The muddy waters of the Li River churn in the erratic wind that blows in. The weather is unusually inclement for a summer evening. Dark clouds hover above the pointed ridges of the Karst mountains to ...

Better known as Monkey Jane, Lai Zhengxiu began catering to the needs of backpackers following the “banana pancake trail” from Southeast Asia to China’s Guangxi region in 2005, when she opened a ...

Yangshuo Climbing Festival Day 3: Steady Drizzle. The morning's scheduled outdoor climbing workshopswere moved to the Yangshuo Kungfu Training Centre. I biked over around 9:30 a.m. to watch Alex ...

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Aerial photo taken on July 4, 2020 shows a view of Yangshuo County, south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Yangshuo is famous for its karst formations and beautiful Lijiang River. (Xinhua/Cao ...

The latest hotel to catch our eye is this Alila Yangshuo space. Based in Southern China, the retreat was formerly a sugar mill in the 1960s and has now been converted into a hotel that still pays ...

Comment on the topic: "we want to hear from you" Back in the old century the name 'Yangshuo' was the international traveling community's secret for a charming, laid-back and welcoming ...

West Street, Yangshuo’s main thoroughfare, in fact runs through the east of the town, so perhaps nowadays its name can be more closely associated with the Westerners who put the town on the tourist ...

My whole life I've been interested in martial arts. I studied judo as a child, then karate. But it was only when I moved to another city in Belgium where there was a kungfu club, that I really enjoyed ...

Mike Ives here — a freelance writer based in Hanoi, Vietnam. For the next few days, I'll be filing dispatches from the second-annual Yangshuo Climbing Festival in Yangshuo, China. If my aching fingers ...