Guilin:Day Ten

There isn’t much to say about today. We got up bright and early in the morning to catch a plane to take us to Guilin. Guilin is the place where the peaky mountains are along the Li river. There are many pictures of them in books. The airport and plane were very nice. The plane ride was about two hours. After getting off of the plane we took a taxi to our hotel. Right next to our hotel are some pretty walkways along a tributary of the Li River. It is very scenic and we walked when the sun was setting over some of the mountains. When the sun was fully down, we went back to our hotel and though a market with people at their stands. The thing about Guilin is that people want you to buy their stuff. No matter what situation or circumstance, they want you to buy. In China, you are supposed to bargain prices down. No one expects that you buy an item at full price. I wanted to buy a jade disc necklace and we tried to bargain it down. It didn’t work to well because it ended with us not buying the necklace and the woman running after us screaming. There’s Chinese buying for you. That was our first real bargaining experience and we ended up buying another necklace for half the starting price.

Lianne