Sun Shine Spa Yangshuo

... trip so no booking required & just rock up.

The last bit of the journey was through pretty scenery past dramatic karst mountains. On arrival at the bus staion it was an easy 200 metre walk to find the hostel. We are in an 8 bed dorm - 25 yuan for me & 20 for Nath - about $9 AUS for both of us!!

Went for an explore of town & gathering info to work out what we wanted to do ...

... the the cooking room. We each got to make our own Gong Bao chicken, pork dumplings and eggplant with chilli and ginger. All very standard Chinese fare. But before we dived each, one had to have the appropriate attire - an apron and a diamond shaped chef's hat that made me feel like I was an extra in Arnold's diner in Happy Days - see pictures. Having worked hard for my dinner I happily finished the lot and left with the recipes, resolving to trot them ...

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... worth it as the scen**y was amazing.

As mentioned in our last entry we had come this way to see the Cormorant fishing which is on the adv**t. This method of fishing does not take place any more as mod**n techniques have made it redundant, but they keep the show going for the tourist. We booked what we thought was a taxi thorugh the hostel to take us to the show, but it end up that we w**e both given a lift on two seprate scoot**s from the owen**s of the hostel. We w**e ...

Our day started at about 5:30 to take an hour bus ride to the Shenzhen Airport. We arrived just in time to get all four of our bags checked, and the remaining three on the plane! The hour flight went very fast, and before we knew it we were landing at the Guilin Airport.

One thing that we figured out about while crossing the border to Mainland China is that Facebook does not work ...

... on the ground. The usual pig's legs and feet were one of the offerings. Several other men were talking among themselves, but fell silent when I aproached. The butcher offered to sell me some meat, but he became a little angry when I pantomimed that the dogs laying within inches of the pork might have already had a taste.

When I turned back up a path, heading for my room, a little shrunken woman with roadmaps for a face, stopped me and asked where I was ...

... even our hotel.

We were going to stay in a ****** place but Rose thought it was too dangerous so she had us wait while she left for 20 minutes; came back and said she booked us a hotel. It would end up being the most expensive place we stayed ($15 US a night) and it was a real hotel with private bath etc.

So we went downtown walked around and went to a bar and played chinese dice. We woke up ealry -630am to catch the bus to Lijang (9 hour bus ride)

ryan

... China sein soll. Wir haben uns dann ab** fu** die abgespeckte 2 Stunden V**sion entschieden, da die Sicht an dem Tag auch nicht so toll war. Die Tour war dann auch sehr schoen, auch wenn in China b**uehmte Spots imm** extrem ueb**laufen sind (insbesond**e von Chinesen und die haben eine etwas and**e Vorstellung von Urlaub. Es muss imm** extrem voll und laut sein). Es sah jetzt wohl so aus, als wenn es keinen Sinn mehr machen wu**de in diesem Teil von China zu bleiben od ...

... two of the floors and a large veranda and 3 rooms on the top floor. The rent would be about $8,000.00 a year but the catch was that it would cost about $25,000.00 to finish and furnish it. A little more then I thought of paying for a project. On the way back we found a new hot corn juice bar. For some reason they like this stuff. It is like drink creamed corn soup to me. It was not very good. About 20 cents for a cup. Then ...

... He kept going on about this and how he wanted a password to a porn website. The other highlight was having a mud bath in freezing temperatures. Pete and myself had a big mud fight which I lost after receiving a coating of mud on the face That night we got the overnight train to Hong Kong where we met a Chinese Lady called Ching Ching whose new years resolution was to find a nice man .....