DebbieGale: The One and Only.... GUILIN!! :)

Last weekend we took our first big trip to Yangshuo, Guilin!! Doctor Seuss town, we felt like we were in the movie Horton Hears a Who!! :D Guilin is 13 hours from our school so we got to take a sleeper bus!! I felt just like Harry Potter on the Night Bus!! Especially since the drivers here are CRAZY!! I would not have been surprised if we snuck between two other buses as tight as in the movie! The bus ride was fun, they had bunk beds in the bus, so we had a big sleepover party!

We arrived to our hostel at 4 in the morning- we get off the bus and it looks like this creepy old rundown street, our hostel is across from the voodoo bar and down a dark scary alley way! I was surprised by our hostel- it was really nice, we had nice rooms for just us four girls with our own bathroom and shower, definitely not what I was expecting!
We had such an adventure in Guilin! The first day we got to rent motor scooters!! :D Yipee!!

It was the highlight of the trip- we got them all day to just tour around the city. The city we live in is really nice and isolated so it was fun to tour around on the scooters and see REAL China! People out working in the rice fields, walking the cows down the street, old run down houses- it was neat to see but made you really appreciate America! A few of us were able to go on a hike to Moon Hill! It’s like an Arch at Arches National Park. I think we walked about 893 stairs to the top- and it was completely worth it! The view over the city and the mountains was Amazing!! We also go to go into a cave and PLAY IN THE MUD!! To get in the cave we took a little boat- which felt just like Pirates of the Caribbean. The cave was a lot like Minnetonka’s but we actually got to climb to the top of one of the formations and they didn’t care if you touched the stalactites or not. The Mud was the best! It was like High School Mud Olympics all over again, except you couldn’t throw the mud which was kind of a bummer. There was a slide that went down into the mud-which was fun but hurt a little more than expected! Sliding down was great, but landing on the rocks and mud didn’t feel to great!
We also got to take a ride on a bamboo raft