Breakfast (or lunch if you like ...) was delicious savoury, crispy pancakes filled with egg, spring onion, 'sauce', some crispy thing, and lettuce from the corner street vendor - ultra yum! Liv's already dreaming about them for breakfast tomorrow!!
We then went to find the Green Lotus Peak to climb - and although we got to see the peak itself from many different vantage points, finding the entrance was another story. We'd walk down one street to be told to walk down another, and then directed back to the last! If the locals didn't know where to go, then we sure didn't either!! What we did achieve on this walk was to take in some great views of the Li River and the orgainsed mess of the (hundreds?) of cruise boats lining the river banks.
We also got Adam's money belt fixed by a lady sitting on the corner of the street with her industrial sewing machine, made a short (but always uplifting) phone call to Liv's home from the pay phone in the rain, and collected a box (to the locals' amusement) from the side of the street to post some unneeded and weighty gear to our soon-to-be home at Shandong University - Adam especially deserves the weight break from his pack!
Dinner was simple - vege dumplings (something we are beginning to love) and scrambled eggs with spring onion - and then a wander of the night markets for our nightly dessert of fruit. Liv got mangoes (though mini-mangoes this time, which are super-sweet - yum) and Adam something that resembles a big light-yellow pear but tastes like a melon.
Back to the hostel for furture adlibing plans ...
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