Guilin Golden Week, China (2)

First full day in Guilin was spent at Seven Stars Park built around 7 hills. Fascinating because it was full of Chinese tourists given it is their national holiday week. The Park is huge with underground caves, a (sad) zoo, temples and displays. Inside the temples are demons, buddhas and venerable statues.

Amongst the old and attractive were the gaudy displays of Disney figures (presumably not paying copyright) scattered haphazardly through the trees and grounds.

In the park were women dressed in minority costume who offered themselves for photographs with the local tourists or wanted their own photos taken with small cute pale 7 year olds.

And the entertainment included the spectacle of trapping small (and not so small) children in plastic bubbles and floating them out on a lake where they flail about helplessly trying to stay upright (unsuccessfully). One can see the attraction of temporarily securing one's children from the outside world.