Guilin is a touristic town, but first of all it is a large town with nearly a million inhabitants. Large boulevards, large commercial centers, cars - a modernity we had mostly forgotten in Vietnam. However the scale of the city is a bit too large for walkers like us.
However it is nice to be able to walk on the sidewalk without having to be wary of bumping into a motorbike or triping in a hole on the sidewalk ! 
As soon as you get away from downtown the buildings look a bit old. The Chinese also build a lot of collective buildings - another part of that change of scale from Vietnam.
Even the public spaces are well arranged. However Guilin is a tourist place which cares particularly about its looks.
In the morning, a breakfast with a French Galette des Rois !
Then a walk in the cold, cold town, along the river bank. A bit colder and it would snow.
This doesn't prevent some brave souls from swimming in the Li river !
A tourist visit in the middle of the walk : a former administrative palace / examination center. The building had been destroyed by various wars before being rebuilt in 1947.
The regional examination center for the national mandarinate examination - each candidate had his own very small room.
Then we walked up the "Solitary Beauty Peak'
To have a wider view of Guilin, which looks like the Halong bay with buildings instead of the sea.
and finally we leave Guilin towards Yengshou, another tourist town sixty kilometers away.
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