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Three days in the soutwest of China. Trip to the province of Guangxi
Once in flight from Guilin to X'Ian for this pause of about three days in the South West as part of a tour in China with 4 well consolidated, tested traveling companions who have been added 5 more. Since China as well as a country also have divided the subcontinent tour as many travel diaries. In this talk the South West.
Arrival in Guilin
We land at the airport in
Guilin which is lunchtime. The city is almost an hour for lunch in the restaurant in the airport. After a bad dining experience of the airport X'Ian feared that the food here might be of poor quality but in spite of the snack during the flight we still hungry so we sit at the table with confidence. The restaurant is big and empty, as X'Ian we are the only customers. The food is not the best but is acceptable. Get to know the guide who will accompany the young Franco, our manager who follow us from day one in Beijing. Your guide to
Guilin is a gentleman of some fifty years, will be prepared culturally and very friendly. Cross for about an hour a country area. From the airplane window as we have already seen from a distance of the famous pinnacles of the region. Before reaching the hotel via
Guilin and reach the Cave of the bamboo flute. We are a short walk from the city but the environment is to open countryside, a path that climbs between limestone rocks we reach the entrance of the cave. Entered unfolds before us a spectacle of stalactites, stalagmites and columns, all very nice but nothing that we can not see cavities also occur in Italy. Indeed formations here are almost all dead and then monochrome, perhaps that's why there is not even a ban on touching thing to us is strictly prohibited. The lack of colors QII in China meet with the artificial lighting that gives stalactites and stalagmites of different tones. Here, as in Italy the popular imagination has been satisfied by giving the strangest forms invented names. The largest part of the cave has a small pool of water and cycles with a show of lights and sounds complete with lasers, smoke machine and bubble! Honestly it seems more to be at Disneyland in a natural cave. Overall, however, the goal is pleasant, the route is short for everyone because the location is easy to accomplish. Once in the city we visit a large store specializing in tea leaves, some of which have undergone a process of aging for decades. The old leaves are pressed into loaves shaped like a move reminiscent of big money. We sit around a table where a servant on the glass makes us taste various teas. Frankly I find this tea is very pleasing for me as a layman is also difficult to distinguish between species. From here we reach the hotel where the suitcases were before us. The Hotel is located in a beautiful location on the shore of a lake that bathe
Guilin. We are welcomed in the lobby with a welcome cocktail. The room is comfortable and the window overlooking the lake you can enjoy a nice panorama. After a short walk around the hotel came in for dinner. E 'planned for the first time since we have a meal in China but unfortunately they are not served Western Mediterranean dishes. There are many German guests and the food is Nordic. However, after days of absence from the plates meet again Copara bread, among other very good for buttering. In the evening we go by bus messoci available for a panoramic tour of
Guilin. First we embark on a barge for a short distance along the Li River to see the famous fishing cormorants. Although the fishing trip is only a pro of tourists is interesting to see this kind of catch that I have often heard of in documentaries. On rudimentary bamboo boats fishermen moving up relying on the bank of the river with a long cane. With them, cormorants and a large wicker basket. Once freed cormorants hunt their prey on the surface are attracted by the light of lights. Identified the fish caught with their beaks, but they can not swallow because it was close his throat with a tape, it is then that the fisherman emptied the bill by dropping fish in a basket. I got off the barge continue our tour along the lakes of the city.
Guilin is considered by a small Chinese town, in fact, when compared to large cities could also be, but for our fees is absurd to call it a town that has seen 800,000 people well! It is a place that has not had a decisive role in the history of the country but thanks to the fantastic scenery of the surroundings is one of the most visited by tourists. That is why in recent years the government has invested a lot in making a piacevoole
Guilin city full of romantic spots. To this end have been built from scratch scenes that recall the ancient imperial architecture, was built pagodas and tea houses, place artificial islands in the lakes and built bridges borrowed from other cultures such as the reduced copy of the Golden Gate in San Francisco. We manage to peek through the trees along the road, the hill of the trunk of an elephant and then we stop on the edge of the lake to take pictures of pagodas lit. The colored lights make the atmosphere pleasantly surreal backdrop of a neighborhood reconstruction of imperial China. And 'this really beautiful
Guilin, will also be many artifacts for tourists, but fascinating. During the return descend at a typical local market and junk food but surprisingly heavy rainfall so hastily reach the hotel for overnight. Tomorrow we expect the cruise on the Li River and we must simply hope that Jupiter outbursts during the night.
Cruising along Li river
We wake up early for breakfast, again abundant. The hotel is perhaps the most elegant of the entire trip to China and is a bustle of people, not only foreigners but also local weddings are celebrated here. Hoped to see the lakeside seniors engaged in Tai Chi but the weather is gloomy and the banks are still deserted. By bus messoci available to reach Cooping where is the landing boats. Once the cruise start in the city for some years but prefer to do it from here because the best things begin to see in this area. The boat is a big barge rather spartan interior where you can see the landscape through the windows sit comfortably. There are, however to do some detour on the terraces where the view extends to 360 degrees. Before us siapre a fairy land of green needles that take from time to time special physiognomy. We pass small fishing villages and fields for grazing. Unfortunately there is more traffic here than on the ring road of Milan, boats of all sizes ply the calm waters of the Li River. We do not know how the kitchen of our boat but we see those of other boats, and considering that soon we will have lunch we are rightly worried. On these media cruise dishes are prepared on the terraced stern, the water for cooking and washing dishes dirattamente is pumped from the river and the large cylindrical kettles where they cook the food are not the best dell'igene. The spectacle of nature that shows itself in our eyes distracts us from evil thoughts as the boat gently continues navigation. Before reaching the final goal of the cruise, we are served lunch, one of the worst of our trip to China. Even the shrimp that I paid as extras are a disappointment. Among other things to drink beer is only provided for not drinking alcohol remain dry. We arrive in the village of
Yangshuo, an ancient group of houses overlooking sulfiume. It 'all very characteristic but too turisticizzato. We use the time at leisure to walk the crowded streets of the town, a long string of shops and stalls offering everything from silk to food, from musical instruments to breast phallic! Near the pier there is the usual marketplace of junk where it is interesting to engage in lengthy negotiations to extract a good price. With a train on rubber reach the outskirts of
Yangshuo where we wait for our bus. Left the country with the guide to stop insisting on a bridge which offers a better perspective on dele fiumre Li and his "stacks." We're not the only ones who think that the place is charming, there are couples who come here to be photographed. This bridge is an unexpected window on a beautiful corner of rural China: plowed fields, steeples, a cormorant fisherman who ply the river on a small boat of bamboo canes and even a farmer with lots of grazing cows. The lives of local flows on the river but also above, on that bridge seemingly insignificant passing motorcycles laden to capacity, improbable means, tractors, farmers and wives. We leave this place and enthusiasts continue to
Guilin crossing an area of rice fields surrounded by the inevitable pinnacles. This region is really beautiful and not by chance that the Chinese consider it the most natural expression of their vast country, the stereotype of how to carry their works of art. Even for me that I have visited other stunning landscapes around the world is so much emotion. If the Americans are beautiful canyon for their majesty,
Guilin is fascinating because it is charming. Yan during the trip, our guide in
Guilin, more surprisingly, is not only available to meet our requirements, but also culturally prepared a very good singer. With some missing R performs his repertoire of songs in Italian and Chinese involve everyone. Yan Bravo!
Before coming to visit
Guilin, as usual on this trip, a factory of jewelry in pearls. Compared to those seen in Beijing that they were freshwater pearls of the sea and therefore more valuable. Do not buy anything but I observe with pleasure to a beautiful Chinese girls steal away, exposing the jewelry to encourage the purchase.
Once in the city we visit the Hill Fubo climbing up to the first terrace.
Guilin day view is not as fascinating as the night but it is interesting to observe how the limestone pinnacles contornino the city by extending its ramifications to the center. A crack introduced into the heart of the hill where a temple is arranged rock complete with Buddhist statues carved into the rock. Return to hotel for dinner, this time there is any Italian dish, is cooked just like us but it's still good. In the evening we go out for a walk to the food stalls where dishes are cooked unknown to us. In the afternoon the guide told us that here we eat dogs and rats but fortunately do not see them. From here we reach the lake through culverts and enter in the romantic feature pagoda that houses the home to you. We settle on the terrace overlooking the lake lit by colored lights that make it magical. In China, tea culture that is similar to that in Italy we have for wine, tea houses are like our wineries and the leaves are older. There are several qualità di you and the price is higher or lower depending on quality. Keep in mind that often a good tea costs more than a restaurant. For us outsiders is difficult to distinguish the various grades and often end up mistaken for hot water sought after infusions. Here too we can not appreciate the taste of what we drink, I end up pulling into the lake and who knows what he must have thought the young girl as our sommelier there that had served so carefully heating the cups and mixing together various infusions. Surprising that the bill is rather exorbitant, but we regret not to be immersed in this important aspect of Chinese custom. Return to the hotel a happy hard day in this beautiful corner of the world.