Rode bikes 10mins from the village to a river, and took a ride on a bamboo raft. Bikes were thrown on the back of the raft. Beautiful scenery. Karst mountains, mirror-like water, bamboo trees etc. The rafting of course is a touristic operation. Along the river there are anchored rafts with people working on them - they shout out "Hello, Beer?". You can have a beer while your cruising along.
It had been raining and as such there were no other rafts on the river which was nice. The ride was pretty smooth mostly, but there were 4 or 5 small dams which the driver took us over for a bit of a bump. Was fun and got a bit wet.
We had no idea how long the ride was though, and by the time we made our destination it was dark, and we had no idea where we were. There was no service of any kind offering to take us back to where we started. Luckily someone was walking by and I asked him where we were, turned out we werent too far from Yangshuo. So we started riding. Was about a 30min ride and we came to the town of Yangshuo. It has a very busy night life with all the tourists. We had a drink at a cafe then hired a guy with a motor bike with 4 seats in the back for us to stick the bikes on, and we headed back to the village.
Bamboo Rafting - near Aishanmen Village from tgoodwin on Vimeo.
