Li River Scenery Changes At Bends Eagle With Keeper On Yangshuo Quay

The Li River cruise from Guilin to Yangshuo was a very enjoyable experience, with ever changing scenery on a sunny day. We took pictures of the scenery as the Li River boat cruised through the bends, then were distracted by the passing boats of the Li River traders or farmers. We saw the occasional farm house and buildings on the Li River bank, where the mountains did not encroach, with tracks leading down to the river. A group of children playing and swimming near one section of the bank, provided another image for the over-worked cameras. We saw trained comorants of fishermen perched on their masters' boats moored in a Li River bay, then as we neared the end of our journey to Yangshuo, there was a change in bank activities. Two tall smoking chimneys broke the Li River skyline and a concrete road led down to the river.

Arriving in Yangshuo, our cruise boat inched its way cautiously to its moorings close to the many other boats already moored. The Li River quay was a hub of activity and we walked past the many stalls and the taxi, and hotel "agents" up steps to the town, but first Jun paid a few cents so that I could take a photograph of an eagle, bred or captured, with its keeper. It was worth the fee for another China photo !

Yangshuo Shops Like Aladdin Caves

The shops in the Li River town were like magnets attracting the tourists into their Aladdin Caves, and in one of them we bought one large scroll and two large wall fans, which subsequently, we just managed to pack into one of our biggest suitcases, and they traveled with us throughout the rest of the 21 day tour ! In retrospect, it would have been wiser to have waited until the end of the tour to buy such items, but we had no means of knowing whether we would see the like of them again.