13th day, guilin. Elephant park.

went to elephant park today. Elephant park !!! these chinese make me laugh, they will turn anything into something. the first pic above shows you elephant hill, which is why its called elephant park.

I can see what they mean, but hey thats no elephant. its meant to be an elephant drinking the water. arhh aint it sweet. (puke)

It was a rather nice park, i climbed to the top of the elephant hill and it was a nice view (see pics) However while i was at the top. monsoon. nice, so i ended up going to a cave in the mountain and staying there for a while, it was ok. i didn't get that wet. i was sat with a chinese family, dont think there were too impressed, but i dont care.

Once the rain had stopped (well i thought it had) i ventured out of the cave and had another walk round. nothing special, nice little gardens and some stone elephants about.

Then it started raining again, wow it can rain out here. this time i got wet. so i stopped under a bridge with lots of other chinese and watched a few of them playing cards, no idea what it was looked like snap to me.

So the rain got a little softer so i thought i would grab this time to go back to the hostel. not my best idea, got half way down and it started again getting heavy.

oh yeah i found out the unbrella i brought leaks, yeah nice ah. not alot but it does leak.

So by the time i got back to the hostel i was soaked. got changed and hey it got sunny again, and never rained for the rest of the day. Shell's luck !!!!!

You will never guess how hard it is to find a chinese resturant round here, in guilin. Most just sell pizza's or pasta. Dam i thought i was in china, how hard can it be. Well finally found one, although i hear they have different menu's one for chinese and one for forigners, guess which one is dearer.

It's still cheaper then home, but still thats aint nice. anyway meal was nice, i had the beef and black bean sauce again. yummy. Not as nice as the one in beijing, but was tasty.

being a weekend i thought i would check out a few clubs. went into 3 that are around here, and there is no dance floor. WHAT is that about. no dance floor. How can a club have no dance floor. So i didn't teach guilin how to dance, just had a few drinks,. meet a brazilian. he was ok. we went a meet a couple of chinese women and played a drinking game. basically it is poker with dice. Stayed there for a few, and left him to it. and no they dont speak english and i dont speak chinese.

Do you like the chingrish sign, thought i was about time i put one on here to show you what i see all the time. funny as you like some of them, this one isn't the best but gives you an idea.