Yangshuo Guest Houses - Comments and Reviews

i'm now writing from yangshuo in the guangxi province of china. we left lijiang early the morning after the climb but not before going out with new found friends the night before for tibetan food. around the table at Lamu's Tibetan Restaurant were two korean-americans (that would be eunice and i), two french-canadians (the people from quebec alw...

We've come to the little town of Yangshuo but it's mobbed as it's a very pretty place - lots of limestone karsts everywhere - and it is Golden Week, a week long national holiday*. We've spent the past 2 days cycling around paddy fields near to a little river in amongst the karsts. Great fun although quite hot and humid today and a little boggy ...

After a full evening of fun we woke up to rain this morning. After a hearty American/Chinese breakfast we headed out with "Wendy" a tour guide we picked up at a bike rental shop. We rode through muddy paths and ended up in the middle of nowhere surrounded by the amazing limestone karasts. The bikes were bootleg Wal-Mart brand and took some getti...

Jude and I were invited to visit Mu San, an ancient village in the hills surrounding Yangshuo, by Canadian Laurie Mackenzie, who runs the V.E.T. (Volunteer English Teachers) program in some of the very poorest village schools in the area. He was taking four of his volunteer teachers to the village school for the afternoon (one from the US, two f...

Nee hao guys Disembarked in Chongquing at 8.30am, for some reason we had a local guide called Amy, who made us get off the bus and walk across a busy road, up a lift and through the town centre only to get our bus again in a different place, (some local guides are a complete waste of time and money and Amy was one of them). This is a really mode...

The boat cruise from Guilin to Yanshuo was pretty spectacular, but at $50 one of the more expensive tourist options in China. Hundreds of people a day take the boat tour on a fleet of at least 30 shallow-hulled river boats. Our particular boat was full of a rouge's gallery of weirdos from around the world. There was the red state American with h...

Yangshuo was the first stop in my travel journey in China. This small town lies in Southern China, in the northeast of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, which boarders with Vietnam. Its history can be traced back to 590 AD, though nothing left from that age. The town is surrounded by mountains and rivers. The famous Li River (Li-Jiang? with beau...