08-24-2009, 10:24 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2009
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Guilin
Went out to the airport to fly with China Southerninto the southwestern part of China, Guilin, I began my Guilin Travel, one part of our China Vacations. They began by asking for full fare, but I asked for the discount price. They dropped the price by 40 percent, but this is China and you negotiate everything here, so I offered less than half. However, I found out later that china domestic flightsairfares are not negotiable and I suppose she thought I should have known this already. An hour later I came to my Guilin Hotels. This turns out to be an interesting enough place, but I’m not making the most of it. Heat and humidity again, coupled with some normal enough rain and some real torrential downpours. Don’t want to know what “spicy” means. Interestingly, some of the snails were, well, pregnant and they had a lot of slightly crunchy tiny snails inside of them. A bit odd if you think about it while chewing, so I tried not to. But I couldn’t help feeling that somehow my hunger and need for nourishment were responsible for these baby snails never even having had a chance in this world. There’s also a big night market here. Long double row of stands selling combs, t-shirts with Che Guevara’s face or something silly written on it (, bracelets, tea, “jade” buddhas, wooden flutes, caricatures and colourful kitsch. You find the Western version of this associated with any travelling circus. It was all new and the sort of thing you look at several days after you’ve brought it home and think Why in the hell did I buy that? Maybe it just looked good to you under the bright lights. At home it takes on its true appearance: cheap junk. I bought a bracelet of wooden beads. But it’s different.
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