Water Buffalo Guesthouse Yangshuo

... sure how they managed) to sell us some jade. Bill spotted some wild goats high on one hill. We saw some cormorants, ducks, water buffalo, fishermen and a dead floating pig. From time to time Aida would come along and point out the major sites - ...

... the river scenery and the quietness of this part of the Li River - hardly any boats, no tourists and just bamboo forests, water buffalo and farmers walking alongside the river...what a tranquility. After 3 (not 2 hours) paddling we arrive in Liu Gong ...

... raft fishermen, who stood on their long, thin rafts pulling net after net.  After a time we passed a man walking his water buffalo and calf along the riverbank. The buffalo looked at us wild-eyed and decided we were safe enough to swim beside. ...

... the scenery had transformed itself in to the architypal lush patchwork of paddy fields tended by farmworkers in conical hats and water buffalo plodding along dirt tracks. The sort of images that everyone visualises when they think of rural China. The ...

... it seems rather ridiculous in hindsight. A second glance showed me a large pair of horns: my crocodile was actually a very large water buffalo being given a rest from working in the rice fields by his owner who squatted on the bank above him. It was a ...