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Day 45/46 – Long Ji Rice Terraces

After a 4 hour long taxi ride from our great week in the Giggling Tree Guesthouse we arrived at a misty and rainy Ping’an, a mountain village in the LongJi (Dragonbone) Rice Terrace scenic area. To get to our hotel we had to go on a long step road, luckily we found some old ladies who carried our luggage.. they are really fit!

 

The weather was not the best, but fortunately at the end of the first day the mist cleared here and there a bit, enough to make some great photos.

After our stay here, where we had quite some rain, we went back to Guilin for two more nights before we will leave the ‘normal’ China on the 27th of May and cross the border to Hong Kong.

 

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Day 39 – Giggling Tree treasure hunt and pool day

This day was our first real day in Yangshuo and still great weather (which was about to change later on) so we decided to go for the Giggling Tree (GT) kids treasure hunt. You get a photo booklet and have to find the treasure.

It was a great activity and in the end we found the treasure, although it was a bit flooded with mud from the floods two weeks ago. During the tour this flood was evident, as we saw some locals cleaning their restaurant stuff (fridge, fans, tables, everything) from the mud with a big hose. Poor guys.

The afternoon was then spend in the pool and the evening with western food and a nice beer on the terrace – patatje oorlog, what a treat!

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Day 38 – Li River Cruise

Today we went in search for the 20 Rmb Note. If you look closely at the note you’ll see that there is the background of some karst hills with a cormorant fischer in the front. This is taken not far from XingPing on the Li river and as we’re taking a boat across this river, exactly the touristy spot for us to find 😉

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We’re picked up early in the morning by a bus and again a strict Chinese tour guide (“Are we clear!”). After about one hour driver we arrive at the pier and are dumped on the boat. Here it was clear that there are a lot of boats going down the river.

The trip was really nice, the scenery is absolutely stunning and you get a very relaxed view on the whole from the boat. The service and food was, as anticipated, on the level of a Chinese tour, but we could live with that. For Charlotte the whole trip was a bit too long but she soon was drawing and happy with her quiet moment. One thing mention worth that occurred was that we got in a little argument with our Sgt. tour guide, as she did not want to give Charlotte a plate for the lunch, because kids under 1.20m don’t pay and thus do not get a plate. She could eat from our plate. Clear moment of do not touch our kid, she soon realized that this was not something we’re willing to even discuss and let it be 😉

After we arrived in Yangshuo we squeezed ourselves and our back packs through hordes of Chinese tourist and sales people and quickly took a taxi to the Giggling Tree. There it was time to relax, jump in the pool (Yes Ronald, they have a nice pool now) and enjoy a “Patatje Oorlog” in China.

 

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Day 36/37 – Guilin

Just a quick photo overview of our two days in Guilin, where we had both very warm and moist weather as well a pouring rain (our first in China so far, so we cannot complain).

Now we’re off to Yangshuo!