Donnerstag, 30. Mai 2013
Yangshuo
highpeak, 07:43h
Trip back to mainland China was pretty easy, we boarded the bus in Wanchai which brought us to the border, walked via the immigration and looking for our bus on Shenzhen side. A bit tricky, but with the stickers they had given to us a guy found us, put us into a buick bus with another Chinese guy and 45 minutes later we arrived at Shenzhen airport.
Flight was more or less on time and when we arrived in Guilin our pick up was already waiting there to drive us the 1.5 hours to Yangshuo where we arrived shortly before midnight.
The hotel is outside of town on the opposite side of the Li river, a 20 minutes walk and a short ferry crossing and than you are almost in famous West street.
Very nice landscape here, the carst mountains and green hills can be seen from our hotel room, amazing.
The first day we rented some bikes and drove through the rice fields direction to Long bridge
and only after short time out in the countryside Markus bike had a flat tire.
Would have been a problem in Europpe, but not in China, as just 100 m further a small bike repair shop offered his service and fixed Markus bike for a few RMB
during we had a cold beer (really hot and humid here!).
After arriving at Long bridge
a thunderstorm came up so we waited until the shower became less and started a bargaining battle with the locals to take a bamboo raft back towards Yangshuo. We finally agreed to 180 RMB for the 2 hours ride, incl. 2 cold beers and so we started.
Its a nice and relaxing tour, great views while floating downstream.
We reached the destination, grabbed our bikes to drive back to Yangshuo when another thunderstorm came up and hit us badly: Soaked with water and dirt (bikes had for sure no protection around the tires) we returned the bikes and took a taxi back to hotel to shower and change some clothes. Evening was quite easy, had dinner and enjoyed the view of Yangshuo nightlife.
The next morning we were wandering around in town and decided to go for a kayaking tour on the Li river, luckily at a part where the big boats dont go and so also here it was a quiet and beautiful ride, just us two with these little kayaks.
But again: Thunderstorm,
so at the destination we were completely wet and had to go back to hotel first.
For dinner we decided to go for a Western selection in a small bar/restaurant with an Austrian owner and as the gin tonics had been too good and we had some good company with the owner and a New Zealand guy we stayed until 2 am to celebrate our last night before returning to Shanghai.
Next morning started a bit with a hangover, but not a problem as it anyhow was raining outside and not really much to do before catching the taxi in the afternoon to head for Guilin airport for our flight back home (at least for me).
In general Yangshuo had changed a lot since I had been here 2006 with Wolfgang and Armin, much more tourists, more noisy, but its still ok (just bargaining more than usual in China).
Flight was more or less on time and when we arrived in Guilin our pick up was already waiting there to drive us the 1.5 hours to Yangshuo where we arrived shortly before midnight.
The hotel is outside of town on the opposite side of the Li river, a 20 minutes walk and a short ferry crossing and than you are almost in famous West street.
Very nice landscape here, the carst mountains and green hills can be seen from our hotel room, amazing.
The first day we rented some bikes and drove through the rice fields direction to Long bridge
and only after short time out in the countryside Markus bike had a flat tire.
Would have been a problem in Europpe, but not in China, as just 100 m further a small bike repair shop offered his service and fixed Markus bike for a few RMB
during we had a cold beer (really hot and humid here!).
After arriving at Long bridge
a thunderstorm came up so we waited until the shower became less and started a bargaining battle with the locals to take a bamboo raft back towards Yangshuo. We finally agreed to 180 RMB for the 2 hours ride, incl. 2 cold beers and so we started.
Its a nice and relaxing tour, great views while floating downstream.
We reached the destination, grabbed our bikes to drive back to Yangshuo when another thunderstorm came up and hit us badly: Soaked with water and dirt (bikes had for sure no protection around the tires) we returned the bikes and took a taxi back to hotel to shower and change some clothes. Evening was quite easy, had dinner and enjoyed the view of Yangshuo nightlife.
The next morning we were wandering around in town and decided to go for a kayaking tour on the Li river, luckily at a part where the big boats dont go and so also here it was a quiet and beautiful ride, just us two with these little kayaks.
But again: Thunderstorm,
so at the destination we were completely wet and had to go back to hotel first.
For dinner we decided to go for a Western selection in a small bar/restaurant with an Austrian owner and as the gin tonics had been too good and we had some good company with the owner and a New Zealand guy we stayed until 2 am to celebrate our last night before returning to Shanghai.
Next morning started a bit with a hangover, but not a problem as it anyhow was raining outside and not really much to do before catching the taxi in the afternoon to head for Guilin airport for our flight back home (at least for me).
In general Yangshuo had changed a lot since I had been here 2006 with Wolfgang and Armin, much more tourists, more noisy, but its still ok (just bargaining more than usual in China).
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