... up into the air. I've recently seriously contemplated becoming a vegetarian.
The next day we boarded a boat for a cruise down the LijiangRiver to Yangshuo. Yangshuo reminded me a little of a ski town, nestled in the mountains and full of quaint ...
... ago. We have two nights and three days to do a multitude of things including a river cruise on the LijiangRiver, seeing a light show, going on a cycle tour tomorrow out into the countryside etc. It is a beautiful destination, full of western comforts. ...
... land rather than on islands. I'm very much loving Yangshuou... a beautiful holiday retreat in the southern regions of China. There is a lot to do here, including a river cruise that we did today. It was like a bit of de ja vu... for the river cruise ...
... has inspired many Chinese poets and artists and the landscape even appears on the Chinese 20 Yuan note. 'One hundred miles LijiangRiver, One hundred miles art gallery' is no overstatement and together with the Chinese couplet: ‘The river winds ...
... their picture but then said you'd have to pay. Argh.
The next day we headed out of Guilin south toward Yangshuo on the LijiangRiver. We took a flat bottom boat down the really shallow Li River...it looked 3 feet deep at the most! A couple of ...
... nbsp; Organized chaos. This is a performance like you have never seen or experienced before.
An area of 2 kms along LijiangRiver and 12 peaks as stage setting, tighter with boundless sky, compose the Shanshui Theatre with mountains and rivers ...
... 8: Yangshuo. This was our final part of China. Boo hoo!
Our journey here involved getting a small cruise up the LijiangRiver which is 437 kilometers. We only covered 80 kilometers of this though at 10mph! We passed hidden caves rice paddies, ...
... 't have cheered. Our scores for diving were humiliating!
The end of our Guilin trip led to our cruise down the Lijiangriver to Yangsho. This place was even more beautiful than Guilin if this was at all possible.
Lois & David ...
... delicious lunch. Han Yu, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, had written a popular poem to praise the beautiful scenery of the LijiangRiver. And this is probably the most painted scenery in all of China, I'm sure we have all seen these ink paintings in ...
... up for Saturday so I said zaijian and headed out. The nice girl at the Wada desk told me that I might enjoy a stroll along the LijiangRiver rather than walking to the train station and taking the bus into to the city center. Since it was a nice morning ...