Yangshuo pt 2

I split up from the Norwegians in Xi An. They went to Beijing and
returned to Yangshuo. They were planning on going there for their last
stop, so I just went straight there. It was raining cats and dogs. I
walked down the street and saw A Jia, the climbing guide, walk out of
Karst Cafe and see me walking up from 20 yards away and he was like
"what?". So yeah, people were happy to see me, we went climbing etc.

Things hadn't really changed, one night there was some excitement when
3 drunk big Europeans started a fight at a bar with some Chinese
people. This one huge Dutch guy ended up getting hit in the face with
a chair, not too bad though. Completely his fault because they left
the bar and the situation was resolved, but he came back 5 minutes
later with that shoulder swinging walk that says I mean business. But
the Chinese vastly outnumbered them like they tend to do in the world
so they were kicked out. The Europeans continued to gloat at Karst
Cafe where we were hanging out and it was annoying.

I celebrated my birthday with the Norwegians, 2 Mexicans that I met
there, and this Chinese female teacher from the Wisdom Girls' English
school. She brought me a sweet birthday cake shaped like a Tiger,
since I'm born in the year of the Tiger. So that was a fun night.

One day while buying cheap outdoor camping gear at a going out of
business sale, 3 girls invited me to go camping with them and
ChinaClimb. ChinaClimb is the foreigner run climbing outfit. Most of
their staff had gone to Beijing for some event, so the boss was like,
close the shop, we're going camping. I was actually in the China Climb
office being shown climbing shoes, and he walked in and said, "are you
going on our rainy trek too?". So I decided it would be fun. We were
going in search of some huge cave that also had this big arch that
connected to mountains. Hard to explain. One of their friends had been
there years before, but no one knew exactly how to get there. So I
decided to go, and next morning we left. We rode minibuses there, and
actually found it. We had to walk a ways and cross a few rivers, which
was fun. I had to carry some girls across because they didn't want to
soak their shoes and I had Tevas. I did that until the boss was like,
"let them do it themselves, they all want to be climbing guides, and
to do that, they have to learn that sometimes you have to get your
feet wet."

So camping was fun, really muddy, we climbed up some extremely steep
slopes with loose rocks which was good times. I didnt take my camera,
so we'll see if I can get any pictures from them.

I came back and flew back to Beijing on Saturday morning. I decided to
drop the extra dough on a plane ticket since it would give me some
extra time.