Olly
Our adventures in China began in a place called Mount Dingu, which is a national park in the province of Guangdong, where our problems with the language barrier truly began. This is Olly posing in the grounds of one of the many temples we went to in the park.

Dan & Olli Eating "Coke"
Now before you all start jumping to conclusions there is a story behind the above caption. On our way back down from the monastery we came across a beautifully-landscaped Chinese garden, so we decided to stop and check it out and ordered some "Coca Cola" to quench our thirst. Unfortunately due to the major language barrier we ended up with some Soya bean substance instead which the guy insisted was Coke. At this point we were too tired to argue with him so we ate it. That was pretty much a re-occurring theme during our time in China, which made it that much more fun.

Amy
For those of you who've read my group e-mail this is Amy, for those of you that haven't Amy found us at a bus station in Wuzhou lost and confused and decided to take it upon herself to become our personal tour guide for the week. In exchange we would help her improve her spoken English (poor girl).  Anyway had she not taken pity on us we would still be at that bus station eating coke!!!

Dan Up A Pole #2
Coaxing him down took a bit of time and effort. Luckily we brought along the cattle prod.

Yangshuo View #3
This was what much of the countryside was like, vast paddy fields of rice with these huge rock formations looming in the background.

Clubbing in Yangshuo
This was quite an amusing night as the resident band at this bar was cleared out and alternative tunes were put on so we could dance, courtesy of our guide. We felt quite bad for the guys until we heard them play.

Bamboo rafting down the Li river
After all the cycling we did we decided to try some other means of transport so we took a river ride down the Li river on bamboo rafts. It was a little bit hair-raising at some points as we had to go down a few rapids. Surprisingly enough, though, the rafts handled them quite well.

Fishing Village #1
We undertook a trip to a small fishing village that had been visited by Bill Clinton during his presidency to see what it was all about. It was very quaint but far too quiet.