New Century Yangshuo

... down the road & I saw a sign for Solitary Peak in that very same road!! Don't know what the tuk tuk driver & taxi driver were up to but glad we left them as they had pointed down the road in the opposite direction to where they would have taken us.


Paid a ridiculous 70 yuan each to go into the grounds & climb up hundreds more very steep steps to the top of this 152 m pinnacle ...

... took out my travelling shoe-horn and stuffed as much into my remaining holiday moccasin as I could muster.

Yangshuo is a popular destination for Chinese and foreign tourists due to the dream-like karst mountain scenery of the area. Based on the Li River, the locals have traditionally been fishermen and farmers. The countryside it a patchwork of rice paddies and fields of crops, with a few water buffalo hanging about for extra effect (or more ...

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... w**e told that it was a bit difficult to find the riv** from our hostel so we orginsed for a guide to show us wh**e to go. So we set off on the on push bikes following the guide down the road, but he wasn't quiet playing ball as he was on his motor bike, so trying to keep up with him was v**y difficult. By the end we w**e going that fast that we w**e asked to ent** the Chinese Olympic cycling team. When we did eventually make it, it was not long before we w**e setting off down the ...

... pics to load of it. Jeremy ended up disappearing at the end of dinner, not sure, maybe too much vodka.

So, me, Joe, and our newly aquired American friend went downtown to continue celebrating the 4th. At one point, I looked up and Joe was standing on a stool, had our friend that owns the bar turn off the music, and there from his perch he gave a speech and toast to America- surrounded by Chinese and non ...

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the chinese dont stand in line. i'm not saying they dont like standing in line literally they dont stand in line. at the grocery store, airport, school lunch they all just walk to the front of the line. so i just stood back and watch at the school lunch while 50 people tried to get their plates and rice at the same time. it was hilarious. people were squeezing arms through, over and under the unorganized mass and kind of lightly shoving each other away. i read a story ...

... extrem auf Touristen (chinesische wie westliche) ausg**ichtet ist und es gab jede Menge Restaurants, Bars und Laeden. Das Ganze wirkte schon ein bisschen befremdlich, wenn etwas v**loren wirkende Chinesinnen vor den Bars tanzen und das ganze ziemlich gewollt ab** nicht gekonnt wirkt. Einige d** Restaurants hatten dann auch echte Leck**bissen auf d** Karte, z.B. Hund, Schlange od** gegrillte Bambusratte. Abends war es dann nicht mehr ganz so toll inmitten d ...

... it into Chinese the day before. She was very happy and said she would present it to her board within the next week. They want to open up a Sister County dialogue between Lake County and Yangshuo County. Mrs. Jho is in change of the tourism department and education. After they left we had dinner and began to discuss what do to with the tour guides. We decided the easiest thing to do was to give an evaluation test like ...

... is a magical thing! I had planned to spend my first night resting and chilling alone with my old pal James Clavell, but was approached by a couple of guys while I was munching on my dinner. South African Paul and Japanese Koji turned out to pretty cool guys, and I wiled away the evening 'shootin the ****' and playing pool etc. Lowpoint being an encounter with some drunken English idiots, of the bull necked double digit IQ variety.