China, China, China (Part 2)

From Shanghai, we headed out on our next adventure to Guilin.  When we arrived at the airport, we found these great little carts for hand luggage.

This was the signage on the back of the cart.

Um...I think you mean for luggage only!  We found throughout our trip in China that English was spelled wrong, in the wrong order, or had the wrong meaning.  It was rather funny.  More photos to follow about that later.

We landed in Guilin where a car from our hotel picked us up to drive to Yangshuo, which is about an hour from Guilin.  The whole point of our trip to this region was to see the karst peaks made out of limestone.
Here is a video of our car ride.

We arrived at night and in the morning we woke to a beautiful view. Note: all the photos can be enlarged by double clicking on them.

Our cute balcony.

And the view from our room.

I was jumping at the bit to get outside.....but Rebecca was still a little jet lagged! :)  Yes, she is wearing sunglasses in bed.

After getting up, we could check out the great place we were staying in.  Here is the front of our hotel.

It had a great courtyard where we ate breakfast in the morning.

After getting ourselves situated, we rented a taxi to take us to the Li River for a boat ride.  The peaks were everywhere and they say there are over 70,000 of them in the area.

When we arrived at the Li River, it was absolutely beautiful.

We rented a boat for about £18 with our own private captain.  You can spot the fact that the entire base of the boat is made out of PVC piping! 

 

Here is our captain getting us out of the small marina.

We were then on our way!  The boat had a small motor off the back that was surprisingly fast.

The views were great.

There were many other boats on the river and everyone waved at us as we sailed by.

Our captain docked so we could take a photo.  He picked this spot and took the photo.

We then got back on the water.

We passed some water buffalo who were playing around in the water.

Me taking in the view!

Our captain on his mobile phone.

We stopped off on a rocky out cove to get some more photos.  Besides the PVC piping boats, there were also a few large boats and it was surprising to see they did not bottom out.

We also saw people getting their wedding photos.

A video of the scenery.

After our boat ride, we walked around the small town that was near the river.  We spotted this sign that was on the road (which no one would ever read) that asked us not to ride the raft boats as they were illegal!  They were deemed unsafe for riders.  Oops!

Overall, it was a lovely day on the river.  More to follow.