Li River to Yangshuo

My new friends. They are darling!

I'm getting seriously behind on our travel update. We are now in the third week of the second semester and I haven't finished blogging about our semester break. We left Hong Kong and arrived in Guilin where we took a 4 1/2 hour cruise down the Li River, the connecting waterway between Guilin and Yangshuo. The river forms a green gauze belt, the mountains are like blue jade hairpins. It is extraordinary. It was foggy, but still spectacular. There was bamboo, cormorant fisherman in small boats and picturesque villages along the way. Yangshuo was fantastic. Such a quaint little village with street markets and the mountain backdrop. In the evening we enjoyed watching the cormorants catching fish. The birds dive under water and catch the fish. The fisherman have a cord around the bird's neck so they cannot swallow the fish. Really amazing. We took golf carts on a ride through the countryside to see farming, rice paddies and visit a local home. This was one of our favorite spots on our Southwest China tour. (more photos)