Cycling along the paddy fields

Morning on Saturday and I'm meeting up with Edward, this Irish dude who's come overland across Siberia and been riding the grasslands in Mongolia who I met the night before having dinner at Drifters in XiJie and we stayed up until 2am drinking beer and swapping stories abou life. So Ed and I go off to have some chinese breakfast: doujiang & youtiao (Hot soy milk with fried pastry and sugar) at one of the small stalls that line up the main street of Yangshuo. We then set off with two montain bikes from the hostel where I'm staying to go and see Moonhill Mountain, which is kind of like one of the many jagged peaks that line the landscape around this town but this one has a hole like a doughnut in the middle of it. Here is a photo of me cycling though the country on the right.


Anyway so we meet these two Danish girls Ira and Anya at the top of the mountain taking photos of the scenery and then we all set off to find an alternative pathway back to Yangshuo but going via the villages and paddy fields as opposed to using the main road. Up on the left is me taking a photo of Anya, Edward and Ira getting lost on the way (as you do).. And if you are wondering why the girls are both wearing crowns of flowers - its quite a normal thing to be backpacking and meet smiling girls wearing flowers on their heads. Its all just part of the adventure.

Here is a photo of us once we eventually found our way across the paddy fields and managed to make it back to the main road.