We landed in Guilin, a major city in the Guanxi (sometimes spelled Guangxi) province, on June 27. We had originally intended on spending some time in Guilin but our flight was delayed and once we arrived we decided we wanted to go straight to Yangshuo and explore Guanxi from there. When we arrived on the afternoon of the 28th, we found Monkey Ja...

The taxi ride to Shenzhen was a story in its self, it took so long I was sure the driver was taking us to Hong Kong.... but we got there in good time and the flight with southern china was fine. Guilin looks very polluted like Shenzhen, but our guide assured us it was mist. It is still misty 2 days later. The tour we booked turned outto be very ...

After a few days in villages and a lot of nature it was about time to get back into the city. After some hours of traveling in public buses we arrived the little town Yang Shoa. Compared to the last places we slept, Yang Shoa was completely different. Well developed, with a lots of tourists. Especially Chinese tourists visit the town every year....

Today we went to a sortof "attraction" of the area, which is famous for it's caves. We went to the Water Cave, which is the largest of the caves. After reaching the ticket office, we took the small bus to the actual cave itself on the roughest dirt road ever that led through tiny villages to the absolute desolate spot that was the cave's entranc...

WARNING - there is a photo in this section, towards the end, that some may find disturbing. It involves dogs at the market. I wanted to put the photo on here as I found it morbidly fascinating. Apologies if it offends anyone. Anyway, on with the blog. The plan was to spend the remaining few days chilling out in the Giggling Tree. However, I thin...

The bus was not a sleeper but we had reclining seats. There was not a lot of leg room so it wasn't the height of comfort, considering the ticket price was Y150 each. We were dropped quite close to West Street in the early hours of the morning. We had thoughts of staying at Lisa's, where we stayed two years ago, but a young man met us and talked ...

Hello everyone, now we are in Yangshuo, arrived at 3 am in the morning of the 11th of July. Its was dark so we couldn't really tell were we exactly landed we just felt the bumpy dirt track for about 2 km leading to our new home...thats rural we thought...we definitely got the adventurous feeling traveling to the Yangshuo Mountain Retreat. The ne...

Hey Hey and a Big G'Day toya Man it was so cold yesterday and today that I haven't really done anything or gone anywhere beyond the café toilet. Today I sat with Mickey at MC Blues and whilst listening to some cool music I spent the day reading Rob Roy. You know the guy who many generations ago is related to my family on Mums Scottish side Good ...

Oh Yanshuo, what an awe inspiring place! We were told that we must go here and we are so glad that we did. What a gem of a place! Still retaining a lot of the charm of old China, Yanshuo is one of the last places in China that has been left resonably untouched by modern construction and business. Surrounded by limestone peaks and old fashioned r...

Yangshuo 14/11/2006 - 19/11/2006 We arrived into Yangshuo by air, which ended up being quite an easy decision for us to make, as the train trip from Chengdu to Guilin would have required us to change trains, it would have taken 40+ hours and was also more expensive than flying. We landed into Yangshuo at midnight (cheapest flight available of co...