More exploring around Yanghsuo, China

We waited out the rain in the morning, and then headed back out to do some more exploring. We didn't have a lot of success though! We tried to find a hiking trail, and when we did there was a sign at the entrance saying there had been a landslide and it was closed. 

Then we went to a cave that was open to the public, but it was so commercialized (with colored lights etc.) that we didn't think we would enjoy it for the price.

Here's our typical Chinese guesthouse breakfast...

A big bowl of rice noodles with peanuts, peppers, mushrooms, chives, onion.

And on the plate, a hard boiled egg, some kind of muffin thing that looks like a marshmallow, another one with some kind of sweet filling, and a savory sticky rice thing with meat inside.

It's actually not bad... until you have to have it every single day!

We took a few back roads just to see where they led.

There were five of these buildings exactly the same with just the unfished concrete structure. They had obviously been sitting like that a long time. I made the comment that it would have made more sense to actually finish one of them before starting the next. Of course there's some kind of story that we don't know the details behind. But there are a lot of these stories in this area.

These are a type of fruit. They're a little smaller than a walnut, and have a hard shell almost like a nut, but a soft gelatinous fruit inside with a big seed. Very different.

More unfinished buildings.

Growing something. And at the far end is a cave, but not accessible.

We went back to see if the water had receded, and it has. You can see the debris on the road that shows how high it had been at one point.

But unfortunately we don't see them having the boats running again before we leave. 

Tuesday.

Approximately the same spot on Monday!

Yet another Chinese motorhome.

We stopped in at this fancy resort to see the prices on their lunch menu, but they were too pricey!

Instead we ended up sharing two dishes... stir fried cauliflower, and braised pork.

Scenery on our walk back to the guest house.

There are a lot of places that do rental scooters, but they are slightly different than the ones that you see clogging the streets in Vietnam or Cambodia. These ones are almost all electric, and they have very limited speeds... maximum 25 km/h (15 mph), and normally much slower. And they have dedicated lanes on the main streets, so the risk is very low. Nobody wears a helmet when using them because you're not going very fast. Our guest house also has them for rent and so we enquired about them. Turns out you rent them by the day... 30 yuan ($6.25 CAD, $4.40 USD) per day. So we're going to do that either Thursday or Friday depending on which looks like the better weather day. It will give us a chance to see some things a little further away.

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