Wednesday, 7 September 2011

Gui Lin City 桂林 两江四湖

Today, we start our day from Gui Lin city, having breakfast at nearby Yong He 永和, we order soy milk and yiu tiao 豆浆油条, they have sour soy milk... and i order that to try... hehe... we like this place, and we come back here again next day....

Early morning, i took quick walk around hostel 九龙别墅酒店, near 中山中路,南门桥旁, well planned city, clean, and modern, yet, is identical... People here live in healthy and relax way... Maintaining unique way of traditional....

We visit Qing Wang Castle... 靖江王城, castle of one of the royal family... Once you enter here, with ticket, there will be tour guide to tour you around.... no photography allowed inside the building....

Behind the castle is a hill, which believed to be secure base, according to Feng Sui, source of the dynasty is inside this hole, only the one who rule the country will know exact location of "source".

We hike up to that mountain, according to feng sui, here is south of China, and believe that tail of dragon located here, Gui Lin city is inside the valley, and at the middle got one hill, that the reason emperor that time send his prince to build castle here...

After walk out from castle, we heading toward modern part of Gui Lin city, there is a nice walking street... and we walk around here for shopping and window shopping...

We stop by somewhere for lunch, those char siew really big... guilin really famous for guilin bihun 桂林米粉

In order to make this city clean, less carbon, less noise... only electric motorcycles allowed in this city... so you can see this station every where... 

This booth is promoting package for wedding photography... see clearly... that is one the trend at Gui Lin now....

Beside modern building, Gui Lin city is a city in garden, 2 river and 4 lake decorating this city nicely.... 两江四湖... Twin pagoda is main attraction in this garden... 双塔映月... Nice garden for day and night view....

We have our dinner at one seafood restaurant... we request taxi driver send us to food street... and they bring us here... this shop is so called one of the food street... feel a bit cheated... but just try la... but not really recommended this... hehe... after that only know place we want to go is 西街美食街。。。

After that, we go back to garden again, to watch the performance of man made water fall.... 漓江大瀑布饭店观赏九天银河...


[This is part of China Tour]

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