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“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard

Monday, September 26, 2011

Unfortunate Setbacks

This Friday marks the beginning of two very important things: Our 10-Day travel vacation, and China’s national golden week. Originally we had planned to take our trip down to Guilin and Yangshuo to see the beautiful karst mountains which are were they filmed the floating mountains for Avatar. We were very excited, but this last thurs we found out that we would not be able to get train tickets to get down there because it’s the holiday week and everyone would be traveling, and apparently Guilin is a very popular vacation spot. We are all super sad that we had to cancel that trip but we managed to work our other arrangements instead. So now our plans are to go on a three day tour to Mt Huangshan which is in the Yellow Mountain range which is another famous scenic spot. Then we’ll head to Suzhou which is a water town with famous gardens and boats you can ride on the canals. Then it’s off to Hangzhou which has been called the “Venice of China” with a huge lake and beautiful scenery. We’re still excited about this new trip, but still a little bummed we can’t go to Guilin. However, we will make the best of it and still have an amazing adventure!

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