Night Bus from Shenzhen to Yangshuo (11 hours)
The bus had about 30 beds. Bunk beds! - somewhere between Shenzen and Yangshuo
Katy enjoying her top bunk with a window through which she could witness, up close, the precarious nature of the Chinese highway - somewhere between Shenzen and Yangshuo
Katy in Yangshuo (this was her first bike ride in 20 years...)
Katy with flowers bought from a smiling old lady on the roadside (a good sales woman) - Yangshuo
Yangshuo bike ride
rice and mountains - Yangshuo
soooo glad we weren't with a big group... - Yangshuo
Katy and the river - Yangshuo
our bikes (rental cost: 50 cents per day) - Yangshuo
This place was georgeous - Yangshuo
view from a restaurant (the little building is an outhouse) - Yangshuo
Pausing our bike ride for a delicious lunch of Beer Fish - Yangshuo
this restaurant was owned by a local family - Yangshuo
another bucolic view - Yangshuo
wow...
a local - Yangshuo
... Yangshuo
a break by the river - Yangshuo
more locals (the river has many uses) - Yangshuo
not everyone here is on vacation - Yangshuo
contemplating - Yangshuo
some fishermen (note the electrified poles) - Yangshuo
never too young to fish with electricity! - Yangshuo
a feast at our hostel - Yangshuo Culture House
our hosts at the hostel - cooking for 18 on this night - Yangshuo Culture House
More from the performance. From the offcial web page: "There are 2200 seats for the audience, of which 2000 are for the ordinary people, 180 for VIPs and 20 for presidents." - Yangshuo
some type of myth we did not understand - Yangshuo
afternoon in Yangshuo
Yangshuo street
the onion man's house - Yangshuo
Mr. Wei. Our wonderful host in Yangshuo - Yangshuo Culture House
Katy at the base of Moon Hill - Yangshuo
Our unexpected and unsolicited tour guides. They joined us at the bottom and led us up many stairs to the 1200 ft summit - Yangshuo
View from Moon Hill - Yangshuo
you can see the village below - from Moon Hill
Katy on Moon Hill -Yangshuo
on the summit of Moon HIll
through the "moon" - Yangshuo
those wacky karst mountains... - from Moon Hill
more of them - from Moon Hill
Jeff and the guides (after buying postcards) - Moon Hill
Guides and lodging purveyors rush to meet an arriving busload of tourists - Yangshuo
Our hostel: The Yangshuo Culture House - Yangshuo