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Vacations / Holidays

Hi, I'm back from a 8 days holidays during which I went to Hong Kong and Guilin, in south china. I did a lot of things, and I'm not sure I can say everything to you. I'll put what I did here and you will choose what you want me to blog.
-First, I went to Shenzhen, crossed the border to go to Hong kong and met Pierre there.
-Then we visited Hong Kong Island
-went to victoria peak
-Visited the floating island of Aberdeen
-Then went to Cheung Chao island not far from Hong Kong (still with Pierre)
-I went alone to Lion's rock as Pierre had less holidays
-I visited the 10000 Buddha temple
-I went back to China the same way I came in to fly to Guilin
-I ate snake
-I saw the minority Show
-I went on a cruise on the Li river to Yanshuo
-I went on a little cruise next to Yanshuo to see a very artificial reconstitution of ancient minorities
-I watched fishers fish with cormorans
-I ate special spicy noodles of Guanxi province (or was it noodled Spices?)
-I went to Longji, to see a minority that still lives like they did centuries ago (no tourists until 10 years ago) that grow rice and spices on the mountain
-I ate Dog
-I visited a cave in Guilin, the elephant rock mountain, the special good sight peak with fog, the 4 lakes, the tea research center, the Guilin pearls jewelery, the silk factories
-I went back to Shanghai.
I guess that most of the Hong Kong part will be or is already on Pierre's blog, so if nobody complains, I will begin directly with Guilin... (You can complain)
The trip was very nice, and I had a great time (very expensive but good anyway).

posted by Quentin @ 10/08/2006 08:59:00 AM