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Tues 7 Nov
The train eventually got to Guilin at around 7pm but we then had a bus journey to Yangshuo where we were staying at Fawlty Towers Hotel! We went out for a meal and found Yangshuo to be very touristy, everyone speaks english and it is very westernised.
Wed 8 Nov
We escaped the town and went bamboo rafting on the Li River. We had a very relaxing few hours sat back on the raft although the boat man had to negotiate several dams where we had to get off the raft. It was a bit like Alton Towers log flume as you could even get the photo..... which we did! In the evening we went to Cloud 9 restaurant for Ed's 31 and a half birthday! After avoiding the pig brain soup, duck tongue and snake we headed to a bar called Monkey Janes where we had a few drinks on the rooftop terrace.
Thurs 9 Nov
We went to Cheddar Gorge, ok we didn't really but we did go to the Silver Cave which are very similar limestone caves. In the afternoon five of us did a chinese cookery class. Firstly we got some bikes and rode to a local market to buy some ingredients. They had everything at the market from fresh fruit and veg to dog and cat meat. It was actually very gruesome, especially seeing a cage full of dogs waiting to be killed and a dead cat being blowtorched. We then rode our bikes for a few miles, somehow managed to lose our cookery teacher and ended up in the wrong village! We found our way back and started the class. We cooked five dishes each and got to eat them all at the end and they were delicious.
Fri 10 Nov
The whole group went for a bike ride around the Chaolong area. Unfortunately our guide rode painfully slowly, we could hardly keep our bikes up straight as she was so slow in places! After an hour or so we arrived at Moon Hill - Ed and the others climbed the hill, or more like scrambled up, for good views from the top. Lisa went on a solo bike ride for an hour - it was good to be able to ride at my own pace! We had lunch at a local farmers then continued the bike ride back to Yangshuo.
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