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travel asia china guilin

Flying 400 miles inland to Guilin in Communist China as the only two Caucasians onboard the plane led to what was possibly the most exciting and stimulating trip I have ever experienced.
Landing in pitch black on an airport runway lit only with bonfires, not being met by the government-mandated guide, and riding several miles in the dark with a taxi driver that wouldn't use his headlights
because they were too hard to replace, was only the start of a fantastic experience.
I'll always remember the little old wrinkled, unsmiling, immigration guard, standing next to a huge machine-gun-toting soldier at the airport, whose grim expression was suddenly broken with a huge toothless smile
as he stroked his hairless chin and pointed at my beard with nods of approval and a cackle of unintelligible Chinese.

TRAVEL: December 1998 -

This location has earned an over-all four-and-a-half star (very good+) rating from
Travel Fanatics Unlimited
****1/2

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	world travel asia china guilin reed flute cave ***		world travel asia china guilin jingjiang king mausoleum museum ****1/2

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