The route, for GPS details please ask Tom.

The idea to bike around in china actually rise already in Beijing when we  that it is possible and bikes are rather cheap in china. However we could not really find a good solution to transport our bags and we already doubt it to be a good idea when we felt the heat in Guilin. So we settled on renting to bikes take a day pack and ride the 65 km along the Li river to Yangshuo. The evening before we tried to find a good description if the trail. The possibility that we found in our navigation app was indeed 92 km long. But hey still doable away from the big road, decently close to the river and we could still take the bamboo boat back.

And suddenly there was a biking highway in the middle of nowhere.

Yeah sometimes expectations are quite high. Half of the time travel busses were taking up almost all space on the road covering us and our lungs in dust. We were most of the time far away from the river though it was idyllic anyway. We were climbing exhausting hills than just biking relaxing on the shores (my butt really hurt after half a day). When we arrived in Yangshuo they explained us that rules where just changed and there was no bamboo boat going back (tried unsuccessful anyway). The route in our navi did not worked out either, roads were rather tiny paths to small for the bikes and just ending in the water without any bridge.

We were lucky to get a water cab, when the road suddenly ended in the river. Including a very wet butt.

Finally after almost two days unbearable heat it started raining and we arrived completely drowned and dirty back in Guilin.

Just a little wet and a little dirty.

But there also where the time points when we suddenly found us on a broad asphalt road riding through beautiful valleys without any cars, pomelos and madarines growing next to the road, and many friendly people greeting us along the way. Pretty fun trip, but we skip the biking in china for this time anyway.

Here they are. Pomelo, really growing on trees and not bred by a crazy chemist in a lab.