Yangshuo
Travel Blogs from Yangshuo, China
Yangshou, karst dreamscape
From Guangzhou we took a 8 hour bus trip to Yangshuo, the most famous area for "karst" mountains in China. Twenty-seven years ago we arrived at Yangshuo by boat and found a sleepy village with only one hotel that ...
late one...
Crazy day of street food temples, a wasp sting and a manic airport session, now 60 klicks from a country accommodation deep into SE China - just on 2 hour taxi trip to same, tired out - more later ! ...
Xi'an down to picturesque Yangshuo
In the morning we caught a bamboo raft from Guilin with the local fisherman down to Yangshuo. What a way to see China's country side, Yangshuo would be one of the most beautiful little towns you have ever seen, if we did not have pre booked flights we ...
The Li River in Yangshuo
We had time for a bit of rest and relaxation in Yangshuo, our penultimate stop in China before heading over the border to Vietnam. Yangshuo is a small, chilled out town on the banks of the Li River. Our first experience was a day trip by bus from ...
Quiet Time
Yangshou is called a backpackers dream and it doesn't disappoint. There are many things to do here to keep you occupied for well over a week. Yesterday we went on a cruise down the Li River which is very beautiful with the karst landscape at a backdrop. ...
Spiderman
It's a good thing I waited unti the end of the trip to come here. I think if I came here first I probably wouldn't have left. Or I would have gotten spoiled. I went rock climbing for the first time today. It was fun! But my forearms and knees tell a ...
She's down!
... to head back to the hotel to grab dinner before returning to Guilin. On our way back, we stumbled across this bridge, and the most cliché China scene I had seen so far. A man, dressed in a dark blue Mao suit, with a straw hat, long beard and long pipe, ...
Rivers, Rafts and Ridiculousness
"I often sent pictures of the hills of Guilin which I painted to friends back home, but few believed what they saw." - Fan Chengda (Chinese Song Dynasty ...
Nov 12, 2009
20 Yuan
... zurueckzuhupen. Besonders Busse und LKWs sind nervig, weil ihre Hupen ganz offensichtlich nicht fuer chinesische Verkehrsregeln gebaut wurden. In Yangshuo, unserer naechsten Station gibt es leider auch LKWs, aber auch hier waren sie in der Regel nicht so ...

