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przedFrom Guilin, we took a river cruise down the Li River to Yangshuo. Our guide told us we'd see 28,000 mountains on the route, which seemed an exaggeration before the trip, but entirely possible once we were on the river.
Here we are on the top of our cruise boat.
This is the river ahead. It was a non-stop stream of cruise boats ahead and behind.
Whee!
This one really gives you the scale of the mountains.
I like the way the sun is just peeking through the clouds here.
Since the cruise was four hours, there was lunch served on board. All of the cruise boats had their kitchens on the back.
You can see the rows of smaller tourist boats on the shore here.
Once we got to Yangshuo, our guide arranged a short tour on a fisherman's bamboo raft. The rafts each had two bamboo seats on them, and the raft's captain stood behind you and poled down the river. This is Ros sitting between us.
This is the raft pointing towards a small dam. Our guide told us to make sure we put our feet up every time we went over a dam. That was because the front of the raft went right under water. The first dam, Ros didn't get her feet up fast enough. Fortunately, she was wearing her rubber boots.
This is the resort we were staying at in Yangshuo. It was about ten minutes outside town, and it was lovely. If we go back, we definitely want to spend a few days here.
Here's the building our room was in. There were tables out front where we had our dinner.
Ros with one of the staff that she had wrapped around her finger.
This was the view from the balcony of our room.
This is one of the main streets in Yangshuo. It's a very touristy town, but the mountains all through it make up for the kitsch value.
On the way back from Yangshuo, we stopped off in a place named, I kid you not, Shangri-La. It was a Dong minority village that our guide told us had recently been renamed for PR purposes. These are the totem poles in the main square.
You could take a river cruise through the village. This is the boat next to us.
This was a band that played for the boats.
The view from the prow of the boat.
The boat went through a cave on the cruise. This was the opening of the cave.
And this was coming through the other side of the cave.
Ros insisted on pushing this grinder herself.
More koi that Ros could feed. These were the fattest, laziest fish was saw on the trip. Most of them couldn't even be arsed to go after the food Ros threw them.
These were the farm fields surrounding the village.
The view through a window in the main hall.
Here we are on the top of our cruise boat.
This is the river ahead. It was a non-stop stream of cruise boats ahead and behind.
Whee!
This one really gives you the scale of the mountains.
I like the way the sun is just peeking through the clouds here.
Since the cruise was four hours, there was lunch served on board. All of the cruise boats had their kitchens on the back.
You can see the rows of smaller tourist boats on the shore here.
Once we got to Yangshuo, our guide arranged a short tour on a fisherman's bamboo raft. The rafts each had two bamboo seats on them, and the raft's captain stood behind you and poled down the river. This is Ros sitting between us.
This is the raft pointing towards a small dam. Our guide told us to make sure we put our feet up every time we went over a dam. That was because the front of the raft went right under water. The first dam, Ros didn't get her feet up fast enough. Fortunately, she was wearing her rubber boots.
This is the resort we were staying at in Yangshuo. It was about ten minutes outside town, and it was lovely. If we go back, we definitely want to spend a few days here.
Here's the building our room was in. There were tables out front where we had our dinner.
Ros with one of the staff that she had wrapped around her finger.
This was the view from the balcony of our room.
This is one of the main streets in Yangshuo. It's a very touristy town, but the mountains all through it make up for the kitsch value.
On the way back from Yangshuo, we stopped off in a place named, I kid you not, Shangri-La. It was a Dong minority village that our guide told us had recently been renamed for PR purposes. These are the totem poles in the main square.
You could take a river cruise through the village. This is the boat next to us.
This was a band that played for the boats.
The view from the prow of the boat.
The boat went through a cave on the cruise. This was the opening of the cave.
And this was coming through the other side of the cave.
Ros insisted on pushing this grinder herself.
More koi that Ros could feed. These were the fattest, laziest fish was saw on the trip. Most of them couldn't even be arsed to go after the food Ros threw them.
These were the farm fields surrounding the village.
The view through a window in the main hall.
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