The local bus to Guilin was chockablock-there were people on small plastic stools lining the aisle. A very friendly local called Zhuang Jin Liang (Peter) who teaches at the Yangshuo Art School and chatted to us in the bus, invited us to visit his class and help them with their English. Unfortunately were we heading in the opposite direction. He took us to our hotel beside the river.
Guilin was very smoggy and it was difficult to see the karst hills that surround the city. There are many parks in the city centre and it was fun to watch the locals enjoying themselves on a Saturday afternoon.
Guilin is around 4 million people and manytourists come here to take the river cruise to view the karst hills along the riverbanks.
Saturday morning at a busy intersection!It was wet and miserable the whole time we were in Guilin so were happy to have a hotel with a heatpump in our room and WIFI access in the lobby. A group of Americans were in the hotel doing volunteer work with YWAM (Youth With A Mission) so it was interesting to chat with them.
We tried to take the river tour from Yangshuo but it was not possible so we booked a tour with the hotel in Guilin.
