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Travel Blogs from Yangshuo
Install drain plug before attempting to float
... home that can be rented for a fairly good price. We were ready to ditch the tour in an instant but found the strength to get back on our bikes (bums already complaing) and continue our cycle. As we cycled from village to village we saw old ladies working, children playing, water buffaloes in a field and bamboo rafts gliding down the river. A pit stop for lunch and a very long wait for Mariosa's fried rice and we were on the ...
Mountains on the water
I don't know where to start. We arrived in Guilin, found our hotel and slept and slept, sadly missing the rice terrace tour early the next morning, but waking refreshed and prepared to explore Guilin. The weather was humid, the air tropical, the river wound it's way through the city, past pagodas, twisting and turning into lakes. There was a relaxed vibe (for china) people dozed in the shade, we picked a few sites to see and meandered along the river paths. A youngish man called out ...
China part II: On our way
... spierpijn behalve Kuan natuurlijk want hij is een bikkel en heel stoer en o ja hij heeft net de London Marathon achter de rug... Grote trekpleister hier is de West Lake. Vol spierpijn toch een rondje om het meer gelopen (15 km) en 's avonds nog een half rondje. We hebben ook nog fietsen gehuurd, waarbij het eerste uur gratis is en het tweede uur 1 ...
Über den Abgründen
... es, verliert sich in Andeutungen, we***** noch, kriecht ins dichte Gehölz, ist schließlich vollends verschwunden. Ich gehe weiter, der Illussion folgend ihn wieder zu entdecken, klettere den Hang hinauf. Meine Schritte dringen in den matschigen Boden, immer wieder rutsche ich aus, stehe auf, stolpere weiter in Richtung eines vermeintlichen Gipfels, eines Weges zurück. Zurück wohin, weiß ich das noch, oder vielmehr, ist es noch ...
An endless painting
... very beautiful but like everything in China they have made it rather tacky with putting multicoloured lights and signs everywhere with obscure names of the rock formations. The Chinese supposedly really like it and if our guide is accurate they get 25 million Chinese tourists and only 1.2 million foreigners (who mostly agree with the tackiness) so they cater to the people who spend the most money I suppose. We quickly stopped off at a Chinese ...