We started at 6 in the morning on Friday with our personal driver. We arrived in Xidi, the first of the ancient towns of the day, around 7. Light was quite magic, have a look ...

 

 

In Hongcun, the next ancient city, we found a beautiful little village and again amazingly interesting people ...

 

 

There are a lot of art students in the ancient towns, sitting around all over the place drawing and painting ...

 

 

After Hongcun we went to the mountain area of Qiyun Shan. We took the cable car up, walked around for two hours and climbed down again by foot ...

 

 

In the late afternoon we convinced our driver to take us to the last place of the day, Chengkan. It was worth going from a photographers point of view as light couldn't have been better!

 

 

That was a long day and we took the night train at 11 pm with only a seat and no bed to rest, pretty uncomfortable. Oh well ...

 

We are in Pingxiang today and take the night train the evening to Guilin which will arrive there in the early morning. Think we will take a rest in the park now, weather is great.

 

KIKI