The mountains and scenery in Yangshuo (just south of Guilin) are really incredible. I haven't seen anything like it before and I'm not sure if there's anywhere else in the world with topography like that. Truly a gem! The area is full of caves, too, and the Chinese do a magical job of lighting up the caverns and stalagmites so that it looks very cool. Also visited an organic tea plantation, and an isolated village where they paint scenery on fans (a dying art - most of the fans you see now are machine printed). Took a short bamboo raft trip down the Dragon River and narrowly missed getting thrown overboard in the Class 5 rapids (ha,ha). It was cold there, too, but not as cold as Xi'an. It rained the first day, but after that just cloudy or partly sunny. It is not prime tourist season down there now, so it was nice not to have huge crowds (although the trees and bushes were not flowering which is also a big attraction). All in all, a nice, short, 4 day trip!
And now, it's off to Bali for 7-8 days. Weather there looks warm, maybe a bit cloudy with showers, but that's ok! More later...
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