Photos of the Li River hike

Here some more photos of our hike tour along the Li River:

First, a photo from our hotel on the sourrounding area.  The hotel was sourrounded by mountains, so everyone going to the hotel (which we luckily did by car) or to the river had to pass the mountains first. There seems to be a “village joke”, that everytime an outsider asks “How far is it to the river” the reply will be “Not far, right around the corner”. They also played this joke on us, and after 40 minutes walking we still could see no water.

What we found on the way, though, was an old man taking care of his bees. He told us that he kept the bees there to produce wild-bee honey. We asked him if he would sell us bee-wax to make some candles, but his price was way too expensive (foreigner price).

After finally reaching the river we had some time to refresh ourselves in the cool Li River water and take a raft a bit downstream. We were not the only ones enjoying the cool wet: