoot radar guns at our heads as we come through customs in order to take our temperatures so we won't bring bird flu into the country.
We kiss Ho goodbye in the airport, and even though we won't fly out right away, that signifies the end of the trip. And...I'm not ready.
As a bonus, it's Dragon Boat Festival time. We do pull a total foreign devil moment. The boat driver gets very close to the celebratory dragon boat during the actual ceremony so that the white women tourists can snap lots of photos! Awesome!
The next stop on the trip are the reed flute caves. If you like stalactites and stalamytes then you'll love it here! It is quite lovely, though I have no good pictures to show you. Sorry!
If you're in Guilin, skip the South Sea Pearl museum. Not worth it!
Our final stop for the day is the palace at solitary beauty point, which is mostly a reconstruction of the original palace. Our guide's name is David and he is wonderful. He know absolutely everything about the palace and its history and the surrounding area. He is also the sweetest boy ever. I wish he had been our guide for the entire day! We loved David, and we loved solitary beauty point. It was a great part of the day.
And then, lunch. At KFC! No joke. But never has a chicken burger (or two) and a cup of coffee tasted so good.
And with that, pretty much, Guilin sadly ends for us. At the airport, we all reminisce about our favorite, not so favorite, and funniest parts of the trip. Arriving in Hong Kong, I say words that I never thought I would hear myself say: "I'm so glad to be back in Hong Kong." I'm glad of that even as I watch them shoot radar guns at our heads as we come through customs in order to take our temperatures so we won't bring bird flu into the country.
We kiss Ho goodbye in the airport, and even though we won't fly out right away, that signifies the end of the trip. And...I'm not ready.
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