A few weeks ago, we went to Guilin in the south of China and I never really said anything about it. Here are some pictures.
So, we got off the airplane and headed to the hotel where we were greeted by this:
Disinfected, eh? Now...it never would have even occurred to me that this toilet had been infected if not for the pageant-style sash it was sporting. And what, one might ask, had the toilet been infected with? We had so many questions.
Below is a picture of my friend Sarah holding some monkeys in kind of adorable, if not Peta-approved, outfits. Some guy handed them to her really quickly so she couldn't disagree. And as I'm sure you know, it's not so easy to escape when you have two outfitted monkeys crawling all over you.
We learned in no time that this was a scam. We learned this because apparently you must pay to take photographs of people with these monkeys and apparently this photograph that you are looking at right now cost 10 yuan I didn't pay. When we managed to wiggle out of this situation and get a little further down the street, the monkey man ran after us screaming all sorts of obscenities and possibly even threatening bodily harm. Although, it's hard to say. My Chinese isn't that good yet.
So, we got off the airplane and headed to the hotel where we were greeted by this:
Disinfected, eh? Now...it never would have even occurred to me that this toilet had been infected if not for the pageant-style sash it was sporting. And what, one might ask, had the toilet been infected with? We had so many questions.Below is a picture of my friend Sarah holding some monkeys in kind of adorable, if not Peta-approved, outfits. Some guy handed them to her really quickly so she couldn't disagree. And as I'm sure you know, it's not so easy to escape when you have two outfitted monkeys crawling all over you.
We learned in no time that this was a scam. We learned this because apparently you must pay to take photographs of people with these monkeys and apparently this photograph that you are looking at right now cost 10 yuan I didn't pay. When we managed to wiggle out of this situation and get a little further down the street, the monkey man ran after us screaming all sorts of obscenities and possibly even threatening bodily harm. Although, it's hard to say. My Chinese isn't that good yet.
This is a stalactite.
These are some of the many mountains we saw on our trip. Lovely scenery. And Dylan, if you're reading this, it made me think of you a lot. All over the place were mountains and fresh air and crunchy hippie dreadlock dudes. It made me think that Guilin must be the closest thing China has to Boulder.
And before we left, we even made a few new friends. Like this kid.
No comments:
Post a Comment