Yangshuo was our favourite place in the whole of China, by quite some considerate distance. There's no doubting you're still in China, but finally there's the carefree feel, wealth of activities, and eating and drinking options of a south-east Asian travellers destination. Not to mention scenery that eats the typical south-east Asian travellers destinations like a banana pancake for breakfast. The signs were good from the start, our flight from Shanghai to Guilin was, like our previous Chinese flight, very comfortable. We then walked straight out of Guilin airport and onto the last two seats on a bus into town. As with every other bus journey in China, we were to the intense interest of the other occupants, being the only westerners onboard. This was exacerbated as those last two seats weren't together. My seat buddy
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