Yangshuo was the countryside we'd been expecting in Guilin, the main centre was the Chinese equivalent of a holiday resort but cycle 10 minutes out and you could be surrounded by Karst peaks and rice paddies. On our first day I decided I was going to get back on a bike after my fall in Vietnam, we cycled out of town and started following the Yulong River up to Dragons Bridge which is an ancient bridge in Yangshuo. The scenery is amazing here, green rice paddies,...

After a successful trip to the rice terraces we were looking forward to our trip on the bamboo raft. We thought we'd booked an hour and half raft ride down the river Li from Yangdi to Xingping and would be getting dropped off in Yangshuo. This would mean an hours bus journey either side of the rafting, this is most definitely not what we got and has to go down on record as one of the most surreal trips we've ever been on, so much so we've dedicated a whole blog t...