We were excited to get back to Yangshuo (the town where we spent Martin's birthday back in October). Not only for the fantastic scenery, but also to have a break from speaking Chinese (the people speak English here), which means, of course, it's touristy ....but wonderful western food abounds! Mmm! Heaven! That first Red Star Burger with all the trimmings (including CHEESE) was pretty fantastic! So the next few lazy days we didn't do a lot -caught up on internet, went out for nice food, walked around town (which would get quite sticky as it was so hot). We did actually make it a couple of times for sunset at Monkey Jane's Rooftop Bar, but mostly we watched movies in our air conditioned room (very luxurious for us!) and not only did we have a TV, but a DVD player too -the height of luxury indeed! We had splashed out a bit and paid more than usual - about $9 (5 quid)!
We were sorry to see that the town had changed a lot in the last 8 months -with more neon flashing lights and more glitzy posh shoe and handbag shops. But inspite of this it is still a small town (for China, anyway) with charming streets and fantastic scenery, and all in all we ended up staying longer than we intended. This happened to us last time we were in Yangshuo, and we met so many people that this happens to: as soon as you hit Yangshuo you slow down, take it easy, walk around a bit, chill out a bit more etc etc.. therefore needing more time to explore the area and have to keep adding days to your stay - we call it the Yangshuo Effect! It's great! *Mush
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