Another day cycling. We’re really enjoying being out in the countryside away from most tourists. Each day we talk to the staff at the hotel and they help us sort out the route that we’ve chosen. Today we started at a village we’d missed yesterday, a couple of km’s up the road. It was a Ming Dynasty Village, probably a lot less Ming than Coleford! It was interesting to watch a man spreading out rice to dry in his front yard with a wooden rake. Also saw a couple of blokes up to their thighs in mud catching fish from ponds. They had scales, weighed them and sold them. Very fresh!
From here we returned towards our hotel, but crossed the river and cycled through farm land and villages. We reckon we’ve cycled 20km today, a lot of it on unmade roads. Bit of a massage, and the bottom was glad to get back!
We lunched at Moon Hill Cafe on steamed mushroom and Pak choy with rice, then cycled back.
Taking the shuttle bus into Yangshou at 5pm to have a beer, wander and probably stay for dinner
