Day 5 - 16 Apr, Thursday: 阳朔

I was reading this travel book that me, Junyuan and Pika shared and we cut the book up so that we can share it when we went our separate ways. So anyway, the author was highly recommending this place called 世外桃源 in 阳朔, which i've visited that morning. Utter regret. Cause the whole place was a place with a lot of packaged tourists and actually nothing much to see. Though at some places, the scenery was rather nice but that was actually a common sight everywhere in 阳朔.

Musicians playing this instrument called 天琴. I was more intrigued by the bells tied to their toes which they were playing as accompaniment to the music they were playing in their hands.

The nice scenery in the place.
So in the afternoon, i've decided to tour the lower Li River (漓江下流). Most tourists tour the upper Li River when they arrive from Guilin to Yangshuo. And i believe i was coned by this tour guide who acted as a middleman between the boat agent and me. No point elaborating on it. Haha. But after thinking about it again, i thought the money spent was actually worth it cause i really did enjoy the tour of the river.

After setting off from the pier on a motor-operated raft with a boatman on it only.

Water buffaloes.
There were very few tourists in this part of the river which i'm glad of.
I took lots of these reflection-pics.


And after the 1+ hour raft ride, i've reached this village called 留公村. A nice and quiet place with buildings that has existed since the Qing Dynasty. There was this villager who was pregnant who even brought me to see a temple and a cave. Feel very paiseh about that but she kinda insisted.
Buildings that have seen the age. 

A flock of ducks in the water taken on the return journey from the village.
Layers of mountains. 
I took lots of pictures on this raft trip cause the scenery was really nice and i had the "city boy" syndrome, just like on the boat trip to Muang Ngoi. It's as if i've never seen mountains in my life before.
There was some sort of a pier over there with a watchtower.
The sun was setting...


The stage for《印象。刘三姐》"Impressions . Liu San Jie", which i caught later on in the night. It was directed by a team made up of Zhang Yimou and two other directors whose names i'm not sure of.

Red ribbons stretched over the water, which the actors used to move across the water on rafts.
Very Zhang Yimou-style. Look at the amount of people involved. Human lights.
West street, the tourist street of 阳朔.