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Asia » China » Guangxi » Guilin November 27th 2005

Here's how we celebrated our Thanksgiving weekend. We left Saturday morning to go to PingAn, a 600 year old Zhuang minority village about 2 hrs north west of Guilin. It's known for its terraced rice fields and for the women who have the longest hair. They wrap it around their head, but when unwrapped it falls literally to the ground. It is pretty amazing. The village is built on the hillsides where foundations are constructed of 'dry' (no mortar) stacked slate rock. The buildings are all wood construction, a contast to the usual concrete block construction seen everywhere else. Most of the terraced rice fields had all been harvested and were awaiting planting in the spring. A few of the lower fields did have water in them. Irrigation is by an extensive system of bamboo pipes ... read more

Yangshuo II

Asia » China » Guangxi » Yangshuo November 23rd 2005

WillonAsia

On the last day of our short stay in Yangshuo we climbed moon hill to get a great view and take some photos...... read more

Yangshuo

Asia » China » Guangxi » Yangshuo November 18th 2005

The countryside...

WillonAsia

Have been in Yangshuo a couple of days, its very pretty (like Ha Long Bay on land), weve been for a couple of bike rides and here are the pictures...... read more

Small entry

Asia » China » Guangxi » Yangshuo November 18th 2005

The saving grace of the YMR - the view to the right from our balcony

TravellingKate

Yangshuo - 18.11.05 After 3 days and 2 nights of almost non-stop travel it was great to finally arrive in Yangshuo. We've been here a couple of days and have had a quick wander around the town and gone biking into the countryside. We have also changed hotels due to a duff tip from some other travellers - they raved about the Yangshuo Mountain Retreat so we thought we'd give it a try but it was way overpriced and the food was dreadful. Grr. We've only got another day here before we set off for our next destination - about which I am very very excited! Below are a couple of pictures of Yangshuo and the surrounding scenery. Lots of love xxx ... read more

Yangshou

Asia » China » Guangxi » Guilin November 9th 2005

Rice fields along the river

Edmichel

We had a great week in Yangshou, enjoying the great food, fantastic scenery, and the very slow pace of the town. Several days we rented bikes and just toured around the rural countryside, among the rice fields, seeing people working the field, fishing, and the occasional water buffalo all surrounded by the beautiful karsts. There are hundreds of them and make a beautiful backdrop for the countryside. We took a bus to Xingping along the Li River but the water is so low, we were not able to take the boat ride back to Yangshou. So the next day we biked along the Yulong River and returned by putting the bikes on a a tiny bamboo raft amd enjoyed the most peaceful 2 hr ride on the river. While walking around town we saw a reader ... read more

Hello from Yangsho, Guangxi, China

Asia » China » Guangxi » Yangshuo November 8th 2005

pggo

Since we return from Zhongxan (our Oct 24), we were preparing for our "big trip". On Oct 28, we joined a tour from Hong Kong and visited Guilin, Yangsho, Siu Hing. The tour took us to all kinds of shopping but very few sights. However, the 4 day tour was still enjoyable. At the end of the tour, we did not return to Hong Kong. We asked the tour bus driver to drop us off at Sanshui, Guangdong, China. Sanshui is now part of Foshan, just west of Guangzhou. Phyllis' father grew up in Sanshui, but has not returned since he left for Hong Kong in his teens. Phyllis wants to find some roots and through her cousin, found a way to contact the folks in Sanshui. We have published two albums, one of Phyllis' relatives, ... read more

Un-Easy Rider

Asia » China » Guangxi » Yangshuo November 7th 2005

Dali

Carolee and Jay

Yangshuo is the unofficial convergence site of backpacker China. There's this pedestrian-only street, Xi Jie ("West Street") that is 3 blocks long, full of cafes, bars, clubs and trinket stalls to cater strictly to ole Whitey. You'll hear James Blunt in the cafes and Maroon 5 in the bars, and have your pick of pancakes, hash browns, pizza and burgers to remind you of home. More likely than not, you will run into someone you may have met earlier in your travels here. Our first night out, we ran into a Finnish girl (whom we first met while in Mongolia over a month ago), who was now travelling with a UK friend who was accompanied by a Canadian girl who ran into 2 French girls that were now running with a San Francisco couple. No joke. ... read more

some pictures for you....

Asia » China » Guangxi » Guilin November 3rd 2005

finally found someone to take our picture

David and Tanuja

Check it out - we borrowed a gadget and now you can see some of what we've been up to for the last 10 weeks. ... read more

Yangshuo

Asia » China » Guangxi » Yangshuo November 3rd 2005

Li River

Edmichel

Pictures from around the Yangshuo area. Well it took all that time to get the pictures downloaded. Spending the week in Yanshuo and having a great time. It is quite the oasis with beautiful scenery (this was the scenery we expected along the Yangtse), great food, and a very nice place to stay with a balcony looking over the river. We will write more later.... read more

Yangshuo

Asia » China » Guangxi » Yangshuo October 23rd 2005

Rio Li

marietacano

Despues del autobus de la muerte, cogimos directamente otro autobus desde Guilin hasta Yangshuo, solo tardo 1 hora. A la salida de la estacion in tipo vino hacia nosotros ofreciendonos su hotel, de verdad que no lo queriamos y por ese hecho redujo el precio de la habitacion de una manera ridicula, estamos pagando 4 Euros por noche por una habitacion doble, en un hotel muy limpio y con CUARTO DE BANYO!!!No nos podemos quejar en el hostal estariamos pagando lo mismo pero compartiendo habitacion con otras 4 personas. Yangshuo es un localidad muy tranquila a las orillas del rio Li, el escenario es espectacular, montanyas de roca calcica, como a las que estamos acostumbrados a asociar con Brasil. Hay un mercado de comida cada noche cerca de nuestro hotel con una gran variedad de comida ... read more

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