The China Chronicles Day 7 & 8 - Guilin & YangShuo - Mobile Photo Edition

The next few days would be busy. I knew what i wanted to do but not to sure how to go about it.
All ideas had to wait till I booked my train ticket to Kunming. That will gauge how much time we had to explore. I travel on a tight schedule see as much as a i can and getting a sample of what the country has to offer.











View from the honeymoon suit @ How Hostel!





I tend to always carry water tablets. Who knows when you might use it.
I often use it at night when i dont have any drinkable water and have to drink tap water









I tend to not visit large cities and prefer to explore for more local and smaller cities where most tourists don't visit. I want to see a different side of China and not the usual Shanghai and Terracotta warrior and Great Wall of China. I know they are amazing and many people go for that reason.
But i want to do something different.

















Only one night in our honey moon suite. Checking out to move on to Yangshuo.

I can relax now ticket is booked now the next step.


Guilin to Kunming Train Ticket.
Soft sleeper. You need to provide a passport when buying a train ticket.





  Hostel booked and ready to role.

















Last meal before the bus ride. Super hot beef dish. I think it was beef and chilliz
Bus ticket from Guilin to Yangshuo.


















Arrived at Yangshuo. Again we got stuck with only one big bed @_@ Room was clean and nice. Accommodation was very remote. Maybe 20min walk from city. But it was nice and quiet

Wait for the bus 

Arrived at Yangshuo. No idea how to go our accommodation

Qingming Festival or Grave Sweeping. All day we heard firecrackers exlpoding.

You want some Kangfu hair dryer?

View from our hostel.

Typical scenery in Guilin. Very mysterious

Stone Bridge in Yangshuo and HOW! Hostel in Guilin.

River cruise from Yangshuo to Xingping and beyond.

You couldn't take a boat from Yangshuo to Guilin due to some argument between the boat people.

So we went halfway by boat then the other half by illegal bus.

Which pretty much mean you flag down any bus and scream where u going and see if they nod their head. They take a cash payment for you to get on the bus and sit on the floor. 

The journey continues:
#Guilin
[Day 7 F]
-> Solo Walkabout - Purchased train tickets to Kunming (~24hr journey) - 1 day
-> Purchased painting and drank tea :) - chose not to pay entrance to the elephant trunk tour
-> Late bus to Yangshuo then Taxi/TukTuk to hotel (we couldn't find our bearings,  confusing town!)

#Yangshuo
[Day 8 S]
-> Bamboo Raft to Fuli
-> Light shows
-> Silver Caves

The China Chronicles Day 6 - Jiuzhaiguo -> Chengdu -> Guilin - Mobile Photo Edition

#Chengdu
[Day 6 T]
-> RnR - Shahid not feeling well, waiting for flight to Guilin - Arrived in Guilin late at night

Even though Jiuzhaiguo seems really close on the map, IT IS NOT! in may only be 400km or so away from Chengdu but due to the mountain roads this takes all day.

I believe it was 8hours or so travel time @_@

Couldn't wait to get back to Chengdu and just stretch our legs after staying on the bus all day.

Back to Mix ^_^

Meet Elaine!














Not many Australians around in Chengdu, we were known as Australia and Dollar lol




























We couldn't figure out what bowl of dumplings to order. There were 6 flavors. At 1 dollar a bowl lets order them all! From Sichuan style spicy to sour and sweet. Amazing how different each were.







A cake shop! I must check it out. According to my local friend Chengdu is becoming expensive and a lot more fancy modernized shops are appearing.
The average worker finds it really hard to save money.















No need for Health n Safety in China. If you stupid then you should be dead.






















Local fruit n cakes. We had a mini party while we waited for our plane to Guilin.

















 We made it!














 This plane has TVs OMG. Not even Airasia has that.
 Going through the airport was simple. I feel they figure out you have no idea whats going on. haha

The China Chronicles Day 3,4 & 5 - Jiuzhaiguo/Peacock Lake - Mobile Photo Edition

#Jiuzhaiguo
[Day 3 M, 4 T and 5 W]
-> Travel to Jiuzhaigou [1 of 3 days]
-> Jiuzhaiguo [1 of 3 days]
-> Tibet Minority Villages [1 of 3 days]



No seats on the bus ;)









Our ticket and map ^_^





The reason to visit Jiuzhaiguo is that some people believe with global warming is will be a thing of the past.
Every year the water is lower and lower.

I couldn't believe how busy it was @_@ It was due to some Chinese holiday.

We had dinner with the locals. It was some Tibet bbq? Very interesting and unique flavours.
Yaks butter tea, bone marrow soup, spicy lamb and a range of vegetables. I wasn't to sure what half the stuff was.

Only way to dry our clothes ^_^

I believe the flags have written scripture on them. They are prayer flags according to wiki

Yak Jerky - Expensive but delicious ^_^ worth trying

I believe we were stuck in a traffic jam for a couple hours. It looked like some truck lost its brakes and rolled back into another track which then rolled into another @_@

a friend recommended this Cafe in Chengdu. As you can't find a proper coffee in China.

More local snacks >>




<< White flowers

I didn't realise we were so high, I believe in excess of 3500M. The snow had covered everything over night. It was beautiful. We were originally going to stop in Songpan to do a horse trek but we thought we should carry on and explore more of China rather than getting stuck in Sichuan.