... ) Anyway, I digress...it rained through the night, and it was still raining this morning. We decided to head out to the watercaves, hot springs and mud baths thinking that it doesn't matter if it's raining because we will be in the caves under ...
... for an hour or so before going ashore for a photo session - see piccies attached!
This morning six of us went caving - there are many watercaves in the area (caves with underground streams) and a few of them are open to the public. Access to this ...
... a mountain with a hole in it. As you drive along the main road, there are lots of tourist attractions to see such as watercaves. We turned down onto a side street to try and see some more countryside outside of the main tourist area.The road led to a ...
... to that, a series of caves have been opened up not far from the Moon Hill, which go by such names as the Black Buddha Cave, New WaterCaves and Dragon Cave. But I had no time for all of it, so I just wanted to get to the full-moon hole.
The food came ...
... we rose early in order to avoid the feared Chinese tour groups, Have Breakfast, Hire Bicycles, and Head Off - out towards the watercaves that we had read about... Everything went almost according to plan and we had the pick of the rental bicycles (Full ...
... & man with a buffalo walking up the track. Always something to look at !!! We then stopped off at the Dragon Cave & waterCaves & our guide was getting very upset that we didn't want to do any of these tours of 2 - 3 hours. ...
... in Yangshuo, which lasted about two hours.
After the bamboo raft, we got back on our bikes and rode down to the watercaves. This was *much* better than the cave in Guilin, and much more authentic. Towards the end we had the ...
... remember all the toasts about my hiking skills or lack thereof.
After the steep climb down the mountain, we headed into the underground watercaves across the street. We got to hike inside these cool (cool temp and cool looking) caves for a few hours. ...
... (my red-eye was “redder” and clearly needed a some whitening urgently! For now, just the left eye), the watercaves was today's activity: it’s an old cave with some beautiful natural rock and gem formations along with a mud bath area ...
After Guilin I needed another pleasant village to finish my writing. Yangshuo was perfect as it offers many opportunities for biking, trekking, swimming and climbing. All good breaks from the hours in front of a PC. I took a bamboo boat from ...