River town
October 3rd 2007 In a bid to escape the hordes and the hotel prices of Yangshuo, we decamped upstream to Xingping, whose own karst-surrounded stretch of the Li River is so renowned that it features on the back of the 20 yuan note. Rooms were a little less astronomically priced here, but the quality was lower and it also turned out to be an unsuitable base.
Misty karst scenery in this region is a mainstay of Ch
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