Sun Shine Spa Yangshuo

... nous indique de nous rendre a tel coin de rue et attendre le bus numero untel avec une femme chauffeur. Plusieurs bus passent et certains tentent de nous embarquer et finalement notre bus arrive. Rendus a la place en question, la fille de la mobilette nous amene a un endroit et nous passe a une autre guide qui nous amene a l'entree du spectacle en plein air ou se trouve une foule immense de touristes chinois et de laowai (nous!), des tour bus etc ...

... by two others and the spit, and two fishermen turned up, their dark outlines more enhanced by the amount of noise they were making, talking at the top of their voices, the sounds slightly muted by the dark. To our right, two swimmers turned up soon, and the horizon had more and more of an outline, the mountains and the city waking in the light, until we finally were totally convinced that there was going to be no show, no cormorants, and jumped into the warm, slow embrace of the river, and ...

... packed with people. Like many towns and cities in China, it is pretty dense. The town really has three main streets and is about the size of Jackson Hole, WY. Except Jackson only has about 9,000 residents, most of which live outside of town, and Yangshuo has about 300,000. It is compact, so it's very easy to get around, to feel serenity ...

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... you know 2) things you don’t know 3) things others know and 4) things you know that others don’t know. Then we broke into groups and discussed them. We had a real good turn out about 6 foreigners and about 15 Chinese students, teachers, and business people. The couple from Holland is working on their Master’s Degree in Tourism. They have been living in Seoul, Korea and working as tour guides for a Dutch company. From what I could ...

... but I do not know if this may be due to licensing constraints. <br><br>It is easy to procure transport from the hotel into Yangshuo but getting transport back, late, can sometimes take a little longer. We found the best mode of transport was a kind of taxi that resembled a hybrid between a tractor and a motorbike which could be hailed at the main street junctions in the town. Moon Hill village itself is a rather shabby fairly dilapidated ...

... to town. We called Wei, who runs the hostel we were staying at and he came to collect us. We were staying in Yangshuo Culture House, a hostel run by Wei and his family. The hostel offers Calligraphy, Chinese, Tai Chi and painting lessons and offered the opportunity to see a more 'local' side of Yangshuo. The location was a couple of km away from the centre/tourist streets and right next to the start of the ...

... now.<br><br>We visited one of these hotels owned by two brothers. All over the new village you see new houses being built mostly to be hotels. It is close to many of the attraction of the area, Moon Hill, Banyan Tree, Water caves. But it is still a little isolated. One brother said he would rent the upper floors to me for about $3000 a year, 11 rooms. I told him I would think about it. Then the other brother told ...

... you see clouds at an Emperor's residence it means "Sons of gods". There are two red ribbons on each side of the doorways with Chinese writing. Each household displays their wishes for the year at every New Year. There are also pictures of two generals on the doors to scare away the evil spirits. The Yulong bridge is a lovely stone bridge. You can rent bamboo rafts for two and go down the river from this spot. It is known that the bridge is over 600 years old because of the ...

... Along the way, we passed lots of stands along the road; it was Saturday, a day for the market. Anyways, at the cliffs where hoards of people getting on boats were we met the lady that was showing us which boat was ours. The boats were bamboo boats, with a motor on the back, and a cover. We had a man to take us up the river, Yangdi river maybe.. or another. I can't remember. Anyways, it was a nice boat ride. The river was encaved and surrounded by mountains; tons of mountains ...