For our time in Guangxi we made Guilin our base. Already upon arrival we were hit by the heat confirming that we caught the summer again. 30˚C and pressing humidity. Luckily almost all hostel rooms contain air condition.
Guilin seen from the top of a cast mountain.
Guilin has it’s very own charm. This little Chinese town (only 4.5 million inhabitants) spreads it’s arms between forgein looking cast mountains and the syrup like Li river. The water can be found everywhere in the city being home to ancient pagodas, fisher and their boats and in case also serve as a wash for scooter, cloths, babies or dogs.
The moon and the sun pagoda, you may guess which is which.
Fisher at the shores of Li river. Hobby or profession, we don’t know.
Scooter wash. We didn’t dare to try the local fish that are served everywhere in the city.
Two other remarkable things are the bakeries all over town that sell delicious bread (also because it is real bread) and the „Ampelmännchen“ (The only english translation I found was „little light man in traffic lights that indicate when to walk“). When we encountered the first we thought somebody programmed them wrongly because it was rather humpingly jumping than walking. After a while we actually got the impression somebody made a statement for „more tolerance with disabled people“ because each Ampelmännchen had a different kind of motion disorder.(MVI_7483). From here we took a trip to the rice terraces around Tiantou and a idyllic bike ride to Yangshuo along the Li river.
Fisher boats or actually these were rather house boats, since people are living on their boats.
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