Travel day to Guilin - Elephant Trunk Hill

I jumped on a plane early this morning, said “See you later” to Shanghai and flew to Guilin. Shanghai is midway up the eastern coast of China - and Guilin is heading West into the interior about 1/4 of the way across the country, slightly south. It is a very mountainous region.

I’ve been completely dependent on metro’s until today - which has been fantastic! But It wasn’t running this morning when I needed to head to the airport and Guilin has no mass transport so … I had to figure out how to use their version of Uber - called “DiDi”. It went pretty smoothly actually - and boy is it cheap. A 45 min ride from the airport came in at $7, and 10 min rides around town run about 75 cents!

I went over to “Elephant Trunk Hill” for the afternoon - a BEAUTIFUL park, and as you can see, named because a rock formation looks like an elephant. Then wandered thru a “pedestrian street” and grabbed some meat skewers for dinner before calling it an early night.

My hotel is AWESOME! $39 got me a whole lot - they even delivered me a plate of fresh fruit as a “welcome gift”! Sad to only be spending one night here.

Steps: 14,333
Miles: 5.87Read more