Hi All
Today we saw the China we used to see on many pictures: a countryside with rice terraces, people with round straw chinese hats working on those fields, all that on a background of green hills with bamboo plantations on them. Very picturesque, very pastoral. That was in a typical village out of Guilin. We also visited a local school in that village. It is far from any school we know, but the kids (7-12 I think) were clean, polite and wrote in their little notebooks real Chinese! I have pictures.
We also were witnesses to a famous fishing method using Cormorant birds with tied up throats. Seems to be inhuman (uncormorant), I am not sure they (the cormorants) feel so too. Any way they do what their owners/guides/job managers tell them to do.
Another amazing thing we witnessed was in the main square of Guilin. A big hotel facade (front) of two hundred rooms became suddenly a waterfall. The roof of the building started pouring water along the entire length of the hotel and down all 10-15 floors of it. It was Amazing, That waterfall show continued for about 15 minutes. They claim to have the Guinness world record in a size of a man made waterfall!
And then, as usual, we visited the local stands and bought, and bought, and got some ice cream, and walked with our friends.
Its late again, tomorrow a boat trip along the Lee river. Should be Amazing.
Good night
Abraham