Finally!

With only one presentation left I've finally found some time to start blogging about my trip to Guilin. So here you go:

Guilin Day 1:

We didn't leave Macao until 7:30pm as Sidsel and I both had classes in the afternoon. It was a mad dash to catch the ferry due to some bus issues, but we did make it and were cruising towards Shezhen at 7:30 sharp. Once in Shenzhen we took the free shuttle to the airport, checked-in, went through security and started what would be a three hour wait for our flight. Due to bad weather (where we really weren't sure since we saw no bad weather while we were on the shuttle) we boarded 40 minutes late and then sat on the ground for another 2 hours or so. Luckily our plane wasn't full so we each took a row to ourselves and grab some blankets from the nice stewardess. We flew with China Southern and I have to say that I would fly with them again in a heartbeat. Instead of making us sit in silence, they immediately switched on the TV and passed out water and peanuts. They played some Chinese news for a bit and then switched to Yogi Bear The Movie!!!!! ENGLISH! WooooooHooooo! I cuddled up with my blanket and drifted off to sleep listening to Yogi Bear and BooBoo being "smarter than the average bears." Once we took off the flight was fine and we landed in Guilin an hour later. It was around 2am at this point so we grabbed a taxi and took the 40min. ride into town to our hostel.

We stayed at HOW Hostel and I highly reccommend it to anybody going to Guilin. They were great and breakfast was especially yummy. That night we just crashed and decided it would be better to sleep till 11am instead of trying to kill our selves by getting up at 8am, which is what we were originally planning. We fell fast asleep dreaming of the adventures awaiting us in Yangshuo.

Up next: One of the most beautiful places I've ever seen....and A LOT OF RAIN.