cleaning the fowl for dinner is done right at the waterfront
parking your bamboo raft is a bit easier
women are doing the laundry
a huge karst finger
ths is the traditional bamboo raft
sometimes it gets a bit narrow
this is the scenery from chinese paintings, the only thing missing is the mist shrouds
the parking lot looks pretty full
we approach Yangshuo
cormorants waiting for action
water buffalos like water
Li River Tour

For eons the Li River has cut its way through a large karst formation in the Nanling mountains and thus helped create the strangely formed peaky mountains that are so familiar from Chinese paintings.

The landscape is particularly spectacular between Guilin and Yangshuo. Several companies provide rivercruises from Guilin, ranging from pretty basic bamboo rafts to luxurious cruisers with English speaking guides and a hot meal for lunch.

Irrespective of your transportation means, the panorama is just stunning, with the most scenic part between Yangdi and Xing Ping.

The cruise lasts about five hours and during that time you will see locals mending the rice paddies, hurding water buffalo, doing the washes or peddling a bamboo raft.

Cormorant Fishing is stil practiced here and you may pass rafts where these trained birds sit waiting for action.

We took the Li River cruise in May 2004.

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in the morning we have to find our boat at the Zhujiang Wharf
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and then we are on our way
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dressed up in traditional gear he expects a small fee for the photo. And the poor goldfish is for real.
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