We have taken our 1st day in Yangshuo nice and easy. We just made it down for breakfast about 9.40am and then went back to the room for some chill time. Later on we walked about 5 miles down to the Yulong River bridge, taking in the sights. It's very beautiful here due to the huge and overbearing Karst mountains that provide such an impressive back drop whichever way you look. We ended up visiting a national park where 'The Old BanYan Tree' can be found. It is r...

Arrival at Green Lotus Hotel in Yangshuo. Once again, first impressions of the hotel are very good. It's apparently one of the best hotels in Yangshuo and the lobby area would seem to confirm that. Bad news though, on check out day some Chinese Government officials are coming to stay and we have to be out of the hotel by 8 am! That's gonna be a nightmare, imagine how busy breakfast and checking out will be. As our flight to Hanzhou is not until the afternoon, a...

Today we took the Li River cruise from Guilin to Yangshuo. The first thing that we noticed when we arrived at the dock was how many boats they were! There must've been over 50, all able to take around 80 to 100 people each. The harbour was so busy. Tourists all over the place making there way to their boats with their baggage and their guides. Once on board, we were shown to our table. Their were eight of us on the same table, us, a German couple, a Mexican coup...

Guilin was a lot 'easier going' then both Beijing and Xi'an. On our first night, we walked by the river just outside our hotel. It was at that point that we could tell straight away that this place was a bit different to the two city's we had just visited when we saw a guy in a fitness park (on the river bank) working out on a cross trainer. As we walked on we could see that this was a community area where both adults and children were either working out or playi...

Having looked around at a map of the local tourist spots and after talking to the girls in the business centre of the Hotel, we decided to go to Seven Stars Park in Guilin. We had planned to go to Fubo hill and the Reed Flute Cave today, however having looked at the local area map we realised that they were on opposite sides of the city. Alternatively, the Seven Stars Park seemed to have all of the above and more in one convenient place and close enough via taxi,...