Wednesday, October 26, 2011

STICKY RICE - YANGSHUO 26 Oct.

"Keep together like sticky rice", ordered Ocean as we wound our way through the hordes of tourists to board a riverboat for a 5-hour cruise down the Li River to Yangshuo, in 2003 a small backwater hippie community with one short main street lined with cafes and DVD stores.  Development has transformed this village into a full-fledged small city, with many hotels and major thoroughfares lined with vendors selling the ubiquitous Pashmina scarves, "silk" Chinese children's costumes, and tons of other tourist items that we've seen all over the country.  The overabundance of "stuff" has finally lost its allure, and the walkway from the boat to the Yangshuo center was a test of our ability to ignore.







SIGHTS ALONG THE LI RIVER


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