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Highlights of the trip - Huangyao is always interesting, although my favorite tree there seems to be needing a hefty set of crutches (and undergone major surgery). "Western food" restaurants may be falling by the wayside as their business falls off, and their western proprietors head back home, but it seems to be getting easier to find western-style items on various menus. I had two of the BEST Philly cheesesteak sandwiches I've had ANYWHERE. The German Beer House restaurant on West Street is still going strong. We had a nice trip up the Yulong River (by car - too cold and windy for a raft trip). We found two of the three ancient bridges (they told us the third had fallen to rubble, and no one but a few old timers knew where it was). And . . . we stayed at the Secret Garden in Jiuxian. It seems to be acquiring some fairly heavy competition there. Jiaying took a LOT of pictures on her cell phone around our room - I think she'll be using some ideas she got there on her own building. The road to the Secret Garden got a little winding and narrow The Philly cheesesteak I had there was EXCELLENT! On the menu as black pepper sauce beef and cheese baguette the second of three ancient bridges - Dragon Bridge Just DON'T do it!
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Some pictures from our recent stay at an 11 room hotel in Jiuxian near Yangshuo http://www.yangshuosecretgarden.com/ Fengzi is Mandarin for 'Crazy Man' - which is what he (Ian Hamilton) was called while the Chinese watched him get his start on the plans for the hotel Fengzi was one of the three expats covered by the SCMP in this article - Three Expats in rural Guangxi We didn't get to meet him. He apparently keeps a different schedule than we did (we slept from 10PM to 10AM the next morning), and lives in the next town. I think he usually drops by to greet those arriving or departing, but we drove our own car.
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Picturesque China You Haven't Seen Before . . . from Xinhua not available - try this - https://www.fluentu.com/blog/travel/most-beautiful-places-in-china/
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This was our trip to the Yulong River, a small tributary of the Lijiang, near Yangshuo. This is where the boats start from, most heading South for a one-way trip downriver. We headed North for a round trip to the Yulong River bridge. Jiaying got us on an economy tour - a boat that looked like it would barely stay afloat for only ¥130, instead of the ¥200 that most people paid.
