reiselust - mountains and water Our new family trip to China starts in Guilin, the city on the Li River, the landscape is famous for traditional Chinese paintings and countless Western and Chinese tourists to travel there to look at the sharp hill rising out of the water. Thanks to mass tourism is also strengthened by capitalism and so are the countless tours that are offered do not come cheap.
But you (or my parents) can not be deterred and we will book the Hotel Deluxe Rooms, which only works for a smaller outbreak of the old man more or less. The hotel tries to give high-class but it failed miserably. Service is still in lower case, but at least the girls from the travel agency is helpful.
is the first day's of the Li River and you can see different animals in the shapes of the mountains. At least 4 Camel Mountains and Two turtle mountains you can admire a unique addition to the elephant hill and Moon Hill. Time and again boarded seller on rafts and the sightseeing boat to sell their trash. On the river there are some fishermen who fish using cormorants. The birds dive from the boat from the fisherman to fish and are then drawn with a line back to the boat. Thus, the cormorant fishermen swallow them will not simply tied the necks so that they are still breathing, but can not swallow. An unsatisfactory job for the birds, but for the fishermen, it seems to work very well. The feathered divers bring back the minute fish on board.
And because so lacking in arts education should not we look in "Shangri-La" (not the real), some ethnic minorities in supposedly authentic costumes on. Although I doubt the authenticity of the fake leopard-skin-Tarzan costume somewhat. I think then they have probably used more imitation tiger skin. The whole thing seemed like a eh Ride at Disneyland: A boat we went on by with buffalo skulls decorated huts in which the "savages" on sight spontaneously began to sing and dance.
The day after was spent in other ethnic villages and the beautiful rice terraces be. In the morning we were one of the many buses that go there, picked up. But when I entered the bus I flashed against a well-known smile.
Annette but actually was coincidentally in Guilin and had booked the same tour at the same time in the same bus. Of course, were first properly beschnackt the experiences of recent months and since neither the guide nor the non-stop babbling eclipse was particularly interesting, we have missed during the bus ride, eh nix. As the guide told us many words is this popular tradition that one should see the (usually concealed) hair, an unmarried woman, this one is obligated to marry. were in the village but only old women around and any warning was unnecessary. The freak show with the woman with the longest hair in the world, we also are saved and then, finally, a few high podium to enjoy the view over the rice terraces. Of course, you can also carry one with the litter or have great pictures with women in costumes shoot. Stingy as we are satisfied we have, however, with an ice cream.
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