10th February, 2001.
Guilin To Yangshuo, Travelling By Boat. Li River Scenery And Skyline: Boat Building Activity. Eagle With Keeper On Quay, With Taxi And Hotel Agents. Buying Scrolls And Fans In Aladdin's Cave
August, 1987.
Going from Guilin to Yangshuo, travelling by boat, you can enjoy ever changing scenery. Guilin to Yangshuo on the Li River is a memorable experience and on a sunny day it could not be better !
 We would marvel at the scenery as the boat cruised through the bends in the river, or be distracted by the passing of traders' or farmers' boats on their way to their homes or to the markets. We would see the occasional farm house and buildings on the bank, where the mountains did not encroach, with tracks leading down to the river. Travelling by boat was a photographer's heaven and a group of children playing and swimming near one section of the bank, provided another image for the over-worked cameras.The well trained comorants of fishermen perched on their masters' boats moored in a river bay, then as we neared the end of our journey to Yangshuo, there was a change in bank activities. A boat building yard came into view with a blue lorry, complete with canvas top, parked nearby. Two tall smoking chimneys broke the 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 quay was a hub of activity and we walked past the many stalls and the taxi, restaurant, 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 with its keeper. The shops in the town were like magnets attracting the tourists into their Alladin 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 travelled 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.
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