All around us are pointy and round hills, loads of them. They fill the skyline and surround the town/village we are in, which is called Yuangshou (and hour outside Guilin). We’d heard that there is one such hill nearby that you can climb up and visit another well placed Buddhist temple overlooking the Li River, so this morning that’s what we did! We woke up early and ventured out, and enjoyed the views from the hill top temple. It was a lovely place to visit especially with no one else around.

A couple of hours later we headed off to find a cup of tea. We saw a sign for a tea house on the way in to town which also had free wifi, so we headed for there. It was a strange place, we followed the sign through a clothes shop and up some stairs past a second level of clothes, up some more stairs and in to a tiny little tea house with just enough room for us. It was a gorgeous place to rest and have tea, plus they had free wifi, bliss!
We’d done far too much to day (climbed a hill and drank tea) so we headed back to the hotel for a rest.

In the evening we went out on a small boat to see the fishermen fishing with Cormorants, you know like on telly! We putted along behind an old bamboo boat full of these slikly black birds who when they reached a certain spot all jumped in after fish. You probably know, but the birds have string around their necks so that when they catch a big fish they can’t swallow it, and the fisherman collects it from them, but they can swallow the smaller ones. It was very special to see this partnership upclose, and loads of fun to go boating on the Li River at night.

Tomorrow we’ve got a morning flight to Shanghai, our last major destination. No idea what to expect but certainly looking forward to it.