today chantelle and me just branched off for the first bit of the day. theres this mountain right smack in the middle of the town and on top is a pagoda that we've wanted to walk to. so we get there, and first walked through this creepy park that had these little kid rides and like carnival music. and i dont know if it was the jingles, the kind of shady overcast day or what but it was really creepy. it felt like one of those parks that all of sudden monsters attack you or the statues come to life and try and kill you.. idk. it was creepy. so we walked through creepo park and got to the mountain and we didnt even think of this but of course, more stairs. you know because 826 to moon hill wasnt enough lets do some more. the view from the top was amazing. today was a little clearer so we could see more mountains and we got to see all of yangshuo from the top. it was cool. we could see everywhere we've walked and our hostel. it was neat.
then our big adventure for the day is we went cormorant fishing. its one of the attractions that yangshuo has to offer. you get on a motor boat and follow a fisherman on his bamboo raft on the Li River and he has about 7 cormorant birds that fish. we didnt know how it worked but we soon found out. they are duck like birds that dive into the water and catch the fish but they have ropes tied around their necks tight enough so they dont swallow the fish completely. so when he sees that their necks are thick he pulls them in, or sometimes they even just hop up and he makes them regurgitate them into a basket. its kind of gross but also kind of really awesome at the same time. so we just cruised around watching it. it was really cool.
oh and there were two very good looking french boys on our boat. one lived in hong kong and the other, his name was matthew, was visiting him and they came to yangshuo on vacation. i still cant figure it out but accents get me everytime. (especially the french ones). oh and our boat driver told us that the fisherman was 87 years old. crazy.
other than that we just went marketing some more and just soaked in yangshuo as much as we could.
our bus doesnt leave until 8pm and we check out at noon, but the hostel is nice enough to let us keep our stuff there until we leave so we'll do a little bit more tomorrow.
and then home. we dont teach until the 18th so we still have some vacation. we might go to shengen but we havent decided.
picture commentary: alot of the cormorant pictures are me trying to get them mid dive.
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ive seen the bird fishing on some kind of show on the travel channel i think.... it looked really cool/weird/gross. did you eat the fish after you were done? i would have, i bet they would have tasted really fresh. you have to tell me more about these sleeper busses and why they are so horrible.
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