The Thermo conference this year is in Guilin in southern China. I decided to travel one day earlier, to have a bit of time to look around and get used to the time difference. Last time we were in China was about 15 years ago and one of the places we went to was Yanshuo, a town about 65 km south of Guilin and in the middle of the karst landscape. I remember Yanshuo as a quiet village in beautiful surroundings and popular with backpackers. Today, I took the bus to Yanshuo and walked around. It has metamorphosed into a buzzling mass tourism town. Not quite what I had in mind, but I still saw some of the nice landscape and had a very good meal in Yanshuo.
Li river
Wooden rafts waiting for tourists
Li river in Yanshuo
Just outside Yanshuo, rice paddies and vegetable fields
Water buffalo in someone's backyard
Yanshuo from a small hill in town
Yanshuo near the bus station with the small hill I walked up
Lots of good fruit
Busy shopping streets, mostly catering for tourists
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