Wednesday, July 23rd Finally, a day of our vacation when we can actually relax and sleep in a bit. We got out the door by about 11am and headed to a nice little cafe called Kelly’s for brunch. Yangshuo is a pretty touristy little place, maybe at a different time we would have enjoyed it less, but right now a little English and a nice western brunch were welcomed treats.
We rented bikes from our hotel and had an experience that fondly recalled biking through Chianti or Martha’s Vineyard hills. It was beautiful and we were quickly in the countryside and surrounded by the steep narrow mountains. This terrain is perfect for a scenic ride, the land between the peaks is completely flat, so you get all the beauty up close with no extra effort required. We rode about 15 km on our rickety old bikes.
We made it back to the hotel and returned the bikes. We did some more shopping and bargaining on the streets. We were invited into one old shopkeeper’s house and he wanted his picture taken with Jeannette. We went back to Kelly’s for a quick dinner, Jeannette had a burger prepared in the Chinese way (something like meatloaf). Then we had to pack up and have a quick transition to meet our sleeper bus to Shenzhen (once again picked up on the side of a random street).
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