Day 7 - 18 Apr, Saturday: 阳朔

The plan for that day was to hike along this stretch of the Li River, that was supposed to be most beautiful. This is West Street in the morning. It rained rather heavily that morning, so the ground was wet. 

A pic taken at the beginning of the hike.
Lee Hom is everywhere in China cause he's the spokesperson of Wahaha mineral water, which should be the biggest brand here. When i came to China with DHSCO in 2000, which is like nearly 10 years ago, Lee Hom was already Wahaha's spokesperson. I was rather surprised when i realised that he still is.
Big boats were carrying tourists from Guilin along the river.
I feel that the mountains along this stretch of the Li River were bigger than those along the lower stretch, where i toured previously. It remained cloudy the rest of the day and it was really windy when i took the raft.
When hiking along the river, i met this 2 other hikers who were working in Guangdong province, one in Guangzhou and one in Shenzhen. They were just one, two years older than me, so we kind of clicked and became companions for the rest of the day. Somewhere through the hike, i met up with two of their friends and we had lunch together.
This was the the exact view of the logo of a popular cigarette brand in Guangxi, 甲天下.
I was wearing sandals, so i could walked across easily with enough time for me to take this pic. The girl in the pic is a reporter from Shenzhen, who's also one of my companion hikers.
We came across this field that looked very nice. So nice that i felt like lying on it.
Would you believe me if i say that this is a pic of the reflections of mountains in the water?
While lazing around, this local villager came over and sold us oranges and pendants that she has manually sanded from stones found along the river. It was hard not to buy something from her after hearing about their daily lives.
That's 九马画山 cause there are supposed to be nine horses on the face of the cliff. I can barely make out one. We were going to the pier to meet up with two other companions so that we can take the raft across the river. The two of them whom we had lunch with were taking the raft route. The hike required us to cross the river three times and the fares for the previous two times were inclusive with the ticket but not the third.
The view of the back of the 20yuan note.
We ended up at 兴坪村 at the end of the hike and this's a pic of a wall.
Night at West Street again. I was trying to take a pic of this huge dog but my hands were not stable enough. It seemed very common for the locals to own big dogs. I've seen quite a few those few days.