The muddy waters of the Li River churn in the erratic wind that blows in. The weather is unusually inclement for a summer evening. Dark clouds hover above the pointed ridges of the Karst mountains to ...

West Street, Yangshuo’s main thoroughfare, in fact runs through the east of the town, so perhaps nowadays its name can be more closely associated with the Westerners who put the town on the tourist ...

Somewhere between the strange green and gray limestone peaks jutting out of the plains like misplaced teeth, past the village of 200-year-old yellowing huts, along narrow earthen paths raised between ...

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Better known as Monkey Jane, Lai Zhengxiu began catering to the needs of backpackers following the “banana pancake trail” from Southeast Asia to China’s Guangxi region in 2005, when she opened a ...

Aerial photo taken on July 4, 2020 shows a view of Yangshuo County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Yangshuo is famous for its karst formations and beautiful Lijiang River. (Xinhua/Cao ...

Comment on the topic: "we want to hear from you" Back in the old century the name 'Yangshuo' was the international traveling community's secret for a charming, laid-back and welcoming ...

The latest hotel to catch our eye is this Alila Yangshuo space. Based in Southern China, the retreat was formerly a sugar mill in the 1960s and has now been converted into a hotel that still pays ...

My whole life I've been interested in martial arts. I studied judo as a child, then karate. But it was only when I moved to another city in Belgium where there was a kungfu club, that I really enjoyed ...