Back in Guilin

Hello folks. Yesterday we left the city of Guilin at 8am to go to Longshen county and in particular a village in the hills called Ping'An. I will post pictures and movies soon of that. Tommorow we jump on a boat and head 4hours down the Li River to a place called Yanshuo. We'll be there 4 nights, coming to the end of things gradually as after this we'll be on a train to Hong Kong which is our last major destination apart from a night in Singapore on the way back to NZ. Heres a few shots of guilin.

Ping'An - next day

Woke up at 5am hoping to catch the sunrise over the rice terraces but unfortunately it was raining. The village must be quite high as we are within the clouds. Zero visibility so we called it off. I caught a few more hours sleep then got up and took a wander around the village to get some pics and video. The village was nice and quite - tourists other than me either hadnt arrived or were staying in.

The cloud started to thin a bit offering some nice views so I dashed up to the highest point of the village. By this point several bus loads of Chinese tourists had arrived so it offered the chance to get some video of them in action for you. Their enthusiasm for the views was well justified - some dramatic views of surrounding villages, hills and mountains with clouds swirling about. We didnt get the famous views of the miles of rice terraces, however wasnt too disappointed as we've seen similar sites in Vietnam (Sapa), and what we saw today was something totally different.






Ping'An 02 from tgoodwin on Vimeo.