Yongshou

Unexpected beauty and magnificent part of the world, driving through the road from Guilin to Yangshou is unique scenary. This pointy calcareous mountains that extend for miles are really astonishing.
Our retreat overlooking the Li river and the mountains, it feels as being part of a chinese ink drawing!
We have a little beach on the bank of the river, the water is warm and the kids have tons of fun.
We discovered the river by boat, kayak and rafting. We walk up to Moon montain to see it from above. On the kayak trip it is only us and the water buffalos, who might looking at us a little too close. In this part of the country it is still possible to discover some little old chinese village, it is refreshing after so much modernity. In this country that is in full speed there is still the young boy who is patiently learning to paint the repetitive mountain theme, and the old lady who hangs by her TV the poster of Mao or Den Xiaoping. You can peep on people's houses:  there are a couple of big rooms with multiple functions and a backyard which is also multi- functions. People seems smiling but direct and they argue a lot with each other but it seems more a way of comunication than a real argument. We end up learning the word for twins (shambotee), that create a lot of debate because the are twins but not the same hair color. 
Last night we went to see this light show, coreographed by the guy who did the olympic coreography. it was pretty spectacular to say the list, there were 600 actors...chinese scale!
As the lonely planet says: it is the must-see place in China!