Yangshuo

 Brothers

 

 Li River

 

 Qingping

Particularly bad toilet 

 Yulong River bamboo raft trip

 

My awesome birthday bike ride included getting lost at no extra charge! 

 

 Our ride back across the river with bikes

Family saying goodbye 

Guilin

 A trip to an ethnic village

Rice terraces 

 

 

 

 

 A park with monkeys!

Which the boys loved.... 

 A curious kiddy attraction

Feeding fish with a baby bottle - which they also loved! 

 Overnight train

Beautiful Lijiang

 Bridges and waterways

 

 

Elias' mule 

 

 If it's in english, it doesn't have to make sense!

 

One of Kellen's favorite hostels 

 Courtyard outside our room

 

Mud brick house, hay in loft, SUV, check, check, check 

 Ubiquitous Tsingtao beer

Richard made fast friends with Kellen 

Shangri-La

 Streets of Shangri-La

Buddhist temple 

 Giant prayer wheel

Buddhist monastery 

 Elias not thrilled with the attention he's getting.....

Boys in the tent 

 View from top of hill over Shangri-La

Out checking on the yaks 

 

 Our guide

 

 Care for some meat?  It's only been hanging here all day.....

Yak-butter tea