Road to Beijing Day 9! (James clearly can't be trusted to write this as yesterday, last entry, was actually day 8). Raining so like home from home, although still late 20's Li River cruise was amazing, 4hrs on the river through very similar landscapes yet neither one of us was bored, it was probably the most beautiful scenery I've ever seen. You do need to have an imagination though as every few minutes the guides point at a hill and tell you it is Budda/horse/elephant head/mirror cloaked in silk veil (?). Yangshou is very beautiful and very touristy-not lager louts from Essex, chinese tourists, so we are in fact still freaks here and stared at, in fact yesterday we even got filmed eating our food-twice. A little fed up of non distinguishable meat in sauce and
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