This morning we got up to find the weather was holding out for us... It was cloudy and cooler and looked like it was about to rain, but hey, it wasn't raining *yet*. So we rented bikes once again. We headed out on a route drawn out by our hotel, which was on a backroad through the country alongside the yulong river, a tributary of the li river. The yulong was really scenic, with motorless bamboo rafts and men using long poles to navigate them down the river. We ...

After doing our nightly check-bed-for-spiders routine, we went to sleep, only to be woken by the sound of pouring rain in the night. It continued into the morning, along with thunder and lightening. Like torrential downpour-style rain. Well, at least we are indoors for our activity of the day! And it's funny how the people of yangshuo have adapted; they have motorcycle umbrellas. Yeah. The cooking school sent a driver to pick us up at 9:20, and they took us alon...

This morning we woke up to birds singing outside our room in the farmhouse. A nice change from the sound of traffic. Every time I woke up in the night though I'd twitch, imagining monster spiders all over me. On the bright side, it's so nice and mild here! No chill in the air whatsoever, and above 20 degrees. Apparently its the first not-rainy day in a really long time, we got lucky. The workers here are super helpful too. After a bit of breakfast we hopped on ou...