Tyler Acorn

Tyler Acorn

Tyler Acorn

Mining Engineer who lives in Nevada. I travel when I can.. When I can't I play around in the mountains outside of my newest home town.



Asia » China » Guangxi » Xingping February 28th 2012

So, We made it back to Yangshuo after a night in Xingping. This time without the early morning adventures. Xingping was beautiful. We had lots of fun there depsite the constant rain and the "wet cold" that the rain brought with it. It's a small enough rural town and that we saw no modern heating except in our hostel. It was pretty peaceful, and quiet. You don't notice how used to the city noises you get until you leave them behind! The Hostel itself was great (called "this old place hostel"). They even had firebrick oven roasted pizza that was pretty good. We splurged twice and went western with the pizza. We had great plans of taking full advantage of the rural setting to go hiking, and biking, and see some caves, etc.... After an overnight ... read more
Fire Brick Oven
Rain and the back of the 20y

Asia » China » Guangxi » Yangshuo February 26th 2012

Arrived in Yangshuo this morning on our way to Xingping. Met some fun traveler's on the overnight bus. A couple of guys from Germany, a slovakian, and an Israeli. Guy (the Israeli) was on a 6 month trip through Asia! Sounds amazing. Maybe that will be me one of these days. Thankfully 3 of the guys we met on the bus were also stopping off in Yangshuo, for we definitely had to put up with some hassling from a couple of locals as soon as we got off the bus. They kept trying to tell Merilie and I that no buses were going to xinping today cause it was not a "Market" day, but they of course could take us for the low price of 180y. If this happens to you... just walk away. 2 of ... read more
Xinping




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