A nice morning start - 9am, our first visit was to the less visited areas of hilly rural landscape of Yungshuo, to see where the local farmers live and work. The house quite large, had a family of four living there, as the children had moved to the city to work.   One of the gentleman aged 69 was actually in the show the night before, he carried the bamboo boats, he was quite cheeky, showed us how he does weights each day, then showed us his bird that did flip...

Darn, missed Tai Chi again, Dad made it, he said it was quite easy until he had to stand on one leg and balance. It was an early morning start, breakfast at 7.30am, as the boat passed through the WU Gorge – the second of the three gorges, here we could see Goddess Peak, there are 12 peaks in total, we stopped for landing at 8.30am for the days land excursion, although it was not much of a land based excursion as we had to get onto smaller boats which took ...

Our first full day on the Yangtzee River cruise, the boat does not even feel like it's moving, it’s such a smooth ride, we decided to miss Tai Chi to have a sleep in. The Yangtzee River is the largest river in China, third largest in the world, after the Nile and Amazon.A later breakfast, as the ship sails through the first of the Three Gorges, the Xiling Gorge, which is the longest of the three. Our first experience of steep walls and tight channels p...

Another early start, but what is an early start when we were going to get to see the World Heritage listed Terracotta Warriors! We stop by the Art Ceramics and Lacquer Exhibition, an interesting look at how the Terracotta Warriors were actually made.   The warriors made at the factory actually could be bought and shipped home, in all sizes. The factory also had a huge display of Lacquer Furniture, beautiful pieces, that again could be shipped home. Sharyn de...