We spent most of the day at the Longji Village and rice terraces. We had to switch to smaller park busses to drive the windy potholed roads. We had to hike up windy steps for so long to the restaurant. About 10 of our group got left behind and we didn’t realize until we were at the restaurant. They didn’t have tickets, so An Laoshi had run all the way down to get them, then come back up. Lunch was good. The view from the top was great. We saw local women who cut their hair for the first time when they are 18–then never again. They wear the cut hair, and the hair the falls out (pulled from the hairbrush) all wrapped together with their current hair.
“Bacon rock”
Dinner at the Left Bank Restaurant included French fries, pizza, and battered fries bananas. People were really happy. The Hotel Guilin Universal had soft beds! But window into bathroom (with a blind).
Several of us walked to the waterfall show to see the largest man made waterfall in China (water cascading down the side of a hotel, with lights to make a rainbow and music—underwhelming. We also walked to Fir Lake and took pics of the gold and silver (Sun and moon) pagodas and Elephant Trunk Mountain.
It was pouring rain when we arrived at the Guilin train station to head to Hong Kong.
The safety sign on the escalator in the Guilin train station.
Unfortunately, there (temporarily) wasn’t any running water in the train station, so the bathrooms were beyond disgusting. Too gross for photos. We took the high speed train to Shenzhen.
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