Day 1 We arrived Wednesday lunch time from Guilin to the hustle of Yangshuo, after a bus journey giving us tantalising snippets of the natural beauty we were about to see. Sadly, after ariving in our Hotel on West Street (essentially tourist hell street packed with hostels, bars, souvenir shops and tour companies) and having a spot of lunch we decided to ignore the many offers of a guide and go off into the countryside on our own, on one of the hotest days they have had here, on a tandem. After numerous scares on the main road out of town, we got lost. Almost immediately. In fact we could still see town as we scrabbled down dirt paths through rice fields pushing the rather underwhelming tandem to its limits. This was the first time on
... read more