Hello! So to bring you up to date with our blog - we are staying at the farmhouse up in the hills at Yangshou and don't want to leave! Unfortunately we have to leave tomorrow though as we are going to the Lonji Rice Terreces for a treck (which we are looking forward to but could really do with some more days here as we love it so much!). This morning we got up in our own time (the rest of the group went to learn how to cook Chinese food but we didn't fancy it) a...

Written by Holly On our second day in Yangshou we decided to go for a group bike ride (9 of us) without a guide (very risky!). Every single activity here has a guide option which is pushed by our main guide but we keep turning her down so it's cheaper! We went for a nice breakfast in MC Blues where we had eaten the previous evening (some of the group feeling a bit delicate!) of banana milk porridge and toast and then went to hire bikes - only 1.50p (no pound sig...

Written by Holly Hello from Yangshou! We haven't updated our blog for a few days so thought we would spend a bit of time in the internet cafe (still very smokey!) updating the last few days. The 16th Feb was our first proper day in Yangshou. The weather isn't as nice as we were hoping - they had a mini heatwave last week so we were getting the shorts out in anticipation, but alas, it's quite overcast and chilly. Still warmer than England though and probably bet...