The deflating intertube

So made friends with my suite mate at the hostel in Yangshuo and we decided to go down the Li River by intertube. A lot of guessing and walking around later, we came to the conclusion that there was no person renting out intertubes so we bought one at a store. Was 15RMB. We took off for the river and started floating. The river near Yangshuo is actually fairly slow. We had to use our shoes to paddle down the river. We saw some ducks and a fair amount of trash. And right we were about to get to faster flowing part of the river, my intertube started sputtering. It was a hole that would deflate our planned journey to the city of Fuli.

After that bump in our journey. We took a motorcycle back to town. We went our separate ways. I rented a bike out to Moon Hill and it was really fun. The scenery is perfect as always in this area. The climb was fairly exhausting up Moon Hill. Every climber has an old woman following them. I thought they were like ghosts following you. I actually tried to ditch mine by going faster (I know :P Not very nice). But you get tired and they are slowly but surely catching up to you. They want to sell you water, soft drinks, and postcards. I was reminded of Bubble Bobble and the white whale that chases you if you are too slow.

Yangshuo has this tiny slushie stand that serves the best passion fruit slushie I had. They used actual passion fruit... preserves. A little better than the concentrate syrups. It is so refreshing on a hot summer day.

I am so physically tired that I just want to rest for a day but I can do that on the train and at Kunming airport. This is all warmup for Tiger Leaping Gorge. Gorge; I am afraid of you but I am getting prepared!!!

EDIT: The slushie stand is close to Global Cafe. On the cross street that intersects West Street closer to the Li River. Alas, the girl who've I kind of gotten to know says she is selling the place. So get there quickly! Don't know if the management will stay the same.