This was the most relaxing day of the trip. We had pushed every day to sight see but today was leisurely! No cars are allowed on the 10 mile gallery so our scooters were awesome. Darren had originally planned to rent bikes to bike it but scooters were so much more fun! The 10 mile Gallery has tons of things to see but we found that most of them are overly touristy and we wanted to avoid that. So we only went to the Big Banyan Tree and Moon Hill. It was all along the Yulong River so it was beautiful. As we were cruising along we saw some rock climbing going on. All the wonderful rocks we had been seeing had been eating at me so it was such a great thing to go climb and get it out of my system. The rock was sharp for sure. Limestone. I did a 10D which is hard in the gym!
I adore trees. I love roots. This tree was amazing. So old. So cool to see how the the tree sent down roots from the branches to help stabilize the tree. Brittany made us girls dress up in some traditional dress and take photos. It wasn't too bad.
We cruised around at a leisurely pass all day and as evening set in we had to hit up on more place... Shangrala. Its totally touristy and we didn't want to pay 25$/per person to get in but they let us in for 15 minutes since they were closing. It was beautiful because it was empty and the sun was setting. I do need to find out why they have red lanterns all over China.
Then we seriously floored it to get back to Yangshuo in time to drop off the scooters. It is such a beautiful town. The night life is lovely. We hiked up a hill by our hostel to see the sunset and check out the view. You can see the drone over our heads with Darren and I sitting up on a tower. This place was the highlight of the trip for sure.
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