Moon Resort Hotel Yangshuo

We said goodbye to our sleeper train



The view from our hotel window!




We hired some bikes for the day



Riding by the Yulong river



We tried not to beep our horns!



Lottie bought a nice hat...it was very hot!



We went for a swim to cool off...35 degrees!



Lottie took a more extravagant entry!



Moon Hill



Dinner was great...local delicacy beer fish 10/10 Yangshuo, Guangxi Zhuang, China charlesinsomnia

This morning we went to Yangshuo Cooking School. First up they took us to the markets.




All sorts of weird and wonderful sights. We stayed away from the dog section.









Lot tie cooked some lush egg dumplings.




Whilst Anthony was so good he used two woks at once!








Look how proud he is of the feast he prepared.





Afterward, we headed to West Street, the High Street...

This morning we said goodbye to Hei Hei (The dog at Moon resort).




And we headed out on foot to climb up the famous Moon Hill.




We made it to the top! It was pretty hard work in the heat but worth it.




On top of moon hill there were some rock climbers. Two guys, one from the states the other from Tasmania were cliimbing some pretty insane routes up the side of the moon shaped part of Moon Hill..... Crazy!!






Yangshuo, Guangxi Zhuang, China charlesinsomnia

We left Adelaide more than 45min late but with plenty of time between flights it wasn't much of a problem. The new AsiaX flight from Melbourne was very nice, brand new and TV monitors on the back of each seat to keep you occupied for the 8/9hr flight. We arrived in KL on time at 7:20am and made our way to the Brisdale hotel in the Chow Kit market area. I mean right in the middle of the Market. We meandered our way through the back streets to the hotel entrance. The Brisdale is very nice and t...

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A farm village in China is several centuries behind the hustle and bustle of the cities. Moon Hill "ville" is pretty typical, but it is also somewhat commercial due to the vacationers coming to see the "typical" village.

I have getting up earlier than everyone else, so I dressed, grabbed my camera, and headed out for some adventure. The path outside the door of our Moon Resort (ha!) hotel, wound through the adobe houses, and led me into a maze that where it would have been easy for me ...