ELAINE'S PICTURES OF CHINA

Guilin

After about 45 minutes, our ferry dropped us off at a small, 500-year-old fishing village. Apparently President Clinton visited this village a few years ago, and we saw lots of photos of him there. Here is the sign posted at the entrance to the village...

More scenes from the fishing village

A woman in the village charges people 1 yuan (about 12 cents) to go up on her roof to take pictures. We decided to splurge.

You can smell these palmello flowers in the air as you're floating down the Li River!

Next we headed back into Guilin to see "Reed Flute Cave." This huge cave has lots of colored lights installed in it, making it look very surreal inside. My camera batteries were dead at this point, but I was lucky enough to get one great shot! This scene was titled "Mountain City." To get an idea of the scale, look to the left... those dark figures are people standing on the edge of a giant puddle of water.

I let my camera rest a bit, and was able to take one more picture in another cave at "Fubo Hill." Can you see the stone buddhas on the walls? These buddhas are hundreds of years old, and the cave is filled with them.

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