Travelwithkevinandruth

"Now wait a minute..." I can hear some of you saying. "Hong Kong is part of China".

While this is technically true, in reality Hong Kong is a country. You have to go through border control from China to Hong Kong or vice versa. Hong Kong has its own currency. They even send their own team to the Olympics.

The sun decided to make an appearance during our last day in China, and it came out at exactly the right time as some of the photos below will show.
We decided to take a Didi taxi all the way to the ancient village of Xingping. There, we learned that the tour boats were allowed back on the water, but by this time we had already decided that the really good views weren't from ...

Yesterday I mentioned that we were okay with missing the boat trip that we came here for. It turns out that much of the scenery that you can see by boat can also be seen from many of the paths that line the river.
So we rented an "electric bicycle" which in reality is not a bicycle of any kind... we would call it a scooter.

On Wednesday, we walked into the small city of Yangshuo itself. Very much a tourist town, but kinda fun to wander around. 
And it's located right at the end of the section of the Li River where they normally do the boat cruises from Guilin.

We waited out the rain in the morning, and then headed back out to do some more exploring. We didn't have a lot of success though! We tried to find a hiking trail, and when we did there was a sign at the entrance saying there had been a landslide and it was closed. 
Then we went to a cave that was open to the public, but it was so commercialized (with colored lights etc....