The village itself turned out to be not as small as we thought, so I guess it easily could be called a town. Some pictures of the village that we took in the morning
The best way to travel around the area is by bicycle. We rented a double bicycle which was very efficient, we were going in general twice as fast as other people riding the regular ones.
In the afternoon we arrived to the "Moon Hill", not a high hill (410 meters), but good place to see surroundings from the top. In the very bottom of the hill we met a lady who absolutely wanted us to buy something from her. In general in China if you don't want somebody to attack you in the street with their goods to say "no, thanks" is not enough. Sellers can be very annoying. Once they saw you noticed them they could follow you for half a kilometer pushing their goods in front of your nose, so the best way to avoid that is just to ignore them. But this lady was something unbelievable. We started to walk up the hill so we thought she will turn around and go back. But that was not the case, she kept following us while we were climbing the hill saying strange words. That's what we understood her saying "Hello, beautiful pussycat, you buy, ok?". The lady seemed to be very strange, so we thought if we start walking very fast she will get tired, she wasn't that young after all. We were almost running, but every time we looked back she was not more than 10 m. behind repeating the same words. At some point we became very tired, so we just stopped and sat down. She did the same. Then we saw some Chinese tourists climbing up the same way, so we were quite happy about it, we thought she will start following them, but that wasn't obviously her goal, she even didn't look at them. So after a while we started to continue our way up, she did the same. What was our surprise when on the top of the hill we saw many of those ladies, selling "beautiful pussycats", which actually were "beautiful postcards" (most of Chinese people can't pronounce "r", in Chinese language there is no such sound) only to non-Chinese tourists. Probably because Chinese tourists are more familiar with usual prices for postcards :)
Pictures from the top
On the way back to Yangshuo village
If you look at the picture from some distance it looks like a black moon!
In Yangshuo just for less than 30 Yuan, which is about 3 Euro I got a half an hour head massage and a haircut! I don't remember paying so cheap even in Lithuania. An interesting thing about male hairdressers is that all of them had really long nails on all the fingers, in fact much longer than normally women have. I am still wondering if this is compulsory in China for all hairdressers or was it just a style of this barber shop?!
The best way to travel around the area is by bicycle. We rented a double bicycle which was very efficient, we were going in general twice as fast as other people riding the regular ones.
In the afternoon we arrived to the "Moon Hill", not a high hill (410 meters), but good place to see surroundings from the top. In the very bottom of the hill we met a lady who absolutely wanted us to buy something from her. In general in China if you don't want somebody to attack you in the street with their goods to say "no, thanks" is not enough. Sellers can be very annoying. Once they saw you noticed them they could follow you for half a kilometer pushing their goods in front of your nose, so the best way to avoid that is just to ignore them. But this lady was something unbelievable. We started to walk up the hill so we thought she will turn around and go back. But that was not the case, she kept following us while we were climbing the hill saying strange words. That's what we understood her saying "Hello, beautiful pussycat, you buy, ok?". The lady seemed to be very strange, so we thought if we start walking very fast she will get tired, she wasn't that young after all. We were almost running, but every time we looked back she was not more than 10 m. behind repeating the same words. At some point we became very tired, so we just stopped and sat down. She did the same. Then we saw some Chinese tourists climbing up the same way, so we were quite happy about it, we thought she will start following them, but that wasn't obviously her goal, she even didn't look at them. So after a while we started to continue our way up, she did the same. What was our surprise when on the top of the hill we saw many of those ladies, selling "beautiful pussycats", which actually were "beautiful postcards" (most of Chinese people can't pronounce "r", in Chinese language there is no such sound) only to non-Chinese tourists. Probably because Chinese tourists are more familiar with usual prices for postcards :)
Pictures from the top
On the way back to Yangshuo village
If you look at the picture from some distance it looks like a black moon!
In Yangshuo just for less than 30 Yuan, which is about 3 Euro I got a half an hour head massage and a haircut! I don't remember paying so cheap even in Lithuania. An interesting thing about male hairdressers is that all of them had really long nails on all the fingers, in fact much longer than normally women have. I am still wondering if this is compulsory in China for all hairdressers or was it just a style of this barber shop?!
1 comment:
Nice haircut!!!
Cool bike!!! I have never used a bike like this! And the effect from the bridge-reflection in the water reminds the wheels of the bike =)
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