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The afternoon&#8217;s activity also included large volumes of water as we set to a river on bamboo style rafts. The locals were of course delighted to sell us raincoats!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/randomwire\/2978153026\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1702\" class=\"wp-image-68898\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_7925-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_7925\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>With light rain still falling a mist surrounded the mountains creating quite a mysterious and strangely eerie atmosphere. That said my colleagues were not dampened by the weather and broke out into bouts of song along the way &#8211; I guess you could call it &#8220;<a title=\"Team building\" rel=\"wikipedia\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Team_building\">team building<\/a>&#8220;!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/randomwire\/2978153526\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1702\" class=\"wp-image-68378\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_7933-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_7933\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And so that just about concluded our trip and it was time for a quick dinner of extremely spicy noodles from a dubiously (un)clean looking restaurant before being packed into the bus for the bumpy ride home through the night. Yangshuo is a truly beautiful part of China however I recommend nobody go by bus if you&#8217;re travelling some distance to get there &#8211; your wallet will forgive you for taking a plane believe me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our second day in Yangshuo greeted us with rain aplenty and for those who opted in (yours truly included) a chance to get soaked on a long morning bicycle trip along wide roads enjoying the surrounding vista (while trying not to fall off holding an umbrella in one hand!). 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