To talk about it being a small world, if you read my last blog post (or a couple before that) you would have seen a picture of me and some guy that we met from New Jersey. As we were waiting at the bust station in ShenZhen we were asked a question by another girl, ended up, she was traveling with the Billy kid.
Me with my bag heading to the bus station from the train station!
OK anyways, so our trip was from hong kong, on the mtr, to shenzhen, then to the bus station and an overnight bus. Let me tell you, I thought I was in the Harry Potter Movie. I'll include a picture of the bus, it was AWESOME! There were little beds, and the driving.... well let me say this - the driving in the harry potter movie was about 300x BETTER than what we went through. At one point, about 3am I woke up and looked out the window. We were, no word of a lie, about 4 or 5 inches from the TRUCK next to us, and on top of that, we were SWERVING. How we were swerving, or where we were swerving to on the road is beyond me, but we were!!!! I thought it might be better to roll over and go back to sleep, so I did.
My Harry Potter bus adventure!
We got to Guilin, and got to the hotel (GREAT location...right by one of the rivers, and right by the center of town too). We ended up crashing and sleeping for a couple hours then heading out. We wandered around, went to a HUGE park, saw pandas, and wild monkeys,
Breakfast VERY early, after a LONG trip, do not judge my appearance!
We had a great time and went out for dinner that night, and wandered around. The thing about Guilin, is there really are NO rules to the road. It is pretty much done on a chain-of-food set of rules. Buses are highest, then trucks, cars, motorcycles, scooters, bikes and pedestrians. If someone is higher than you on the chain of command, they will NOT get out of your way.... there are no lights, or if there are they're not something to trust. the scooters go on the sidewalk and get mad at pedestrians in their way. There was a scooter going down the "wrong way" of the street, and was honking their horn at the bikes and the bikers had to get out of HIS way. It's hilarious.
A guy who just had such a great face - but this is unedited, and untouched!
Ok i'm going to put a bunch of pics in, and then i'll continue my next day in a new post :).
Two kids playing....
There are TONS of other pictures, but i won't make you guys look through 'em all, YET... not until i get back into Canada :)
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