Oh Yangshuo, how I love thee.
Our 2nd vacation was at the beginning of April, and while our plans were to go to ZhangJiaJie, things didn't work out (we bought our train tickets for the wrong day, and then weren't able to get any for the right day), so Yangshuo it was! I really wasn't that big of a deal, we just switched the order of our vacation spots around. We took a sleeper bus to Yangshuo...with 14 other ILP teachers. We were with Dachong and Kaiyin. The 4 of us had a good time on our bus ride, but some of the other girls, near the back of the bus had beds infested with cockroaches. Not so great. The traffic was bad too, or something...cuz it took us 12 hours instead of like 8 to get to Yangshuo.We were greeted by gorgeous views, as always.
Yangshuo is amazing!
We rented scooters from Esther on the first day we were there. She's such a funny lady.
We rode to Moon Hill and decided to climb up to it.
Soooo many stairs.
But it was worth it. Such a great view!
It was tiring, climbing up all 800+ stairs, but I'm glad we did.
We went to the Big Banyan tree after Moon Hill. Such a cool tree.
The river was really high our whole trip. We weren't able to see the view that we wanted to on our bamboo raft tour because that particular river was too high.
Breathtaking.
Love this place!
Oh you know, just a man taking his...water buffalo? down the street... no biggie.
Oh gosh. We ate a lot of these. Amazing mango smoothies.
Busy West Street. Everyone waddling along.
Our mud caves were amazing!
Chocolate pancake things! mmmmm
Harry Potter was contemplating buying some chocolate pancakes too.
Banana bread! Best 5RMB spent. It came warm and buttered.
Night view.
Cormorant fisherman.
We found this super cute little postcard shop where you write a postcard to the future.
We're pretty sure that's a man...breastfeeding. This picture was hanging in a restaurant we ate at.
I ate a lot of pizza in Yangshuo. How could I resist?
The bathroom lights at our hostel were blinding and probably could've given us a suntan if we had stood in front of them for too long.
Oh gosh. Our crazy Canadian roommate. We met her at 11am, and she was still plastered. She asked us where we were from every couple minutes...although...she had some competition for craziest/most obnoxious roommate. Our other roommate fell out of his top bunk at like 4am, and somehow spun around 90 degrees, landing between the other 2 sets of bunk beds in the room. We thought he died, cuz he wasn't moving...turns out he was ok?
I love my life.
Me and Lex on our bamboo river raft down the YuLong River.
I would go back to Yangshuo in a heartbeat. I love it.
Our bamboo raft driver. I loved that he was barefoot.
Corn Juice. So many (inappropriate and nonsensical) things said about this place.
Delicious fresh donut.
<3
David Beckham, hiding in the bushes.
It was a great vacation. We were all sad to leave. Yangshuo is a magical place.
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