Only a short stay here. Fair play to the Chinese for developing a whole tourist industry out of a very suspect looking rock formation - an elephant drinking water. Judge for yourselves from the pictures!

We also took a trip to the rice terraces at Longsheng. Feeling that we were now experienced travellers we decided to make our own way there. By bus. First of all it took over an hour for the bus to leave the city as it drove around picking up passengers until it was full. Secondly we missed our stop (lack of Chinese a problem here). Luckily we caught another bus going in the opposite direction before changing to a 'local' bus where we shared our seats with live chickens in plastic bags. When we finally got to the terraces we were disappointed as they didn't look like any of the pictures we seen. A great day out nonetheless.