Ai Yuan Hotel Yangshuo

<br><br>Today we took the boat on the Li River outside of Guilin to Yangshuo. The river was crowded with boats packed with tourists; we were all going to the same place. The scenery was gorgeous. Ths Karst formations (limestone) were prevalent during the entire trip. One of the formations is on the 20 RMB note. Because the water level of the Li was so low (we actually scraped bottom a few times), the trip took 5 ...

... pot restaurant where meat and vegetables are boiled in a pot at your table, like fondue, but anything and everything can be cooked. We had lamb, beef, lotus root and potatoes dipped in sauces of sesame seed (tastes like peanut) and garlic.<br><br>Then back to the airport to see him off. I cried, so strange to stay in China while he flew home.<br>GREAT TRIP! It was awesome to be in the same time zone!

... snaking across the flatlands, and the green shark karst fangs punching though all this as far as the eye could see. <br>We stopped to eat in a little place at the side of the road after having cycled for many many miles, and ran out of sights to see, already being back in the outskirts of Yangshuo. We pointed at various vegetables, aubergines, lettuce, and some other crazy stuff, and eggs, and they made a dish out of each one, tasty and healthy looking, especially the aubergines ...

... attraction.<br><br>Now that we've reached this goal, we're ready to move on to new goals, like climbing harder. We started this on our 101st day of climbing by heading up to the famous Moon Hill, the site where Dosage V showed strong climbers making tenuous body positions between stalactites over a dramatic limestone arch. Of course ...

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Sunday, August 30th: Left from San Francisco on Asiana Airlines at 10:40am. I was lucky I booked my flight early; the prices went up the last 30 days about $400.00 more. My ticket was only $850.00. The only problem I had was Asiana is the airline that tries to enforce the one bag rule for carry on. But I had planned on that and had shifted my stuff around just in case. I was worried that my two bags for check in would be to heavy, which they were but ...

On Sunday, we woke up early and threw our bags together to get the bus to the port. We were pleasantly surprised in the morning to be greeted by a private taxi, but we had to keep transferring to bigger buses, which was annoying as we both were carrying large packs. After a lovely drive through the Guilin countryside, which is famed for its soft limestone karsts, we came to the port city, where we would board a small boat for ...

... said everything had to be clean and everyone had to wash their hands. <br><br>We had a great evening. Everyone got into the act. Each person from a different province had a different way they like to fold the skin around the filling. Forest was really the &#8220;dumpling king&#8221;. The participated and directed the entire event. <br><br>06-10-09 Raining and humid<br><br>When we got home last night we received a ...

... from dishes. Bill and I shared Tsingtao Beer, water in shot glasses, and a coke. It began to thunder and lightening while we were eating and then it rained again (4th time today). Bill used the computer while I wrote on behalf of Nigel for Karen's class. Nigel has gone to Myanmar and will meet back up with Freddie in Vietnam before they both head into China. Those guys are quite the world travelers! I relieved Bill of the computer, so he went to the room to read. It was a late night!

... us directions. We stopped for a few minutes in one village on the bridge, and played with this little boy that was with his grandmother. He was so cute, and kept saying "hellooo, hellooo." Adorable. We said bye and started walking again. Our next adventure through the hike was when we had to get to otherside of the trail, which was blocked by a waterfall. It was too long of a way to go around, so we decided to take off our shoes, and walk over the waterfall one by one. It was fun ...