Up today and plans were made. We ran over to the market to pick up an additional suitcase for me. I’ve got to get all of my shopping purchases home SOMEHOW.
Then first five of us and then an additional five road bikes over to the Moon Hill Water Cave.
These water caves are like nothing you have seen in the States. The geography in this area is the aftermath of ancient seas retreating, leaving these mountain formations and many caves.
The cave tours they do are part normal tour and part going to the spa or the hot springs for a mud bath. We changed into our swimsuits and then were taken inside by boat. Then we walked (in flip-flop shoes) up and down and around and through the cave. It was full of crazy dangerous stores with some railings, some lights and lots of muddy floors.
The one concession to safety was we had to wear construction helmets (which we kept bumping when we ducked under low places in the cave.)
I didn’t bring my camera along because I was worried that it would get dirty, but they took photos of us especially in the mud baths. These were hysterical. It was very dirty and the water quite cold. We ended the trip with a soak in a natural hot water pool. We got out dirty but really refreshed.
In the pool outside there was a whole group of Chinese young boys swimming in their underwear.
We rode back to the hotel, showered and went out for diner.
Tonight Indian food was the food of choice. Very good food. Then our bus to the airport was delayed so we all hung out in the hotel lobby until the bus arrived at 8pm, exchanging info on our various adventures. Some people went kayaking, some went and toured an area with terraced rice fields, others went down the river on whitewater rafts. This whole area is really an outdoors paradise and very, very fun.
We then sat at the airport until we finally got on the airplane to go back to the city we were in before Shenzhen. We said goodbye to the first of our colleague who are now on to Beijing.
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