so here's the view from our hotel right here that is a nice view you can see the the reservoir right
here the river going right through the middle like this and all the all the freaking mountains
this way in the rain oh yeah looks like Guilin. Guiling/Yangshuo area but this this sounds a lot
lot smaller that looks to be a sports stadium of some kind right there probably basketball
it's always basketball here in China so yeah the hotel room is is nice though this is a 194 yuan a
night so like 25 dollars something like that 25 US dollars that's a good it's a good deal it's a good
deal it's got a gym it's got a Chinese and Western restaurant stuff like that it's alright we're at
this zhuang minority restaurant and they've got more of that sweet tea so I've had it twice in
a row actually yeah you'll see like the waitresses they're all wearing the traditional zhuang clothes
and stuff like that the minority clothes and there's more of those little little balls there
so I guess those are from the drawing minority let's stop the video here and let's talk about
these little balls right here these embroidered silk balls they I mean they look really cool
they're they're beautiful they're they're they're filled with sawdust they're pretty pretty solid
but also very light and they're decorated with all kinds of little things stars and birds and trees
and this kind of thing so originally these were used as like weapons of war they were like made
of bronze and and all kinds of other metals and they you know I imagine they would do some damage
if you got knocked in the dome with that but then the fascinating thing was it became a sort of part
of the culture and it sort of shifted into the opposite of war they became of tokens of love so
the zhuang minority people would gather around and men and women would be split into different groups
and the women would see a man that they liked and they would take the balls and they would throw
them to this man and the man would catch him I guess if he'd liked the woman and if he liked
the woman he would attach a little gift to the to the ball I guess via this string or something or
other and then throw it back and if the woman accepted the gift then it means she had agreed
to a date and this is it kind of died out during the Cultural Revolution and then it's been making
a comeback in terms of tourism and trying to preserve the local culture so it's fascinating you
see these all over guangxi everywhere everywhere everywhere so anyway back to the video there is
a pagoda on top of this mountain look at that how in the heck do you get up there that is a
straight shot up with the air drop people in and air drop materials it's nobody's climbing up there
here we are tongling Canyon this is what I mean this place looks beautiful there's a cave there's
of course you know the canyon itself you can look down there's a bend in the river around
some mountains you know yeah here's a quick map of the park you can see right here it's quite a
big area quite a big area and yeah it's it's built up very developed there's already a bunch of tour
buses here boys have CBI there's the cave right there and with the cliff coffin burial so they
might have hanging coffins who knows hidden gold cave-in yeah it just follows the river all the
way along there you go ending with the waterfalls right there so yeah let's get in fog is increasing
visibility is decreasing yeah can't see too much get into like rainforest kind of kind of stuff
that know what that is coming up on our first tre now these people all that makes traveling here a
headache there just let it come with speakers or megaphones these aren't the worst because
they're not wearing matching clothing but yeah it's they're so annoying because for some reason
the main Chinese people just don't like traveling alone they would rather like travel with like 20
other people all wearing the same thing guided by a megaphone plane I just don't understand how
traveling they don't want to they don't want to make their own decisions I am rather someone else
make all the decisions for them they would rather someone else you know figure everything out cuz
they just think it's easier and they think it's better it's not ah it just makes everything worse
my piece of advice for you is no matter what the difference in cost is no matter how difficult it
might be always travel independently never ever ever ever travel one of those fruits because
if somehow the mood of the book the place the ambiance is ruined by lots of like metal shacks
and Hut's put up just in the middle of the path to sell that's that's typical Chinese
tourism you know immediately before you enter a park there's gonna be a little village like
this selling tourist stuff and then when you get in the park especially if it's a big Park
there'll be another little village and selling the same stuff that's that's how it goes here
you know that's how the money's made this country had such amazing places places that
are just simply unbelievable places that are stunning places that you can hardly believe
even exist but then when you actually get to them and see what's around these places it just makes
you kind of sad because they've just become money bags you know holy crap look at this
that thing is massive man
hope it turns out well on the on the camera can't see all that well but that's majestic
man you can feel the water coming out this thing not just I mean there's wind
blowing it's not just a mist I mean yes that is just water coming straight up
but I can't even see man my my glasses are so so messed up I have to I have to
keep doing this you know look under my glut cuz I can't I can't see anything
apparently this is actually san die ling so like the three folds the triple full
waterfall and oh geez yeah the water is just coming coming right off the rate
it's right by the sudden the highway okay just like it just keeps spreading I guess
that's why they call it the triple fold because it's here here and here
amazing oh yeah the it's funny you can see the expressway there you've got this provincial road
right here tunnels and all of that and then this gorgeous waterfall right here beside it