Sunday, 29 June 2014

A trip to Guilin, China






Guilin, a place of magnificent hills, caves and rivers.
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My parents given me an opportunity to open my eyes to the beautiful sceneries of Guilin (桂林), China. The town center is surrounded by two rivers and four lakes and studded with sheer sided cluster mountains. Once I thought the traditional chinese paintings of Guilin's sceneries were just imaginary of the artists but it absolutely real in front of my eyes.

Guilin is a prefecture-level city in the northeast of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, People's Republic of China, situated on the west bank of the Li River, and bordering Hunan to the north. Its name means, "forest of Sweet Osmanthus", owing to the large number of fragrant Sweet Osmanthus trees located in the city. wikipedia 

The summer Guilin has a lot of rain and it was drizzling on the first day we arrived. Luckily we are well prepared for the weather and walking in the rain in this scenic city seems not as romantic as we seen in the dramas or movies.   

On the second day, we visited a well-known cave named Silver Cave (Yin Zi Yan) in Yangshuo, GuilinThe cave got its name because of its silver-like stalactites and stalagmites, radiating under the spotlights like diamonds and silver. Inside this water-eroded cave is a spectacular world of various stalactites, stone pillars and rock formations created by carbonate deposition over thousands of years. The stalactites and stalagmites formations are really awesome and when combined with various colours of lightings, it forms an amazing piece of art for the tourists. I managed to take a few pictures here!



 This is a natural rock formation with the combination of lightings that looks like a Peacock.











This is a stunning natural masterpiece of art ~ 雪山飞瀑 (its name in Chinese as the stalactites formation looking like waterfalls emerging out of winter snowing mountain)










They call this the Silver Diamond. Because it glows and forms sparkles like tiny dust during the dark. They are natural too! All the above pictures were taken with my Canon EOS 550D.


Besides this, I also have the opportunity to visit the famous Yao Mountain in Guilin. To reach the mountain peak, there are people following the track climbing up the hill and of course we took the cable car instead of climbing.





Guess whose legs are these? Yeah, my legs!


The cable cars was built along the hill. We did not feel the fears when going up as we are facing the hill. It was otherwise when going down, you will have the feeling of unsafe as we are facing the open space and the hill is really high. We stopped at halfway station on the way down. Guess how we came down in the middle of the hill? Not by walking and yeah ~ we came down by slides!








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