It was a cold and wet morning in Guilin on the 13th of February, Chinese New
Year’s Eve. I could vaguely see the Sun and Moon Pagodas from the window of my
hotel. The distant peaks were hardly visible at all. After a breakfast at KFC,
it started to rain. All hope of taking good pictures got washed [...]

Joining a tour group has always been the last thing on my mind, but I had little
time and no choice. So on the first day of Chinese New Year, I paid Y150 for a
Yangshuo and Li Jiang cruise and boarded a tour bus with Chinese tourists from
all over the country. Our guide was a young, [...]