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Yangshuo Cooking School A Culinary Delight in China
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 1 February 2012
It wasn't something we would normally sign up for when traveling. We've been all over the word and while we enjoy eating food, we had never thought of learning how to cook it.
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Turning 4 Weeks in China from a Negative to a Positive
Blog: Living the Dream: RTW - 8 January 2012
There seems to be a common theme among travelers that visiting China is an eye opening experience. Between the initial culture shock, adaptation to the local cuisine, and frequent run-ins with the thick smog, China is often considered to be a love it or hate it destination. Th
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5 Outdoor Adventures Around Guilin, China
Blog: GoBackpacking - 26 December 2011
Guilin city is an extremely beautiful town located in the northern part of Guangxi Province, China. After arriving, I asked a local about the population of Guilin. “It’s very small, about 6 million,” she replied. I guess by Chinese standards that is rather small. Anyways, don’t let the mid-sized city population of Guilin throw you [...]
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Photo Essay: Inspirational Beauty of Yangshuo, China
Blog: GoBackpacking - 10 November 2011
y most recent trip to China was a month long visit to Yangshuo, a small town surrounded by karst mountains in Guangxi Province. The dramatic landscapes and beautiful scenery in the area has inspired the works of countless Chinese artists throughout history. Here’s a small collection of my favorite photos from Yangshuo, China. It’s a [...]
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A Little Light Show…Harmonizing Nature and Theatre in Yangshuo
Blog: A Little Adrift - A RTW Travelogue - 14 October 2011
Murmurings from the large audience hushed as a clear and open darkness dropped over our outdoor theatre. The silence was far from absolute though as a breeze swept nearby leaves into a quiet song, a gentle lapping of water, and eventually the sweet notes of a string instrument drifting up from the distant water as the show began. The boats paddled out from the edges of our riverside theatre and colored floodlights illuminated the distant limestone mountains in a myriad of primary colors accompanying the mood of the story. Back in 2008, I ...
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A Little Photo Essay…15 Favorites from Rural China
Blog: A Little Adrift - A RTW Travelogue - 15 August 2011
China was a country that challenged me as a traveler, there were food issues, language barriers and physical limitations because the country is huge. China is a seriously large country with lyrically pretty cityscapes and landscapes; from the wide multi-lane highways of impersonal Beijing to the sparkle of Shanghai, as is often the case, it's the countryside that compelled me the most.
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The Serious Fisherman
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 26 June 2011
We had just stepped off our bamboo raft on the Li River in China. As we walked up the river bank, this kind old man was sitting by the stairs greeting people as they walked by.
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China at Night; A Photo Story
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 9 January 2011
When the sun goes down China's cities come alive. Each city bursts into a neon work of art to welcome the dark. Historical sites, town squares, skyscrapers and street vendors. No one can escape the electric glow in a Chinese city and really who would want to.China at Night; A Photo Story is a post from: The Planet D: Canada's Adventure Couple
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Bamboo Rafting Down the Li River
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 13 December 2010
A visit to Yangshuo, China would not be complete without a bamboo cruise on the Li River. Our boat was more modern than we expected. I had visions of men using bamboo poles to push us down the river as we teetered on a thin hull. Instead, we boarded a large raft of plastic piping in the shape of bamboo that easily seated 4 people. The engine started up and put an end to the quiet dawn.
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Rock Climbing in Yangshuo China
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 8 December 2010
When visiting the world’s greatest Karst formations in Yangzhou, you can’t possibly consider not going climbing for an afternoon. The area surrounding Yangzhou is a climber’s paradise and die hards from around the world come to this region to conquer its routes for months on end. With hundreds of sport climbing routes and more being set every day, it is a world-class destination for climbing.
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Cycling the Countryside of Incredible Yangshuo
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 7 December 2010
We arrived in Yangshuo on an early morning train from the Hong Kong border. As we drove in comfort sheltered from the crisp air, I looked out the window to a wondrous sight. Layers of dark limestone peaks towered over the misty countryside creating the quintessential image of a mystical China. I knew that there were Karst formations in Yangshuo; I just didn’t expect to see them so soon.
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Morning Dawn on the Li River, China
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 4 December 2010
The Li River is one of the most photographed areas in all of China.It is easy to see why. Massive Karst formations rise up from it's banks reaching into the misty skies of Yangshuo. It was early morning when we started our bamboo raft from Yangdi to Xingping. This portion of the Li River is the most scenic section and it didn't disappoint.
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Hot Cupping. Therapy or Just Pain?
Blog: Canada's Adventure Couple - 2 December 2010
If the idea of having 24 big round bruises on your back for about a week sounds like fun to you, make sure to try hot cupping while in Yangshuo, China. For some unknown reason it sounded like fun to Dave and I and after a week of cycling, climbing and boating in China on top of a couple of weeks of hard adventure travel in Fiji, we thought that a relaxing session of hot cupping would be an excellent way to work out the kinks from travel.Hot Cupping.
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Yangshuo Holiday Nightmare
Blog: Living the Dream: RTW - 4 October 2010
One of my only travel regrets while on this trip was only booking two nights in Yangshuo, just 90 minutes outside of Guilin in China. Like many things, the scenic beauty of Yangshuo is something I can't just put into words and is easily in my personal top 3 places I
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Dog Day Afternoon
Blog: Drifting Aimless - 26 September 2010
The scene resembled something out of a horror movie. The frozen angry scowling death grimaces left me under no illusions; those dogs had died hard. Brandishing a huge meat cleaver, gleefully a man hammered away surrounded by what Id imagine the end-product of a stick of dynamite and a barrel full of dogs might well [...]
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The Wandering Bee
Blog: Drifting Aimless - 19 September 2010
I dipped my foot absent mindedly in the pool and traced small semi circles in the water. “So where else have you traveled?” I asked her. Taut and pressed tightly against her slight frame using arms for supported the Chinese-American girl dipped her legs down into the water. I had smiled when she told be [...]
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Monkeying around in Yangshuo
Blog: Drifting Aimless - 12 September 2010
“Ok, no problem, follow me, Ill show you how to catch the bus” “You’ll show me how to catch the bus?” I repeated slowly to myself as I followed the hostel girl out the door. This definitely sounds ominous I thought and my fears were soon shown to be well founded. Already encumbered, the plan [...]
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Yangshuo
Blog: Four Seas As Home - 22 April 2010
Since we spent longer than planned waiting for new visas in Hong Kong, we only had two full days around Yangshuo, and so we strapped on our hiking shoes and headed into the beautiful countryside. People in the area have clearly come to the conclusion that making money from tourists is much more pleasant than subsistence [...]
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So long and thanks for all the karst
Blog: eat drink seth liz - 29 August 2009
After two months, we were ready to leave the construction noise and crowds of Shanghai and set off on a week long adventure. Using her limited Chinese, and an assortment of travel books, Liz worked hard to plan the perfect getaway with sporty outdoors activities, adorable villages, and luxury pampering. We finally settled on a trip to the village of Ping An and the town of Yangshuo.
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So long and thanks for all the karst
Blog: eat drink seth liz - 28 August 2009
After two months, we were ready to leave the construction noise and crowds of Shanghai and set off on a week long adventure. Using her limited Chinese, and an assortment of travel books, Liz worked hard to plan the perfect getaway with sporty outdoors activities, adorable villages, and luxury pampering. We finally settled on a trip to the village of Ping An and the town of Yangshuo. Despite Liz's efforts, many important details were lost in translation. For Instance: Our hotel, the beautiful LiQing guest house is not accessible by car. We only discovered this important detail at 2am when,...
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So so Yangshuo
Blog: MatthewGain.com - 2 July 2009
The pictures in this post I believe speak for themselves. For me they capture the quintessential image of China made familiar from ink drawings and Willow pattern china plates. They were taken in Guangxi province near the town of Yangshuo. They are images that were stolen between torrential monsoonal downpours, along small dirt tracks and [...]
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Yangshuo: Anatomy of a Scam
Blog: 12FOOT3 - 26 June 2009
J and I are on our own again, and here’s where the story really gets interesting. Not that China wasn’t interesting before…it’s just that we’re now no longer on the 5-star hotel circuit. ‘Nuff said, right? Our next destination was Yangshuo, a town near the city of Guilin in Guangxi province, famous for its karst topography. [...]
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Yangshuo to Dali, China
Blog: Rice and Rock Concerts - 30 May 2009
Five days without an update, and that must surely have more to do with the dreadful internet speed over here in China than it does to do with my work ethic! I’m sitting in a bar in Dali, Yunnan. A peek over my right shoulder and I can see that for the first time in the two days that we’ve been here the rain has stopped. At approximately 3000m above sea level it should have come as no shock that it is wet and cold, but in a country known for ...
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Yangshuo, Guangxi, China
Blog: Rice and Rock Concerts - 26 May 2009
Yangshuo, Yunnan, China – Images by Jamie McDonald The same widget that cruelly counted down so slowly to my departure date is still ticking over on the mac and it now tells me that I’ve been on the road for ten days and fourteen hours. Why is it that time away goes so quickly compared to time at home? I’m in Yangshuo in Guanxi province – a city of 300,000 but the tourist area down on the Li River is a smattering of hostels, guesthouses, hotels and cafe’s where touts for all ...
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