Today we spent our last day in Xi’an by visiting the Wild Goose Pagoda. A famous monk, who was responsible for bringing the scrolls and inscriptions of Buddhism from India to China, requested the emperor to build this pagoda to house the scrolls and doctrines of Buddhism. This was the Pagoda that was built.
Eli had to take a moment to rock out with the local musicians.
We took a flight to Guilin and when we arrived, it was quite a bit different from the other two cities we’ve been to, with beautiful rice patties and picturesque mountains. There are only 700,000 people who live in Guilin. However, 11 million foreign tourists visit Guilin every year to see the beautiful countryside and scenery and 10 million domestic tourists visit the city to see the tourists. Apparently they want to ask you to take a photo with them, our local guide suggested we charge 100 Yuan. Hee hee. I’ll let you know if I make any money. ;) Our guide also told us that snake dinner is popular here. She said that the snakes are in cages in the front of the restaurant...people don't order from a menu page by page but instead cage by cage. Yikes! I'll try to find a good restaurant to photograph while I'm here, but I may pass on the snake dinner.
We stopped at Fubo Hill (first picture) on the west bank of the Li River and climbed to the top to take in the wonderful view. Oh and check out this really random garbage can…it is so incognito! (It is your lucky day, extra credit to the first student who can post the root meaning of incognito.)
Then we went down to the cave underneath the hill which translates to Pearl Returned Cave (I forget the name in Chinese). The short story on the name is that a boy stole a pearl from a man in the cave and it rained and rained because of his action. His mother found out what he had done and told him to return the pearl and when he did the rain stopped. Inside the cave there were all sorts of inscriptions and carvings like this lucky Buddha; you touch the foot and your wish comes true.
In the park of Fubo Hill, we also saw the oldest and largest rice cooker ever! It was called the “Thousand Men Pot” and it holds enough rice for 1000 soldiers. It dates back to 1663 AD. Crazy!
Tonight we are going on a night tour of Guilin…I’ll tell you more about it tomorrow. I’m off to dinner.
Eli had to take a moment to rock out with the local musicians.
We took a flight to Guilin and when we arrived, it was quite a bit different from the other two cities we’ve been to, with beautiful rice patties and picturesque mountains. There are only 700,000 people who live in Guilin. However, 11 million foreign tourists visit Guilin every year to see the beautiful countryside and scenery and 10 million domestic tourists visit the city to see the tourists. Apparently they want to ask you to take a photo with them, our local guide suggested we charge 100 Yuan. Hee hee. I’ll let you know if I make any money. ;) Our guide also told us that snake dinner is popular here. She said that the snakes are in cages in the front of the restaurant...people don't order from a menu page by page but instead cage by cage. Yikes! I'll try to find a good restaurant to photograph while I'm here, but I may pass on the snake dinner.
We stopped at Fubo Hill (first picture) on the west bank of the Li River and climbed to the top to take in the wonderful view. Oh and check out this really random garbage can…it is so incognito! (It is your lucky day, extra credit to the first student who can post the root meaning of incognito.)
Then we went down to the cave underneath the hill which translates to Pearl Returned Cave (I forget the name in Chinese). The short story on the name is that a boy stole a pearl from a man in the cave and it rained and rained because of his action. His mother found out what he had done and told him to return the pearl and when he did the rain stopped. Inside the cave there were all sorts of inscriptions and carvings like this lucky Buddha; you touch the foot and your wish comes true.
In the park of Fubo Hill, we also saw the oldest and largest rice cooker ever! It was called the “Thousand Men Pot” and it holds enough rice for 1000 soldiers. It dates back to 1663 AD. Crazy!
Tonight we are going on a night tour of Guilin…I’ll tell you more about it tomorrow. I’m off to dinner.
4 comments:
the root meaning of incognito is cogn, which is know.
aaron rady
the root meaning of incognio is cogn, which is know
nate gross
kenny says wuzzup
Looks like the rice cooker your Grandma gave you for Christmas!
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