Golden Week in Yangshuo, China

There are two "Golden Weeks" in the mainland of the People's Republic of China.  They are national holidays where ALL of China has those days off.

In 2010 we stayed in Beijing and enjoyed the lovely weather and were tourists in our new city.  In 2011 we went to Halong Bay in Vietnam and Angkor Wat in Cambodia.  This year we were even MORE adventurous.  We decided to travel IN China with a hundred million plus Chinese!   This had the potential to go very wrong....

We had two hours of sitting in HORRIBLE traffic one night but that was the only blemish on a wonderful week.  It could have been like this...

or this....

but thankfully it was like this....