xiii: the old banyan tree looked down on me

Sat 26 Jul 2008 at 5:27 pm  ♥  Filed under Guilin 2008

I’m about to leave for a train to Beijing in less than hour, so it’s back to bad Internet and smoggy weather and memorizing vocab words for me! And I haven’t even finished editing more than half of the Guilin photos. But this should be a start, right? (click for larger view) These are all [...]

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xii: en route to yangshuo

Fri 25 Jul 2008 at 10:50 am  ♥  Filed under Guilin 2008

(click for larger view) On Monday (July 21st), we took a four-hour cruise across Lijiang to the city of Yangshuo. I’m pretty sure I spent the entire four hours out on the deck taking pictures instead of sitting in my assigned seat.

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xi: ’tis a forest of sweet osmanthus!

at 1:14 am  ♥  Filed under Guilin 2008

… and after Moon Hill, we had dinner of Guilin cuisine and a nighttime boat tour across the Lijiang and Peach Blossom River.1 (click for larger view) It’s so refreshing to have clean air, panoramic mountain views, and river water that isn’t brown.2 Oh, and weather conditions that are actually livable! In between the endless [...]

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