Sunday, July 13, 2008

Sights of Guilin

We were met by our guide who yanked us back to Guilin for a tour around. Our first stop Fu Bo Hill with various cool things. Below is the "thousand man bowl" This iron pot suposedly was used to cook rice and the amount could eed 1,000 men. I presonally imagine that 1,000 modern men would eat WAY more rice than that. Inside the hill was a small budist temple where you could pay money to free a turtle. The turtle symbol appears all the time in Chinese mythology as it means longevity. The Budists protect and encourage turtles in thier temples.
There was also this rock formation that if you put your hand under it you will do well on your eximanations. We all did it.


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