There are also a few things not usually available elsewhere:

Postcards and picture books of the area, in stores or hawked by older women on the street
Chinese paintings of the local Karst scenery
T-shirts with Chinese characters with different slogans, such as "I have no money" or "Foreigner coming, Foreigner going"
Hard Rock Cafe T-shirts are common, but there is no Hard Rock in Yangshuo
Some places with great names — Red Capitalism Cafe, Outside Inn, Fawlty Towers — do not have T-shirts, unfortunately
Silver and embroidery pieces by local minorities.
Prices for large pieces are high, but some pieces may be worth them.
Small pieces, such as embroided Zhuang minority love balls, are also available
You should also bargain on these, of course.

Other interesting things
On Die Cui Lu about half a block from the river is Nature House selling various rocks. Some are interesting geological specimens; others are carved and/or painted. Fascinating.

By plane
Yangshuo has no airport. The nearest airport is in Guilin. As yet, there are no direct buses from the airport to Yangshuo. There is an airport bus you can take into Guilin and then take a bus or boat to Yangshuo.

By train
Yangshuo is not served by train and the nearest railway station is Guilin. Minibuses to Yangshuo conveniently depart from the square in front of Guilin railway station. For bus connections, see below.

By bus
From Guilin: There are frequent minibuses and express buses to Yangshuo from Guilin. All buses terminate at the bus terminal in Yangshuo. Minibuses cost (RMB 15. Buy tickets on the bus) depart from the square in front of the Guilin railway station. The journey takes between one and one-and-a-half hours as buses stop along the way. Express buses (RMB 15. Buy tickets from counter inside terminal) depart every half hour from the Guilin bus terminal off Zhongshan Zhong Lu and take just an hour.

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Ten years gone, the Dong village Zhaoxing is still sitting in foot of mountains like ten years before, except that some new wood houses are built and some bars and shop appear. Of course the time ploughs the furrows on forehead of parents in the village and blows the children and the village bigger and bigger. But the Zhaoxing is still look like ten year before. The five drum towers and roofed bridges still stand on the brooks and are colorful like before. In the sunshine, the old men lean on the pillar of roofed bridge with smoking tobacco pipe. Some of them are playing a kind of local chess; some chatting and some are taking a nap on the bench attached on the pillar. The old ladies, in costume and with glasses, are doing their embroidery in front of her house. When some guests pass by, they greet them by elusive dialect. Children are chasing each other around the house. All things are in peace.



At long interval the sounds of Lusheng pipe (a kind of instrument) come out from somewhere and break the peace. Wandering on the stone-paved street of the village, few chickens are looking something for eating around the vegetable and food stall. Both side of the street are the shops, shopkeepers are sitting in a chair leisurely some of then even fall asleep! There are many shops sell the handicraft of minorities includes handmade cloth, embroidery piece, exotic silver ornament, minorities costume and so on. As dark coming, the cooking smoke rise up and cover the village, the village wake again. The sound of calling children back for dinner echoes in the village. The buffalos moo, the dogs bark here and there. The moon bring the quite night soon. In the house the Lusheng pipe send out of melody and polyphonic singing fly over from the village sometime. On the side of the village, rice field twinkling the moon light. Crickets are singing their romantic madrigal. And the village fall asleep gradually again.

i have been to yangshuo in Guilin this year.yangshuo scenery is so beautiful and encharm.nearly forgot came back,expecially Yulong River.i stayed a family hotel--pingan/peace hotel is very chinese traditional folk place.the ancient dest,the old film machine and caving things.interesting hotel to enjoy.i have forgotten the hotel telephone,just left the E-mail address is; yahoo.com.if|ansnaw you like you can try.one more thing the boss a good tour guider he can show you to every place in yangshuo.he can speak flutly English and knew much china and the world.in a word he is an excellent tour guider.his mobilephone Num is ;0086-13878372314.email;yahoo.com.cn.added|xiaoan710 the hotel pics wish you like.really very morden very China.

Yangshuo pingan fanily hotel is the oldest family hotel in Yang shuo since in 1982.the ancient furniture and the chinese traditioal wooden beds,the coloured board,pen continer,dragon cares.....
the boss can speak English very well and also he is an excellent Guider with legal certificate!
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enjoy your Yangshuo tour.