a single day in YangShuo

I spoke with Pauline and Urinuri the previous day on the bus to Yangdi. I was riding the bike to the Dragon’s bridge, when I turned left from the main road, I turned my head to see if there are other tourists, to validate the way. And I so Pauline !

We went together to Moon Hill. When you arrived, an old lady offered to take us on another way, cheaper by 0.8 euros. Me and Urinuri agreed right away, Pauline had “moral” concerns to jump the fence. I enjoy to get off the tourist .

 Pauline is a French comedian. She did theater with people in the final phase, with AIDS. She said it’s great, she gets a lot of energy from them, but on the other hand, she feels very bad when someone passes away. Now she has her own theater company and helps people convicted for crime to relive by art.

Urinuri is South Korean, he started his business 5 years ago in Canton. He develops English learning applications for Chinese. He said it’s very easy to work with people in Canton, because they are very business oriented.

  I bought the ticket to the cave from this woman who was selling water on the Moon Hill. She can speak a little English. She has 2 children, the oldest is student, but he is not too diligent. I know that now, 50% of high-school graduates go to university, but I still I find amazing. She doesn’t remember Mao, but now things are by far better than the past.

 The only time when I heard Flemish was from this girl.

 I went to the Water Cave. It’s a must to see in Yangshuo. I arrived at around 1 and went out at 5. There is a mud pool. After I became a pig, I visited the rest of the huge cave, the mud keeping warm.

 I so an interesting path in the cave which wasn’t on our root. I asked the guide to see that area for 1 minute. She was very kind, she left the others on their own, and came with me for more than 10 minutes. I’ve never seen columns of 20 meters.

 And then I rejoined the group in a Spa in the cave. There are 4 natural pools, there is a hot spring, so the water goes from one pool to the other. First I went in the coolest and lowest one, to clean myself and then, one pool after another, we spent more than 3 hours. The Chinese spoke with the guide all this time, but the language is like a bird twit, so it wasn’t disturbing. I was floating. After one hour of watching the ceiling which is more interesting than the floor, I had the feeling that I fly, that I am suspended by the ceiling. I had an idea, to buy a tv set and to hang it by the ceiling, and to install a pool in the room.

 The sirens from Shanghai

 My niece

 I hate shopping, I wear mostly what I receive as present, but I had to ask the man from the travel agency where I can find something like this

 On the road was an empty palace with a beautiful view. One of the 3 regrets of this trip is that I didn’t meet the people living here

 A try a la Luc Bresson

 All this green island si just one tree

 Here I spent about half an hour and 30 photos.

I came back in the city at 7 with the group of Americans from the hostel, and I remembered that I booked a ticket for cormorant fishing. So I postponed the beer.

The man blocks the cormorant neck with something, so the bird cannot eat the fish it catches. The fisherman pulls the bird, gets the fish from the beak, and then frees again the cormorant, which swims under the water for fish. It was interesting, but too many tourists from hotel, or maybe I was too tired