Adventures

On January 8, 2006, our group visited a museum, cave, and exam house. The museum had paintings of various Chinese emperors and also contained landscape images posted on the wall. The exam house was a place where a former emperor took his final exam to gain power which lasted three days and three nights. Following that, we saw the magnificent cave with natural formations. One of the exhibits had a cave formation resembling a dragon, and another one looked like a fisherman. After the cave visit, we ventured to the GXNU Wangcheng campus. We climbed over three hundred stairs and looked out over the entire city of Guilin. At night, we paid a visit to the pedestrian mall. Street venders lined the roads and people came up to us hoping that we would buy their products. They were very pushy and this area became very overwhelming. Our group was especially careful because, being American, we were prime targets of pick pockets. A group of three men even followed two of my friends and me around the mall. We quickly retreated to a well-lit area and did not return to the market. It was so much fun to experience night life in Guilin, and I definitely learned more about the culture.