Yangshuo, China Travel Blogs

River Cruisin'
Jul 6, 2005 (7 photos)

... and we find out that a few of them will study abroad (Australia) next year, which is fairly rare for Chinese students. Another dinner and another night of lazing about is how we end another relaxing day in Yangshuo...that is what you do here by the way!!

I fought food poisoning and lost!
Jan 29, 2005 (3 photos)

Couldnt sleep again and the weather is really pissing me off! haha On Sunday, I'll take an overnight sleeper bus to Shenzen (China/Hong Kong border), so I decide to wait until Sunday to go biking, hoping that the weathr will be better and thinking that I ...

Eight bites of a mysterious nature
Apr 12, 2007 (7 photos)

... and I think it has effected my writing. Once we finally got to Guilin, we still had another hour on a bus to get to Yangshuo, our final destination. We got here and plopped down our bags and were definitely to stay in one place for more than just a few ...

Back to Yangshuo
Jul 2, 2005 (9 photos)

... everyone else in the bus. As I said, a sleepless night followed...... ...and upon arriving in Guilin we grabbed a bus to Yangshuo, where I had already been but was relegated to doing nothing the whole time I was there as the weather sucked and I had ...

Biking through a painting
Apr 23, 2007 (11 photos)

... of bringing in tourists that its main street has probably more signs and menus in English than the rest of China combined. Yangshuo is filled with guesthouses, pubs, shops, and tour agencies vending anything a traveler could possibly desire. Don't think ...

WWOOFing in China - working on organic farms
Nov 24, 2008

... Then he heard about organic farming from Taiwanese friends. He read some books and was intrigued. He spent six months driving around China, looking at conventional farms. Fear Of A 'Silent Spring' What Luo saw terrified him, he says. Agriculture was ...

Yanghsou - The Most Beautiful Place in China
Jun 7, 2005 (13 photos)

Well we arrived here after a 27 hour (yes thats right - 27 hours) train journey from Shanghai. We got into Guilin which is about 60 miles from Yangshou at 10pm and got on a bus which drove through pitch darkness in the pissings of rain for an hour before ...

Bike Ride & Tai Chi
Jun 18, 2008 (62 photos)

After breakfast at 7.30 am it was off on our 30km Bike Ride into the Chinese Countryside....Lorna was not a happy bunny at this time!! The route that we took was fantastic, the sceneray was awesome. We went by the Butterfly Cave and Moon Hill and got ...

Chengdu to Yangshuo
Sep 3, 2007 (21 photos)

... ; Fortunately for us, on the noticeboard in the hostel, someone was asking for two people to share a four seater boat to Yangshuo (over proposed destination) the following day.!! What a stroke of luck.  So we made the arrangements to meet them in ...

China it up... again
Apr 30, 2006 (19 photos)

... Guangzhou, I thought I would fulfil the musical requirement, belatedly nonetheless. Top 5 songs describing the first days in Yangshuo: 5. Another day in Paradise - Phil Collins 4. Cloud Factory - Clouds 3. River of Dreams - Billy Joel 2. Summer ...

Cormorants and Karst Scenery
May 2, 2005 (28 photos)

... 'tourist trap' atmosphere can be easily escaped by getting out of the town centre and into the surrounding unspoilt countryside. Yangshuo is a great place to use as a base for exploring and all manner of transport is available for hire, mountain bikes, ...

Long Road to China
Apr 11, 2006 (5 photos)

... to with a "Ni Huo" always resulted in a laugh - what did I say? There are a quite a few other foreigners in Yangshuo and it does have a touristy feel to it with many western styled restaurants and bars all with English menus but that still doesn't ...

Great Walls and Warriors
Jul 24, 2004 (19 photos)

... of us stumbling to our beds in beijing. In Shanghai it was enough to buy one beer. It will though get you to the top of the Jinmao Tower, China's tallest building, with views of more concrete than you've seen in your wildest dreams!

Up River
Apr 14, 2006 (4 photos)

... I needed little arm twisting to make me stay for it anyway. The walk was good and allowed me to escape the crowds of Yangshuo for a few hours and meet a few inquisitive locals along the way with me still producing laughs and smiles when ever I say "Ni ...

Karst Country (or Hello Banana Land)
May 15, 2005 (2 photos)

... place in your mind exists at Yangshou, where painters have water-colored the karst topography since water colors were invented. Yangshuo makes dreamers dream of a land that may have existed long ago, where nature and man were inseparable, where the land ...

Mud Baths
Jul 4, 2005 (10 photos)

Slept in and then had some food and I got a haircut. Later we went out to the Buddha water cave...we took a local bus, which stops and picks up people along the road for a modest fee (2 Yuan - 25 cents) and were dropped off outside the cave. We bought ...

Yunnan - in search of internet access....
Nov 2, 2003 (9 photos)

... Hong Kong after collecting Visa, took express train to Guangzhou, then 'Hard Sleeper' train to Guilin, then minibus to Yangshuo, stayed four nights in 'Riverside Retreat' enjoying karst (limestone pinnacle) scenery and cycling around, left on Saturday 1 ...

Like Pigs In Mud
Apr 12, 2006 (6 photos)

... to it being too expensive in Japan (1.5 GBP for a single apple is taking the smeg) and been to wary to try it so far in China. After the big breakfast (must have eaten at least half a loaf), I was keen to work it off by joining the others on a bike ride ...

Surviving the Tundra
Jan 31, 2008 (14 photos)

... nbsp; But I know that as soon as it warms up, laowai will be crawling all over this tiny town.    Yangshuo was too clean.  Buildings that were supposed to be white actually were white.  There was no trash on the ...

River Rats
Jul 1, 2007 (47 photos)

... say it ranks with Prague's Staromestke Namesti and Key West for the level of touristy-ness. Anyone who wants to see China and goes to Yangshuo is beautifully deceived. That's not to say it's not a fun place to stop. The scenery is gorgeous, the services ...

Sauce of the Exploding Rabbit
Mar 15, 2006 (8 photos)

... to the fun. I have been warned off dishes containing "White Flower" which is usually tripe! It has been a great week in Yangshuo despite the rain and freezing cold temperatures - I have been wearing all my clothes at once for most of the week.. Have ...

We move to mainland China
Jun 17, 2008 (48 photos)

... 7am!!! I threw a few shapes for 5 minutes then collapsed back into my seat. We then arrived in our destination for two nights - Yangshuo. The hotel we are stopping at as part of this tour is the Hotel Explorer (Jimmys) which is right in the centre of town ...

Return to Yangshuo
May 1, 2006 (8 photos)

... , which is China's train version of 'business class' (although no free champagne or food - unfortunately). Paul has been to Yangshuo before (when Mandy was at home visiting her friends and family in March) so knew the score.... lots of relaxing, drinking ...

Yangshuo
Jun 23, 2005 (9 photos)

Wednesday 22 June: We arrived here in Yangshuo (near Guillin, Guangxi Province) yesterday morning after a night train ride from Yichang. As seems to be our group's custom, we arrived in the driving rain, but the weather has since dried up (it's very hot ...

Yangshuo rocks
Nov 19, 2004

... to sleep long and proofread my writing job. On arrival in Guilin, I hopped on the bus to Yangshuo, one hour south, which lies in the middle of China's most typically Chinese landscape. Look at any old bit of kitschy Chinese pottery and you'll see a ...

I've gone relaxation silly...
May 4, 2006 (33 photos)

... . So, to the Top 5. This topic relates to a matter than has brought me significant enjoyment over my period in CHina. Yangshuo has been better than most. You see, places that are well touristed by westerners are a goldmine for english phrases that ...

Bicycles, Bites and Bamboo Rafts
Aug 7, 2004 (23 photos)

... planet had the same idea, and this is where we eventually found them all after nearly two months of struggling through China, pretty much on our own. We settled into our friendly and cheap as chips guesthouse and feasted everynight on much ...

Chilling out in Yangshuo
Sep 8, 2007 (11 photos)

... Tesco doesn't actually look anything like a chicken you see strutting around a farm.  We were also aware that Qanxi province (where Yangshuo is) is (in)famous for its dog based cuisine. However, I was not prepared for the sight I saw in the market. ...

Boyhood Dream Met:)
Mar 28, 2006

... an absolute crack up and I love being around her. I'm sure we will have many fun times on this trip. We arrived into Yangshuo a few hours ago. We have two nights and three days to do a multitude of things including a river cruise on the Lijiang River, ...

You like BAMBOO!?
Mar 7, 2009

... the evening chatting to the Germans, the same Germans we stalked from Hangzhou 2 weeks ago, and then saw in Guilin. China is indeed a village. I think they were getting creeped out at our stalking, because the left the next morning to Kunming which they ...