[giallo]

Guangxi Province, which is home to the cities of Guilin and Yangshou, is the beauty queen province of China. The place is ridiculously gorgeous. Full of farmers, tourists (hippies from all corners of the planet love to visit and stink the joint up) and sex trade workers, Guangxi Province is unique to China. The people are very chill, the tourists aren't very fat and the elevators in 4 star hotels offer 'Lady of the Night' services.
Guangxi Province, you had me at hello.




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Straight up

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Mao loved his in the 750ml bottle. Get it right, people.

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Yangshou is full of cheesy clubs that refuse to believe such hits as Willenium and Jenny From The Block were stolen from the Beatnuts. I'll never go back.

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Traffic jam caused by strawberries. No joke.

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The bridge in the background is like 800 years old.

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Dude could play a mean rendition of Hot For Teacher.

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Quick Tip: Rub these all over your face for an even complexion.

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See

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Yangshou is also a popular draw for lesbians?

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I was going to follow it up with a bulldyke joke, but....naaaah.

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Yeah. There are A LOT of cows in Guangxi Province.

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A very friendly lady who invited me in to her house.

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Ol' Man Chueng sez: ''Get out of my front yard!''

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Tourists don't stand a chance

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Serenity now

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Go!



Thanks for staying until the end.

[Kingofthehill]

That's some raw 'ish.

[HomeInMyShoes]

Serenity now. Indeed.

[ColDayMan]

Yup.

[FREKI]

Great ones! :)

[flar]

Who needs National Geographic?

[stepper77]

Beautiful!

[R@ptor]

Fantastic photos :)

The area around Yangshuo was definitely one of the highlights of my last China trip. Sure...the town itself is overrun by tourists, but as soon as you rent a mountainbike and ride far off the beaten path you'll enter another world.

[plinko]

duck man, island cows, and 20 quid for a cheap thrill...I dig

I really wish I had ventured to Yangshuo on my odyssey, but I didn't want to go alone.

[Sekkle]

Damn! Great work! :cheers:

[Reesonov]

Some of those scenes are straight out of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms. So beautiful. Great thread.

[ady26]

Great!

[aspiringArchitect]

Awesome photos.

The duck ones were my favorite. :)

[Fusey]

Nice shots. Looks like a beautiful place.

[Hayward]

Gorgeous photos!

[nito]

Deja vu - I took the exact same boat trip and the exact same trip to the village (I presume you took the crazy mini-bus back as well - more overtaking maneuvers than Michael Schumacher?) where you went.

Completely different experience though. The boat ride was possibly one of the most mind numbing experiences of my life (everyone was asleep by the 2nd hour) and being welcomed by a swathe of pickpockets in Yangshou was sad. The village was good though - the reality of the true average Chinese citizen - actually the best image of China (Beijing, Shenzhen, Guilin) I took home.

Guilin is an example of when the ugliness of human development and beauty of nature merge - it gives mixed signals.

[staff]

Love the place, love the pics.

[fangorangutang]

Love your pics! Inspiration for my remaining time in China.

[MolsonExport]

insanely gorgeous place, superb photos.

[ue]

Great job. I really liked the colours in here, popping colours and dramatic darker tones as well. Very nice.

[Evergrey]

this is a brilliant collection... love the mix of city, rural, people, rain and cows...

[WesternGulf]

beautiful geography!

[Segun]

Strawberries and Hennessey!

[jcchii]

really pretty

[Urban Zombie®]

Wicked Pissah, as in these shots are so wicked, I've just pissed myself. My new underpants are starting to really dislike me, methinks.


Strange that you passed up the opportunity to make a snarky comment on this little ditty:
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Seems like it would've been a no brainer...

[hkskyline]

I'm not a big fan of that 'bar street' in Yangshuo. I don't need to venture deep into China to get that. But I really wonder ... Guilin has been open to tourists for quite a number of years, if not decades. Why are they still so poor?

[Leo the Dog]

What an interesting landscape! Enjoyed the pics.

[giallo]

I'm not a big fan of that 'bar street' in Yangshuo. I don't need to venture deep into China to get that. But I really wonder ... Guilin has been open to tourists for quite a number of years, if not decades. Why are they still so poor?

The people in Guilin seemed quite prosperous. It was outside of Guilin (and Yangshou) that you saw some serious poverty. But then, outside of any urban center in China you see this kind of thing. Jaxing is a good example of this. Its a city an hour of so outside of Shanghai, yet its broke as hell outside of the CBD.

Thanks for the peeks.

[Ex-Ithacan]

Entertaining pics and comments. That old bridge makes me feel like a youngster again. I'd like to say more, but I gotta get out and walk my waterfowl down the road. Thanks.