So i left 阳朔 for 桂林 so that i can go on to 资源. Coincidentally, i took the same bus as my companions from the previous day. This is 资源, a very beautiful town in my opinion.
The buildings were just at the edge of the river.
I love taking pictures of cable towers.
Sunset.
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.
Initially, my plan was to take a raft down 遇龙河, with a bicycle in tow, and then cycling on to 月亮山 but since i've taken a raft the previous day and it wasn't economical for me alone to take a raft cause a raft can take 2 people, i changed my plan for the day to cycling along 遇龙河. 遇龙河 is a river that runs through the 阳朔 region and some say the view along the river is even better than the Li River.
Nice scenery.
Reflections in the fields. Like how i've mentioned in an earlier post, this was a common sight...
My plan to cycle along the river changed but this somehow along the way cause i lost the way although i was still in the general direction towards 月亮山 but i was pretty happy with myself, cause i was enjoying the ride in the countryside, away from the tourists again. And that's a big U.
Down the neverending road...
I came to this point when i could easily follow the highway to 月亮山 but the fields looked really good. At that point in time, it looked as if there was another world hidden if i went through the fields to the area behind mountains (not seen in this pic), which i did go to explore.
And there was a village over there.
Dangerous bridge.
Buffaloes presumably cooling themselves in the water.
And i found a small factory where people were making fake grapes from styrofoam balls.
So much balls that you can even swim in them.
It was only later that i found out that 月亮山 was one of those jagged mountains in the distance. 
月亮山 at last.
Climbing stairs has never been my forte. It was really tiring to go up to the top.
Mountains everywhere.
Against the moon.
The fields looked really nice from above.
Layers.
自拍.
Armageddon.
Self-entertainment.
I wonder how's the view from the hot air balloon?
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.
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.
