GUILIN
Tour Guide: Lancy
Driver: Mr. Lu
Reed Flute Cave
A limestone cave with lots of stalactites and stalagmites lit up in many colors.
Elephant Trunk Hill
This is called Elephant Trunk hill because they think it looks like an elephant with its trunk extending into the river (Lijiang River).
We paid a little old lady to let Shane take a picture with her birds :)
Half way up the hill.
Aren't those limestone mountains AMAZING!?! They were everywhere!
Acrobatic Show
This little girl could practically fold her body in half.
For about $10 each Shane and I enjoyed an HOUR long foot, leg, and shoulder massage. It was AWESOME!
Guilin Park Hotel
Guilin loves to light up their city at night. This was the hotel we stayed in.
Here's a view from our hotel room.
We took a 4 hour cruise down the Li River. Can you believe those mountains are REAL?!
These guys would paddle right up to our boats, hook on, and try to sell us food & crafts.
This cruise was ABSOLUTELY BREATHTAKING!!! It almost felt like a dream.
Our tour guide.
This scene of mountains is on their $20 bill. We ended up buying a big scroll with this scene on it. I'm so excited to hang it when we get to Colorado.
I am SOOOOOOOOO glad we added Guilin to our trip. It was AMAZING!
Traffic in China is NUTS! I give them props for having painted lines and street lights, but other than that...it is crazy! In order to cross a big road (usually no lights) you have to inch your way out until you win. Shane and I would close our eyes every time we had to go through an intersection or round about. Luckily, we had drivers the whole time that knew how to deal with the craziness.
A bag of "live" frogs or turtles anyone???
They just hang their meet up until someone buys it. These were at least cooked...most are raw.
We saw a ton of these cars with motors on the front. They were hilarious.
Every time we drove through a toll booth I felt like we were going to Disneyland with all the ribbons and flags.
The Kids
OHHH...it was SO FUN returning home to the kids. It's amazing how much more you miss them when you are not with them all the time.
We gave Tia an Empress Crown & Owl purse. She was so excited she had to "pose" with them!
Our kids LOVE to do projects so we bought them both these Terracotta Warriors that they had to chisel out of sand. They had so much fun.
These ended up being our Christmas tree ornaments for 2011.
We can't say THANKS enough to those that made this trip possible (the Bartons & the Davids for watching our kids, my parents, ZAMA ITT). You guys are amazing! This was seriously the BEST trip we've ever been on!!!
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