Saturday, September 13, 2008
Well, today, I'm gonna be your guide to Guilin! Haha! Just kidding. Anyway, I went to Guilin on the 2nd of September while waiting for my school to reopen. I had never gone to Guilin before but many birds told me that Guilin is a very beautiful place to visit, with astonishing hills and unbelievably, natural caves. That really caught my attention as I'm a person who enjoys visiting mother nature's creative work of art.
First, we took the evening flight from Kuching to Kuala Lumpur. We took Air Asia and we landed at LCCT. Our flight to Guilin was actually at 6am the next morning so we killed our night at the airport. At first, everything seemed okay for us as we reached KL at around 10pm and we just had to wait for 7 hours. 7 HOURS! Tiffiny and I actually spent half of the 7 hours in McDonald, while watching movie via PPStream. Gosh, LCCT improved alot in their WiFi system because the internet speed was very fast. 1-2MB per sec. For the second half of the 7 hours, we did nothing but strolling around the whole airport. From the restaurants till the dark alleys. I didn't sleep for the whole 7 hours because I had some kind of experience when I was waiting for my early flight in Macau. I didn't sleep and I still have to energy to do lots of stuffs. I didn't even feel cold or uneasy when I stayed awake. But when I started to close my eyes for a 1 minute short rest, I could feel my body heat dropping and I started to shiver and became dozy.
Anyway, we waited patiently for our flight and we boarded our flight at 6am sharp. I heard rumours saying that our flight from KL o Guilin was the first flight line for AirAsia and we might be welcomed as honorable guests when we reached Guilin. The flight was full and after we settled our luggages, I got myself comfortable and took a nap. The flight was approximately 4 hours so it was quite boring in the flight.
We ordered one Nasi Lemak in the airplane. I saw what Kennysia commented about it so I decided to have a try myself. Kennysia, you are right. The thing you ordered looked completely different from the pictures. The Nasi Lemak tasted alright, but it just don't worth it. Seeing is unbelieving.
We received some gifts from the authorities. Nothing much, just a few guide books in pretty bags.
Here's the Guilin International Airport in LiJiang, Guilin.
Heading towards our tour van.
Here we are, our tour van, with my father's name tagged.
Some of the photos I took during our journey to Guilin's city centre.
My c702 camera did this fence-bending effect...
And we saw this bird-looking hill on the way.
This is the rich people's villa. The whole villa was actually built on a man-made isle in the middle of a lake.
We were going to have our lunch and it took us around half an hour to reach our designated restaurant, Rong Hu Restaurant 榕湖酒店. Our tour guide told us that we were going to have Guilin Bee Hoon Fest 桂林米粉宴 at the restaurant and my dad told us that there's nothing much special about it and the bee hoon didn't really taste nice. Maybe not our cup of "bee hoon". We were served with 2 local beers and one local Coca-Cola (a fake one). Our stomachs were grumbling so much because we had not eaten since we left the McDonald in LCCT and we thought we could eat a whole cow, but when they served the food, we were stunned by the amount of dishes of food that we were going to take.
This is the fired dumplings. Weird, but okay. They got peanuts filling in them.
This is the TangYuan wrapped with pandan leaves. You can taste the red bean paste in it. One of my favourites.
This is the bee hoon I mentioned just. Looks kinda thick, huh?
This is the chicken fried with dried chillies. In China, when you order dishes like this, you can seldom eat any chicken that has any meat it. Poor chicken in China.
This is the steamed rice with chicken. The rice tasted quite raw.
Everyone of us were so full and we could hardly breathe with our fully-packed stomach, but we still have to leave as we are now heading towards one of Guilin's famous natural caves, the Reed Flute Cave 芦笛岩. As soon as we reached the location, our tour van was crowded by a group of mobs. Those mobs don't carry any AK54 as the angry mobs do in C&C Generals, but bunch of souvenirs and post cards. They kept bugging you to buy their stuff and the price were unequal. Some sold 1 mini bamboo flute for 50cents, and some sold 5 flutes for RMB1. They were just trying to earn a living but their attitude were too scary. You'll see what I meant when I post some of the pictures I took at the other place.
We had cto climb some stairs before we reached the cave, which is on top of a small hill.
For millions and millions of years of water-drop-work.
Who's the humungous lady sitting at the right?
The walls looked slimy but they were just wet and slippery.
Nice?
This is the weirdest sculpture I saw in the cave. Something kinky and dirty came into my mind.
Those Ah Ma-s bugged us all the way from the exit to our van. Bugger. One of them had her head knocked by the van's automatic door when she tried to enter our van.
Okay, that's all for today. I'm gonna continue posting someday when I'm free regarding my trip in Guilin. So, for you guys out there, thank you for visiting my blog. And for my family, I'm fine right here in school and no worries. It's 2.11am now, so I guess I gotta climb up to my bed now. Nite Nite!
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