Lesson 2: Make sure your arse is adequately padded when attempting a 50km bike ride

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November 14th 2007

Published: November 29th 2007

Our 'express' bus to Yangshuo only took 8 hours and evidently included a meal for free, so we were told by a Chinese woman who spoke a little English. At some point between peeing into a trough and comparing buses in the car park to see which was best (ours was of course) we both must have missed out on the no doubt delicious (ahem!) meal. Before we tell you about Yangshuo please do check out ou... Read Full Entry

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Donna and Neil

We saved for 3 years and then went Hoff to travel the world. Chris Columbus and Magellan eat your heart out...do you reckon other people will have already discovered the places we are going to? You bet! About Us Neil, originally from Hartlepool, UK and Donna, originally from the Wirral, UK have known each other for 19 years. We bought a house, got cushy jobs in Nottingham and always had a passion to travel and see what more was out there in the big wide world (sounds corny or what?). The opportunity came when we were both made redundant and given nice r... full info

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another Yangshou street

karsts that loom over Yangshou

Woman pretending to make silk in the pretend silk shop in the pretend authentic chinese village

Typical Yangshou street scene

Fawlty Towers in China

oh how we laughed and we laughed and decided it wasnt actually very funny!

it's hard work this

Drifters restaurant

nice, good food and most of all...cheap!

aHHH winter clothes

feels ...er....weird!

Donna in the hazy countryside surrounding Yangshuo

thus was before the grumpy mood...

Neil beckons for Donna to catch up

this is how we felt after carrying our rucksacks for 2kms

Say what Donna?...you can spy a limestone karst?

barge to carry our cycles across a dead end

we got lost..the road ended at a river and the result was that we were exploited for the journey across.

This was Bob ...

he was an American tour guide who worked in Yangshou...he also had got lost!

Water buffalo near Yangshou

Bamboo boats

they are the tourist gimmick thats sweeping Yangshou by storm!

At least some of it was Tranquil...ish

this is for Donna's dad

as we have said before, no he doesn't have a tunnel fetish!

29th November 2007

lonelybiker
Alex

I must go there
Hun!It looks so great!I will go there someday!

29th November 2007

Jane from Vietnam
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Been there done that
This is so funny because we did exactly the same thing when we went biking around the country in Yangshao, including having to pay to get our bikes rafted across the river and having to speak in sign language to get directions.

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