Looks like this censorship thing is a little sporadic... am able to access my blog from this internet cafe, but will have to be quick because Fiona lost her access soon after publishing her post. This is funny, a race against some blocking software I imagine.
We woke up to banging on our door this morning at 7.30am. We slept through the alarm and woke to some angry banging from the receptionist telling us our bus was waiting for us downstairs! We had booked a bus to go to a minority village in Longsheng, a 4 hour drive away from Yangshuo. We jumped up, got dressed and ran out the door in about 5 mins, then proceeded to sleep the 4 hours to Longsheng.
Longsheng is famous for their rice terraces, an awesome feat of architecture, just row upon row of 2m wide rice paddies, that slope and curve around huge hills. It's hard to explain. A little anticlimactic after we saw some awesome pictures on postcards though. It was a nice relaxing day all round, just roaming around the terraces, being hassled by women who live in the villages who wanted to show us their long hair.
Found it a little difficult to climb up and down the steps though, my legs were hurting and found that my thumb was infected from a deep cut yesterday from the cave. I am a walking mass of bandaids! lol
All else is fine, we managed to get train tickets for Kunming on the 5th so heading out of Yangshuo then. Tomorrow we are checking out another village made famous by Bill Clinton on one of his visits. It may well be too touristy so we might head back early. Am completely addicted to the bubble tea and noodles here.
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