{"id":213,"date":"2009-07-16T17:37:54","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T21:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web1prod.sunflowerit.ca\/wordpress\/?p=213"},"modified":"2025-07-03T15:12:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T19:12:10","slug":"yangshuoguilin-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sunflowerit.ca\/travel\/china-2009\/trips-asia\/other-trips\/yangshuoguilin-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Yangshuo\/Guilin – Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

As much as Jenny was looking forward to her classmate reunion, I was hoping to get an opportunity to bike in China. Well, on Wednesday, my wish came true. We opted for a real bamboo raft excursion. A very popular way for tourist to get to the dock where the raft start its trip down the river is to bike. So, we rented, near by our hotel a tandem for Victoria and I and another regular bike for Jenny. Our hotel staff arranged to be escorted from our hotel by the person that would be running our bamboo raft. So all of us biked from our hotel through hectic traffic, then through small roads and even through colorful rice fields and finally arrived at the dock. Our bike were promptly loaded on a truck to be brought to the dock location at the end of our raft excursion. Well, once on site, we started to be told that we would probably not be able to all fit on one bamboo raft as originally told. For safety reason, they highly recommended that I take a separate raft. A bit reluctantly we agreed. Jenny negotiate a reasonable price for the 2nd raft and then we sent off. It’s a bit tricky to walk on those bamboo raft!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Within the first minute of our excursion, we learned that we would be going through a few \u201cobstacles\u201d along our way, nine to be exact. Approaching our first \u201cfall\u201d, I quickly understood why our guide told us to remove our shoes and sock and store them away. I was extremely glad we took separate bamboo raft, as just by myself, my raft plunged deep in the water – almost up to my seat. If the three of us had been on the same bamboo raft, I think we would have been the first bamboo submarine to explore the river!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Needless to say the river excursion was very enjoyable and. thankfully for our hard working raft guides, the weather was much \u201ccooler\u201d than yesterday \u2013 relatively speaking.<\/p>\n\n\n