Up and ready for our day of sightseeing. Peter will be our guide while we're in Guilin. Breakfast buffet at the hotel. This hotel is quite nice. I pick up a pamphlet which has information and pictures of the hotel's amenities. Has a swimming pool which Richard likes. Hope we have some time to use it!
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Hotel brochure
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Hotel lobby
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| Rooms |
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Outdoor swimming pool
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We meet in the lobby at 8:00 am. We take a very scenic motor coach ride through the countryside past green fields and rice paddies. We arrive at a local village/Zhujiang Wharf to embark on our
Li River cruise. The river originates from Cat Mountain north of Guilin. It flows down through Guilin, Yangshou, Pingle, and Wuzhou into the West River. This 52 mile trip has many twists and turns. The scenery is awesome-bamboo groves, small villages, fishermen on bamboo rafts, cormorants, water buffalo, soaring karst pinnacles, and mist shrouded peaks. Han Yu, a great poet in Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem praising the beautiful scenery of the Li River. There is a sun deck on the upper level of the boat. We have lunch-buffet-on the boat. There are many other boats like ours on the river. This cruise ends at Yangshou-a small town. We will travel back to Guilin by motor coach.
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Ticket Office
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| Pamphlet |
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Embarkation point
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| Lots of other boats doing this cruise on the Li River |
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| Beautiful! |
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| Water buffalo |
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| Cormorants |
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Postcard I bought showing Li River scene
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We walk through
Yangshou. Board our motor coach to return to Guilin. We make a stop at the
South China Pearl Museum. Here we see a fashion show that highlights pearls. We also are given a demonstration as to how the pearls come about. I do give in buying an almost perfect match set of black pearls-necklace, bracelet, and earrings. I love them!
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| Yangshou |
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| Yangshou |
Back in Guilin we are off to the
Reed Flute Cave filled with stalactites, stalagmites, and other rock formations. This is a natural limestone cave with multicolored artificial lighting for illumination. Over 180 million years old. Gets its name from the type of reed growing outside which can be made into flutes. The grand chamber is known as the Crystal Palace.
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| Crystal Palace |
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| Postcard I bought showing the Crystal Palace |
Back to our hotel. We shower and change. Dinner is at the hotel. Then Richard and I have chosen to do an optional excursion. We walk from our hotel to our meeting point for this 8:00 pm excursion.
Cormorant night fishing. We are on boat where we can observe the fisherman. His cormorants have a sort of collar around their necks. He explains that it's to stop them from eating the fish. The cormorants dive underwater and bring up the fish. At the end of our excursion they are rewarded with some of the fish. Interesting but not a must see excursion. Hard to get good pictures due to it being so dark.
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| Cormorant night fishing |
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