Our next destination was Yangshuo in Guangxi province, and as we got on the ramshackled bus we were greeted by two layers of narrow chrome bunkbeds in three neat rows down the length of the bus. The sleeper bus was obviously not a tourist bus and was quite an experience! And so much for being a 'sleeper bus' - I didn't sleep a wink! It rattled and jolted and the horn beeped for 13 hours landing us in Yangshuo at 2.30 in the morning. We had not anticipated this, but thankfully finding a bed wasn't too painful as there were touts waiting for us even at that time in the morning. Martin had wanted to be in this area for his Birthday and you can see why from the pictures - beautiful karst rock formations and limestone pinnacles everywhere we looked. We spent the afternoon walking up one of the steep hills just in time for sunset. Afterwards it was off for some delicious food to celebrate his Birthday.
On our second evening in Yangshuo we watched the local cormorant fishing, where the fisherman use their cormorants to dive for fish. The birds are not able to swallow the fish as their throats are tied which means the fisherman can shake the fish free. It's a pretty ingenius way to fish and the birds seemed well looked after. *Mush
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