Tuesday, 18 March 2008

Silver Cave, Yangshuo



My plan for my last full day in Yangshuo was to go on a cycling tour in the countryside surrounding the town. Unfortunately, it was raining quite heavily and I did not fancy the idea of getting that wet. My guide advised that the best dry option was to do a tour of the nearby Silver Cave, another of the limestone caves dotted around the region, and similar to the one I had already visited at Yiling, although considerably larger. I decided to take this advice and so ended up doing yet another cave tour, this time with a much bigger crowd of people. The formula was much the same as Yiling, but the overall scale was certainly more impressive.

In the evening I ate at the best Chinese restaurant in Yangshuo, which features a cookery school and a very varied menu of local specialities. I drew the line at dog stew, but went for pig’s trotter soup followed by duck and local river shrimp. Very tasty indeed.

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