Saying Goodbye

From July 2, 2014:

The feng shui must have been great at the Mountain Retreat Hotel in Yangshuo.  We had the best night's sleep so far. We woke refreshed and ready for more adventures.

On our way back to Guilin, we stopped at a 300 year old farmer's house.  An elderly farmer lives there with his wife and sister in law. Their children and grandchildren moved to the city and visit on the weekend. Our guide told us that most young people prefer living in cities today.The farmer told us that he practices kung fu.  His wife showed us how to grind soybeans into soy milk and how to pump water from a well. 

We then drove back to the Bravo Hotel in Guilin where it was time to say goodbye to our friends.  We have had such a great time together that it was really hard to leave them.  But we plan to keep in touch and hopefully get together occasionally.

Our local guide, Cherry,  dropped us off at the train station, and we were on our own in China. Taking the bullet train from Guilin to Changsha without a Chinese guide was quite a challenge so we were really happy to find our new guide, Wendy, waiting for us when we arrived.