We arrived in gulin at 6ish and jumped a bus to yangshuo, now yangshuo isn`t exactly large but as it was pitch black when we arrived and there`s no english signs or people to understand us, we were basically just left hanging out at the bus station, neither of us have phones so we had to ask a local to borrow theirs, which is easier said, and ask the hostel to come pick us up. Which they did... with 2 vespas! My backpack isn`t large so that`s not a problem but Laurens is 47 pounds which is ridiculously heavy, but hey they plonked it in the bit were your feet go, we jumped on the back and set off. Just one of us slightly slower than the other.
The morning came and with it so did the sun, glorious sunshine. I hadn`t seen a blue sky since those febreeze rockets were shot into beijings sky, so it was nice to be back to flip flops and t-shirts. We rented bikes for the days events. The first one which was wheeled out was lilac, i thought Lauren could have that while i wait for the "man bike" which so happened to be bright pink. I looked at Lauren with that " ok lets just obviously swap" sort of face, to which she turned around and rode off. Guess it was me and the barbie bike for the day then.
10 minutes down the road, and a few dodgy looks at my bike later we got to `moon hill` [probably best to look at pictures than trying to explain] but we hiked to the top (which was longer than we first thought) and then rushed back for our lunch at the hostel (which was now sooner than we`d planned)
Yesterday we decided to get off the beaten track, which to be fair was already fairly off the track anyway, and rent mopeds for the day. I`d never been on one before and as the first thing i did was run over laurens big toe i thought maybe it should also be the last.. We pushed on though, me trying not to crash into every car and bus and Lauren doing her usual handstand while taking photos, steering with her feet routine. But after a few mins though i was loving it and joining in with the photo taking. The scenery was some of the nicest i`ve ever seen in my life, and everyone was waving and saying hello. The family we stopped at for a snack all came out and had photos with us and practised there English. It was just such a nice day and we ended it with big reveal of the Li River (which incidentally is on the back of the 20 yuan note)
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Nice pictures, but I didn't see any of the barbie bike!!!!!
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