Got up early after an ok nights sleep and came downstairs to find the gang either eating or waiting for their breakfast. Mandy and John (something going on there we wondered) were heading out bamboo rafting so we wouldn't see them again, but the rest of us were up for the bike riding! We ordered our mountain bikes (not toooo bad for rental standards) and as they arrived said our goodbyes to Mandy and John with a hug and a 'have a great rest of your trip' The...

Not such a great day. Jen and I got up about 1pm, went out to get some lunch, came back and watched a movie then went cormorant fishing. The fishing bit was quite cool, we went out on a little boat and followed this guy in a small boat with cormorants attached to it on string, they were just visible under the lone hanging light at the head of the boat. When they saw something they would dive below the water, come up with a fish and the boatman would pull th...

We got up early as we had booked ourselves on a Li river cruise up to Langdi, where we were to get the bus back. They came to collect us for the short ride to the pier and got on a small boat with a lower deck with seating and an upper deck without (unless you paid extra to sit up there, but you could stand) We pulled out and it was a fairly uninspiring first hour on the boat before the beautiful hills started to come into view and we moved to stand upstairs (a...

Next day and we both felt like crap! We had to get up out and move on! After much talk of whether it was possible to do a boat trip from Yangshao, our next stop, instead of paying the 400 yuan trip price from Guilin, we decided to just wing it. We went to the train station first and purchased our train tickets to Xi'an (27hrs on a train) for about 370yuan each for a hard sleeper. Then to the bus station where we got 20yuan bus tickets for the two hour trip do...