This week was China's annual Dragon Boat Festival which Caterpillar marked by giving us Thursday and Friday off from work. Kathleen set us up with a trip to Yangshou and the Li River in southern China. Although we have now been in China for almost two years and have been to several Asian countries on R&Rs, we haven't done much travelling yet within China. For this trip, we flew two hours south to Guilin, the capital of Guangxi province, to the west of Hong Kong.
If you have ever seen a National Geographic article about the wonders of China's countryside, you have certainly seen pictures of this region. It is a spectacular setting of steep mountains popping out of flowing rivers and pastoral rice fields. We started our vacation with a small six person boat cruise down the Li River which connects Guilin and Yangshou. The next day we had another river experience on smaller three person "bamboo boats" on a tributary called the Yu Long River.
Everywhere we looked, the scenery was amazing. The boat rides themselves were also quite a lot of fun with waterfalls and a few rapids that got our feet wet.
If you have ever seen a National Geographic article about the wonders of China's countryside, you have certainly seen pictures of this region. It is a spectacular setting of steep mountains popping out of flowing rivers and pastoral rice fields. We started our vacation with a small six person boat cruise down the Li River which connects Guilin and Yangshou. The next day we had another river experience on smaller three person "bamboo boats" on a tributary called the Yu Long River.
Everywhere we looked, the scenery was amazing. The boat rides themselves were also quite a lot of fun with waterfalls and a few rapids that got our feet wet.
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