From Hong Kong, we took the subway to the Chinese border and boarded a “sleeper bus” for Guilin, China. The sleeper bus consisted of about 15 sets of bunk beds bolted into the ground. I was on the top bunk, which was just barely too short for my 5 feet 10 inches. I tried sleeping on my side, curled up, but the bus jarred in and out of traffic (honking EACH time we passed someone) all night long. This jarring kept rolling me around while I was on my side, so I had to sleep flat on my back, legs bent like a frog in order to avoid the rolling and get some semblance of sleep.

Once we arrived in Guilin, we took the next bus about an hour south to a small town called Yangshuo. The pictures below are all from our 4 days there. We had a relaxing time, enjoyed great food (we must confess that we ate quite a bit of Thai food here), and held a sacrament meeting in our hotel room on Sunday since there’s no church in the area.

The pictures below are from a boat trip we took, floating on a bamboo raft down the Li River.

View from the boat.

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