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[Roger]

Yangshuo is a bottomless topic...

In WINTER most guesthouses provide HEATING (electric!). That's a lot better than a cheap pad in Guangzhou ("cheap" at 100 kuai!).

Most hills and mountains - you know these bizarre karst outcrops - are accessible on footpaths; admission is free in many cases (unlike in Guilin where they are hidden behind concrete monster buildings and where someone will hold you up for an admission fee of 25 kuai or more!).

You can rent bikes, and actually ride them!

There are numerous dirt trails and tracks for bikers and hikers - almost idyllic!

There is a park in the middle of town; foreigners and Chinese from outside of Yangshuo pay RMB 9; follow the wall in an SE direction along a small road, then enter the park through a small gate for free that is meant for locals who go to the park to do their taiqijuan.

Don't take a boat between Guilin and Yangshuo - a total ripoff! It is cheaper for Chinese because they take a boat that calls at a pier several hundred meters upriver from the main pier in Yangshuo; thus the Chinese walk a gauntlet of hundreds of souvenir stalls; foreigners are known not to buy, so they are charged a higher fare and dropped off closer to the far end of West Street.

Swap your English books, or buy second-hand ones from Johnny Lu, at CAFE TOO,
56 West Street. He has hundreds of relatively recent books and he is a fountain of travellers' wisdom and knowledge! Also meet fellow FTs there!
His website:
www.findbookshere.com

[TuckerP]

sounds pretty interesting! I am not really into drinking or porn, but I will try to tell Alf that you said hello!
ChinaMovieMagic--sounds like you had a good night of sleeping!