Guesthouse Yangshuo

... back to this fairytale place one day. In the meantime, the one thing I hope is that Tripper and his guesthouse remain as a great place to see the old Yangshuo for what it really is - a mini-paradise that feels like it sits at the edge of the ...

... to trek the 22km hike from Yangdi to Xingping. We teamed up with a French-Canadian couple who'd arrived in our guesthouse and got the local bus from Yangshuo to Yandi early one morning. Once we haggled for the boat over the river at Yangdi, we made solid ...

... for cycling - the hills rise pretty vertically from a flat plain, so it's easy pedaling with gorgeous views. Our guesthouse is a really special place, thanks to the grace and kindness of the host family, delicious meals, and good interactions with ...

... on Xi Jie (West Street), the main drag for foreigners in Yangshuo.  Monkey Jane is a 25-year-old woman from Yangshuo who runs a guesthouse and rooftop bar.  She's well known around Yangshuo for drinking her guests under the table, and we met her ...

... , two swedes and a german guy... all of these people we met either on the tiger leaping gorge trail or at halfway guesthouse on the trail. anyways, we shared tibetan dumplings and goat cheese filled puff balls with of course chinese food... it was lots of ...

... place, and that also turned out to be a very good twist of fate. We ended up at the Yangshuo Outside Inn, another small farm, renovated and turned into a guesthouse. We had no idea where we had landed. We were immediately welcomed by the manager Nadine, a ...

After getting off the bus we looked for a cab to take us to the Giggling Tree hostel which is situated in the Yangshuo countryside.  A local woman helped us communicate where we wanted to go and the taxi driver indicated that the cost was 4 ...

... Han people. It has a subtropical climate. The annual normal temperature is 19 degrees centigrade. The local products of Yangshuo include the Sha Tian Grapefruit, Jin Ju (Golden Orange), preserved persimmon Chestnut, Dried Fragrant Mushroom., Ricewine ...

... . It's hard to do justice in words to the experience of riding around amongst the limestone peaks and small villages that surround Yangshuo; I spent the latter half of the day I arrived and the entire next doing just that. Even in the cold weather with ...

... peaks surrounding the little town. Highlight- Having 10 kids 'helping' us navigate our way through the rice paddies alongside the Yangshuo River. They were ridiculously excited to see us! Lowlight-  Having the before mentioned 10 kids all wanting a ...

... We decided that we should give Guilin an explore and plan the next few days, all the locals, tourists and guidebooks pointed at Yangshuo and Xiping as the places to be, so because of the distinct lack of accommodation we decided to make Guilin ...

... hostels so rooms along here are plentiful. But being the aged travellers that we are we found a place called the Yangshuo Culture House - which is more like a guesthouse really - which is about 20 mins walk from the centre of town. We chose to stay here ...

... of Chaolong, we reached the Yangshuo Outside Inn, recommended as a "top choice" by the Lonely Planet. This 'farmhouse turned guesthouse' is run by a Swiss family and gives you a sense of rural village life without compromising on hygiene. Our abode is a ...

... .  I would have much preferred to be running a bar on a beach somewhere in Thailand, but as far as China goes, picturesque Yangshuo is a pretty good 2nd choice. Unfortunately, I've never been to YS in the winter.  I've only come in the summer ...

Yangshuo ...

... during the day watching films and getting quite drunk in the evening) Louis and I hired some scooters and ventured off into Yangshuo’s countryside. We were heading to an ancient stone village, Shitoucheng, about an hour away and it’s been ...

... back to Yangshuo, it was time for some cycling (well, we are Dutch after all!). Our first stop was for drinks at a guesthouse run by fellow Dutchmen, called The Giggling Tree. Next up was the - slightly overrated - bamboo rafting ride down a small ...

... half an hour and me and Marc both having to try and talk to some girl on the phone we were now getting off the bus at Yangshuo at 5am – needless to say we didn’t really sleep – our beds were a tad short and we didn’t know if they ...

... with a brother and sister from England. Dumped our stuff then went out and got some lunch before walking to the Li River. Yangshuo is a small town, which is really touristy, but it is nestled in amongst the limestone peaks and a great base for getting ...