Location: Yangshuo and Guilin, Guangxi province, China
Time: Oct, 21-24, 2008
The long expected graduation trip finally came, us graduates extremely excited for the past few days. The reasons are,
1st, people say Guilin has the best landscape in the world.
2nd, It's a 3- day trip 600 kilometers away, 5 meals and 2 nights' accomodation included. And what makes it more exciting is this trip basically costs 350 Yuan, that's 50 USD or so.
3rd, the whole class is going.
On this trip I took some pics with my own cellphone, well I had some classmates with digital cameras. It goes without saying the pics they took are definitely clearer and more professional, reflecting the way it's. What a pity, they are not at my hands now.
Prelude of the trip, pictures i took on the way there, through the bus window

This hill is so sharp and towery, surrouded by vast farm in the season of harvest. The window is not so clear.
hills behind hills.
So this is Li Jiang River. There are many sight-seeing boats for tourists to take a closer look at this wonder place. Cuz it feels quite different seeing from the perspective of a moving boat. The flowing water was crystal clear, and u can see float grass on the riverbed.
A complete cruise from Guilin to Yangshuo will last hours, becuz it's a very long river. Allong the river were very high hills, u hv to raise ur head up high to see the tops.
A natural painting of landscape unrolls as the boat goes on.
This cruise lasted 1 hours or so, and we took many many photos. Our faces almost got numb for the long time of smile and laughters.

At night we checked in a local hotel. After dinner we hang out for a walk and shopping. You have to be ready all the time for illuminated stone hills that jump in your sight. Very beatiful, I snapped this scene on the street.

There is a very famous pedestrian street named " West street", 西街 in Chinese. The street was full of people, stuffs, bars. What impressed me much is there are many foreigners, and even local venders can speak very good english. A friend walking with me said, " Shame on me."

Very delicate handicrafts. Watch your wallet, becuz you feel like buying it every time u hv it in your hands.
The next morning we went to a cave. What's in it??? !! This gate reminds me of "The Journey to the West ".

What a shock.
This is not waterfall, believe it or not, it's of stone. For some complicated geographical reasons it formed this way through the past thousands years. Really spectacular !!
Don't raise your head if you are a chick. This ceiling will probably frighten u.. you see, is it falling down on you?

Let's get sth pleasant....

More pleasant...

So this is Guilin City. Honestly I prefer Guangzhou. : ))
