Silhouette of Water Buffalo, Li River, Guangxi, China

An early morning rise of 6AM saw us on a local bus up to Xingping. Hop on a little boat and we were off on a sunrise tour of the Li River. First stop, the view that is pictured on the 20 Remnimbi note (Chinese currency). See pics of this in our photo page. As we puttered up river, the scenery was again, spectacular. As the sun rose over the pinnacles, and light dawned upon the river, the people were out fishing, doing laundry and walking their water buffalo. Some of the beasts were swimming in the river or just lounging around. Of course, the peaks were all named things like Nine Horse Fresco Hill, or Lion Looking Over Nine Horse Fresco Hill!
On the boat were 5 other Chinese people. Two were younger girls named Daisy and Joan (their English names), and I think they must have taken 200 pictures of each other in various poses on the boat. They even had to borrow our camera with their card, as their battery ran out. It was funny to watch, but they were really friendly and walked back to the bus station with us, buying us some street meat - little fish, shrimp or crabs on a skewer, deep fried to perfection!
Back by noon and we felt like we had a full day already. A relaxing afternoon, then we headed out that evening for dinner, then to Monkey Jane's Rooftop Bar and party it up with friends until 4:30 AM. *Stub