day 135, Yangshuo

Woke up early to meet james who would show me where to rent the scooter from, he went off to school and I rode it around, it bloody went which was fab, and the day was cracking and was amazing to see the Karsts (limestone peaks) in all clarity. I rode for a while to nine horse fresco spot which was awesome, an amazing view point over the river, then went down a shit road which was quite fun to check out the white water ‘drifting’ they do down there, first person I see is a bloke in a saints shirt, called Jim and living in Hong Kong teaching. Rode back up and back up to the viewpoint, where I had a bit of a Jay from the inbetweeners crash on my moped, where I attempted a ‘u’ turn facing down a hill and lost a bit of control and ended up straddling a sign/statue which had writing on with the bike reared up on the back wheel, and luckily enough a Spanish couple were there who helped me, thankfully no damage done to the bike. Rode back to town and met James, had a spot of lunch before and rode to Xingping which was cool, had a drink and returned, saw some amazing things on the ride. Gave me scooter back, said thanks and goodbye to James and went back to the hostel to phone me mum and attempt me dad, but he was out. Started speaking to a aussie girl called Ella-Louise, she was travelling by herself but had met people and were going out for dinner, so was going with them though had a show at 8 so missed it, got some dinner meself and went to the show. It was a show on the river involving 600 people done by the bloke who done the Olympic opening ceremony, and was very cool though very boring in parts and the crowd pissed me off, talked through the whole thing then everyone left 10 mins early, baffled me. After that went up to a bar where the people going out for dinner were, had a quick chat then went off as were knackered, then ran into a aussie/swede couple who were in the same hostel in xingping, caught up a bit then off to bed.