Sorry we haven't updated in a while, these past 10 days have been busy busy busy, so today we're catching up with the blog & photos so stay tuned. Yesterday afternoon, carrying on from our last blog entry, we made the most of our last day in Yangshuo town central, despite the rain, shopping along the market stalls and whiling away the afternoon in our temporary home that was MC Blues. We discovered a bar which sold apple crumble (!!!) aswell, not a patch o...

We were troopers this morning and got up at 5am for our impending balloon ride! Looking at the sky it didn't seem likely it would be a go-ahead, as it was really misty making the visibility poor, but the woman in charge seemed to think it was fine, so we handed over our money and dragged our tired selves onto the mini bus. Bobo came along too with Lucy and Christina so we were all really excited on the way! Suddenly we saw a burst of fire on the road in front of ...

Wednesday was our first full day in Yangshuo so we were determined to do as much as possible! We'd organised to get up early and have a tai chi (sp?) lesson with Christina and Karolina, and we soon realised that our teacher, who was scarily muscular and wearing some rather fetching cream satin trousers, was taking us to a local park - therefore to make fools of us in front of the general public! Arghhh! In tai chi there are 24 interchangable 'steps' you can lear...

Sorry for the delay in updating! Busy busy week! Well it can certainly be said that Liam's assumption of 'oh, we won't spend much in Yangshuo' was certainly misguided - we've spent the most money here so far! Yesterday we woke up on the train, in the knowledge that we'd have another good few hours before we were on solid ground. The 24 hour train ride had seemed daunting, particularly as when we walked on, we smelt the air and labelled it 'funky.' Everything wa...