Him and Her still on the road.: Yangshou.

Yangshou: On reflection this was our favourite place during our time in China, the town isn't much to speak of but we managed to get a superb room at the Giggling tree which is in the heart of the country and away from any noise or traffic, just ducks and paddy fields, and it has a half decent restaurant !

We did mostly walks and would you believe it Bike rides from here to explore the amazing and tranquil landscape. Yes Linda even rode a bike albeit on the back of a tandem.

Our first and biggest walk was to a small ferry ( one man and a few bamboo poles tied together ) to take us to the far side of the river, a journey of around 20 seconds. we then simply followed the footpath upstream and across bridges for about 10km till we came to the Dragons Bridge where we saw Cormorant fishermen plying their tourist skills and catching fish.

We then simply took a raft back about 5km downstream shooting many weirs and getting quite wet into the bargain, before walking the last 5 km back to the giggling tree, the scenery was awesome and even the weather decided to play ball so it was a great day.

Next day was a venture out on two wheels to explore further into the Karst countryside, we stopped at a cave called the dragons assembly and walked around the slightly over lit caves. In the evening we went to a light show called impressions which is set on water shrouded by the towering limestone Karsts, Linda liked it, as did 99% of everyone else we spoke to who had seen the show, Mal thought it was a rather tame.... Not enough "meat and potatoes" he said!

One of the most strange things we saw were the stone steaks, lumps of local stone cut and polished so that they resemble slabs of meat fit for any butcher shop.. why?? who knows , they even had stones cut and polished into good resemblances of Lettuce !! After our stay here we went to Chengdu to sort out a trip into Tibet.