Guilin, China

We have returned from our weekend trip to Guilin mainland China. I've never seen a third world country until this trip so it was definitely a bit of a culture shock. It is a scenic place and has some natural beauty to it, but I don't think we'll be returning anytime soon!

We got to go on a tour through an old cave, ride up to the top of a mountain in the cable car, take photos with a monkey, go on a riverboat tour and have a tour guide show us around the area. The best thing was the hour long massage we got for about $12 bucks each!

Here are some of our photos.

The entire album from this trip can be viewed by clicking here: Guilin Photos

On the riverboat

There were all these people following alongside the boat the whole time begging for money.

I never knew a place dirtier than Tijuana could exist, but it does. Nobody uses toilet paper in mainland and good luck even finding a regular toilet anywhere. Most of the things we saw that were called toilets were disgusting holes in the ground and completely unsanitary. I don't even want to be descriptive in explaining it. It was truly the nastiest thing I've ever seen in my life. The cleanest public bathroom was in the airport and I even cringed at it. Who came up with this retarded idea of a toilet on the floor???

Finding food there that wasn't snake eyes, turtle soup, fried frog or an organ from some animal was as bad as finding a normal toilet. The stuff people eat there looks SO GROSS!! We pretty much ate M&M's, fruit, rice and french fries at the restaurant in our hotel since that was literally all we could find that was "normal" to us. Oh, and people drive crazy in China! There are no traffic laws there, all people do is honk at each other and pass eachother on the wrong side of the street! It was an experience but we were happy to get back to civilization and normal food in Hong Kong on Monday night!

Friday we leave for Singapore and Bintan for 6 days. Looking forward to that!