After some "lull" time in Yangshou it was time to head towards home
It was with a little trepidation that we waited for our 3.30 p.m. car shuttle after it had turned up at 8.00 a,m, that morning where we explained with difficulty that we were in fact leaving in the afternoon !
The journey to Guilin Airport was a long one taking some 90 minutes the highlights being the extent of the wonderful Karst scenery and an expressway that we seemed to start out on the middle of nowhere !
Out flight to Shanghai (2 hours) was uneventful but our taxi ride into the city was not with the driver doing a good impersonation of an F1 driver only slowing for the speed cameras on the overhead gantry's
We finally found our well hidden hotel and set off to get a night time look at the lights on the Bund .
Directions were scarce until one english speaking couple pointed us the wrong way which we quickly realised after walking about 4 kms !!!
Retracing our steps we found the Bund was in fact only about 10 mins from our hotel ! We arrived to view the Bund skyline in darkness as apparently the Chinese have taken energy conservation seriously switching off the Bunds lights at 11p.m. !
We did glimpse though how spectacular the view could have been !
It was back to our hotel via a Chinese "Lolly" shop where Marysia could get her fix of "White Rabbits" and where Henley got a whack over his head for sampling the merchandise !
We collapsed into our freezing air conditioned room and hit the sack about 1.00a.m. a new record for the trip !
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