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\nExpected people to join us in the cabin, but it ended up just being Natalia and I for the entire trip (other than visits by Peter, who was stuck with all Chinese).\u00c2\u00a0 After a noodle breakfast, we arrived in Guilin – and waited in line for about an hour for Natalia to book her ticket to Shanghai for a few days from now.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Peter is staying in Guilin, so we say goodbye to him.<\/p>\n\n
Natalia and I grab a bus to Yangshuo, which seems to leave every ten minutes or so.\u00c2\u00a0 It takes about an hour, and I manage to nod off – even though I didn’t think I was so tired.\u00c2\u00a0 There’s a guy in the aisle next to me, whose dandruff keeps getting on my shorts.\u00c2\u00a0 Lovely.\u00c2\u00a0 When he leaves, a new guy sits down and asks where I am heading.\u00c2\u00a0 He asks where we’re staying in Yangshuo, and tells me that he actually works at the hostel we plan on going to.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t believe him for a second, but we decide to check out his hostel instead.<\/p>\n
It’s decent, and relatively cheap, with a nice location, so we figure we’ll spend at least a couple of nights there.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m planning on staying in town for a while, so the nicer the better, but this will do.<\/p>\n
We head into the busy area of downtown, and grab some lunch (pizza), which is pretty tasty.\u00c2\u00a0 I book my onward journey ticket, managing to get the price down from 250 yuan to 160.<\/p>\n
After wandering the town for a bit, we\u00c2\u00a0watch the news back at the hostel, which plays the same China Tourism\u00c2\u00a0commercial over and over.\u00c2\u00a0 Nice looking country.<\/p>\n
We grab some dinner next.\u00c2\u00a0 Beer fish – and the Americans at the table next to us encourage the restaurant owner to break out his musical instrument (I forget the name), and he plays us some music.\u00c2\u00a0 After dinner, I buy some sunglasses that I doubt I’d ever really wear at home, but think I’m growing fond of.\u00c2\u00a0 The girl who sells them to us speaks excellent english, so I ask her about the supposed festival taking place over the weekend.\u00c2\u00a0 She tells me they eat something called zongzhe, but doesn’t know the english term for it so she tells me to come back in the morning and she’ll bring me some.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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