10th day off to yangshuo

So woke up today, dorm has no food to give anyone. nice. its 8am in the morning and most places aren't open, today i have a boat trip down the li river so need some food.

Managed to find a bakery and i brought what i thoguht was cheesey bread, but turned out to be an iced bun. Oh well its food and tastes good. Not the ideal breakfast thought !!!!

So got to the motor boat, not sure this is gonna fit 4 people and four bagpacks, but it does. actually there was a bag on the front of the boat, which was hindering the drivers view but he was happy.

Oh wow if anyone goes to china you need to get a boat trip down the li river, the normal boats take 5hrs, but our one took 2-3hrs. thats enough i feel. The area is so pictureques and as usual the pics above dont do it justice. Actually saw some wild buffilo swimming in the river, which was amazing to see in the wild (a first for me). At first i was takening lots of pics, but after abuot an hour i thought how many pics do i need of these mountains.

Boat was ok, the driver looked miserable as hell, but we did get a smile out of him when we were shouting and screaming yahoo at the other boats. he was ok thought, didn't speak a word of english. as most chinese.

Get to the hostel, it is just a house that a family of chinese run. really nice family father speaks very very good english. and they are all so nice. quiet smiley which is differen, not sure i have actually seen any chinses smile till now. Well expect the ones that what my money and i guess they do aswell.

Hostel is nice and clean we all have to take our shoes off when entering the place. so bearfoot all the way. room is excellent, again spotlessly clean, and shower works perfectly. however the hot and cold is the wrong way round from all the other places, and i didn't learn that till after my first cold shower.

When we got here, the wife cooked us some fried rice (all food is included in this hostel). that was really nice and wow what a plate i couldn't even finish it. All three of us (danny, amber, kacey (may of spelt her name wrong on the other blog oops, will correct it at some point)) saw on the wall "the real water cave". now i know i went to two caves yesterday but this one you can swim in it and they have a mud bath. oh yeah babe a mud bath. So first thing we do is go there. and a good price, it normally costs 160 it get in, but the hostel got us tickets for 60. nice one hostel :)

cave was actually different to all the rest, it was still a cave with rocks (that are all called something, mother holding baby blah blah, and no they dont really look like them)) but we got to the mud and that was really good. Feels so wierd to be swimming in mud, right dirty experiance, pic above (which is a pic of a pic so its not good quality) so i had to buy a pic from them, brought two one of all four of us, and one of the whole group.

After the mud it was more walking past rocks, which we had a women who didn't like inclosed spaces whinging that she only paid for 2 hrs and its now getting on three. well lady if yo donlt like places like that dont go down them, and she got a good deal, paid for half day and got a full day, stop complaining. actually amber being amber told her that. go girl.

got to the swiming bit, guide told us we could jump in, no one was willing to. Ian to the rescue. so i jump in first. no problem, didn't even touvh the bottom. so after that everyone joins in. was a really nice day.

Got back to thostel, had some lovely food. about 6 dishs just on a revolving table, but wow this wife can cook. seriously cook.

We then all decided to go out drinking down the local street (west street). Found a nice bar called legend. they had the cheapest beer 10 for a litre bottle (60 pence, nice !!!) That turned out to be a realy good night, we infact had the whole place to ourselfs, and even had a lock in with the staff. The staff were so cool, taught us how to play a silly chinese game like paper scissors, stone. it was ok fun at the time. then we were pestering the 17 year old waiter trying to get him drunk and stuff. actually the girls grabbed him and tried to force feed him, he w3as ok about it and knew it was just fun, another waiter did a magic trick and stuff. really good.

We also got onto the tequila, not sure how much we had but alot.

After the bar or after we had had enough, we went for a bbq with a couple of the waiters, 17 year old and a little cutey watiress (who was so scared of me, cos she asked what i liked i told her her, that was it she was so scared and stayed away from me the for the time we was with them) I say bbq, well a street bbq. wow it was soo good. probably anything would of tasted good at 4 in the morning with tequila and beer in me. Food was a little over cooked, but no problem, there, better then the other way.

So finally got back to the hostel again about 4. Had to carry danny home, but wow he remembers everything and knew exactly what was going on, impressive seen as he couldn't walk.