October 4, 2009

09/25/2009 – Day 34 – Mud bath

Like with my Beijing posts, I’ll have brief daily recap for each day of the trip and then have separate posts for anything that requires more detail. (And no, I haven’t forgotten about Beijing. I’ll get to those eventually, but I’ll be drowning in work this week, so those might have to wait.)

Anyways, I had no chance of being late for our 5:30 AM meet-up because I pulled an all-nighter. Tired, but excited, I hopped onto a bus to Hong Qiao airport for our early morning flight to Guilin. At the Guilin airport, we met up with our tour guides for the trip, Jessie and Moy. Luckily, we had some time to rest on the bus during our two hour drive to Yangshuo.

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September 24, 2009

09/18/2009 – Day 27 – The Great Wall of China

Just a small note before I start writing about Beijing. I don’t think daily recaps are good for writing about travel. I did A LOT in Beijing every day, so cramming, say, a post about Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, and the Olympics site would be an enjoyable post. It’d be insanely long and dense. So what I’m going to do is write about each place I saw in separate posts. I’ll keep the daily recap, but they’ll be more of an overview of what I did instead of a full blown detailed write-up.

So without further ado, my wonderful experience in the northern capital, Beijing.

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