Day 20: Yangshuo - Bike route around Yangshuo: Big Banyan tree, Moon Hill, Yulong Bridge - Yangshuo
Today the alarm sounds at 6 in the morning, but we are not going to lie to you, and the moment has come for us on this trip to China for free in which the night does not fit us, no matter if it is 6 or 8 hours, so, as today we have a fairly quiet day, although we have several things what to see and do in Yangshuo, we opted to delay the alarm 20 minutes and thus take a little more rest after arriving yesterday in the city on the Li River cruise to Yangshuo.
At 8 we are leaving our hotel, the Yangshuo Magnolia Hotel and although there is almost nothing open at this time, and that is, as we could see yesterday, Yangshuo has a lot of nightlife and people take advantage until the last minute of the Night the lively atmosphere of this beautiful town.
As we do not have breakfast in our hotel, we go straight in search of a cafeteria and seeing that they are also still closed, we enter the cafeteria of a hotel where we order a couple of banana crêpes with two expresses (finally we can savor an espresso really in China), to renew us and encourage us for everything we have what to see and do in Yangshuo for 70RMB.
Breakfast in Yangshuo
A few minutes before 9 in the morning, and today we have considered a day more free than what we have taken so far on this trip to China, we are looking for an unusual vehicle in Yangshuo, which we saw yesterday in an alley half abandoned and that has got us between eyebrow and eyebrow as a vehicle for our Yangshuo bike route from today.
Our vehicle in Yangshuo
We return to the alley, we take a picture of the bi-bike and we go through West Street, where most of the stores are bike and motorcycle rental in Yangshuo, in search of the owner of abandoned vehicle.
In the end, between them they end up locating him and laughing, he implies that nobody ever wants that, he rents it all day for 100RMB. We have to say that we try to haggle a little, but seeing that he has no intention of giving in, it is clear that he has seen us interested, we accept and there we are going totour around Yangshuo by double bike
The first section is to do it by road quite carefully and it is to be said that the Chinese are not exactly the best drivers in the world, and little by little we travel miles away from Yangshuo and into stunning landscapes.
Yanghuo by bicycle. What to see and do in Yangshuo
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Stunning landscapes in Yangshuo
We do not carry any predefined route, so we follow the cartels along the road that indicate the most important tourist attractions in the area, also passing in front of the Moon Hill in Yangshuo, where in principle we will not climb, although they say that the views from there are impressive.
Landscapes around Yangshuo
Moon Hill. What to see and do in Yangshuo
After passing the Moon Hill, we follow a kilometer and a half and we arrive at Langmen Village, a small town on the banks of the river, where we stop for a while to enjoy the breathtaking views and above all to enjoy the local life.
Langmen Village Surroundings
What to see and do in Yangshuo
We had sincerely read a lot aboutwhat to see and do in Yangshuobut after our experience, we have to say to get here and not enjoy a day discovering the incredible surroundings, whether on foot, by bike or by bi-bike Like us, it is a sin.
Fields around Yangshuo
What to see and do in Yangshuo
It's almost 11 in the morning when we get to a path that is stony enough not to want to risk if we follow the road and we can't forget that we don't have a mountain bike, so we turn, back to Yangshuo, but taking the opportunity to go into lateral paths that we see from the road and from which we have good views.
Street Travelers in Yangshuo
We are following the roads and when we see that they already flow into stony ground, we turn around and return to the road so as not to call the bad weather, look for a problem and stay halfway.
Yangshuo surroundings
Landscapes around Yangshuo
The truth is that today we have to say that we are lucky that we have a day more gray than the previous days, because if not the pedaling would have become insufferable in many of the slopes. Although it must be said that with our particular umbrella the sun has not finished attack us.
Around Yangshuo by bike
The rental of the bicycle lasts until 6 pm but our idea is to rest this afternoon a little at the hotel and so at least have a few hours of "holidays" in this trip to China for free, so after 2 pm we make the last kilometers to reach Yangshuo, return our super vehicle and collect the 200RMB deposit we had left.
Finish our cycling experience around Yanghsuo
With this vehicle We can say that we have been the entertainment of the morning for many locals and many tourists, and they really do not have them in sight to rent, so people do not even know that it exists.
If you liked the idea and want to rent one, take the picture and ask right at the entrance of West Street, next to the KFC and you will be sure to look for the owner.
After this morning in Yangshuo where we have practiced a little sport, it seems not, but you can not imagine what it costs to pedal this dish uphill, we stop at a restaurant where we eat a plate of fish and a pepper steak plus beer and water for 110RMB that make us feel great. And you know what? Just when we are entering the restaurant it starts to rain! We haven't told you a thousand times how lucky we are in our free travels over time, right?
Seeing how the weather is and wanting to rest for a while, when we have just eaten we go to the hotel for a couple of hours to rest and put the blog a bit up to date. It's after 6 in the afternoon when we see that it has stopped raining and we return to the streets of Yangshuo, to walk the walk along the river and to travel each and every one of its streets, full of souvenir shops, restaurants and coffee shops, looking for the occasional detail for the family and also enjoying the occasional stop to refresh ourselves, among which we include one to take a bowl of mango, by the way in this area of China they are in vice.
It's 9 in the afternoon when we stop for dinner in an Italian where we order a pizza and a lasagna (Roger), which by the way has to leave whole because more than lasagna is Lasagna floating in water of defrosting 😉
Dinner in Yangshuo with thawed lasagna in the background of the image
And so we get at 10 pm when we return to the Yangshuo Magnolia Hotel to rest for tomorrow to head to our last destination of the trip: Hong Kong
Day 21: Yangshuo - Guilin - Shenzhen - Hong Kong
