In the morning I head out to the local market, I can’t seem to find the path to get to the vege fields that I can see from the apartment. On the way to the local market as I zip to find the path, I also find older apartments that do not have toilets inside their homes, people have their toilets outside and they lock their own units.
From the market, I see the new Shangri-La hotel… as they are new, their rates are also quite reasonable…. Oh but they have a swimming pool... the heat seems to sap alot out of us, having said that before we arrived it was rain rain rain.
We head to Yaoshan, a mountain that my granddad had climbed back in the 1940s when he lived in Guilin for a year. Well guess how we got up? By ski lift, German make – mind you. We had cooler weather up in the mountains, beautiful, beautiful scenery and guess how we come down… by luge! The kids loved it so much that we headed up again – again luckily at Chinese prices. The luge is long and really quite fun.
After a rest, in the evening, we head to Gui Lake (on an open air scooter that looks like an open van) where the local’s go to swim. The water is a jade green and we get swimming tubes for the kids. They look really nice in their colorful tubes and luckily with Allan there, he goes in with them. The locals crowd round to see Allan throw the kids into the water, they are surprised that they can swim at a young age and then I realize how come the floaties for the kids here are so large!!! They are made for older non-swimmers. Allan needless to say is jumping into the water in his action shots again.
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