The Yangshuo Bike Festival began over a few beers at the end of a research trip. We were staying in a remote village surrounded by Yangshuo’s limestone karsts, talking about one of the problems of organising travel: the best moments…

www.trip.com is the easiest way to book train tickets to and from Yangshuo for those without a Chinese credit card, but there are still some tricks for getting tickets when everything looks sold out.. There is one direct train from…

-the zither performance at our pre-ride G&T-sundowners on the roof our Daxue Homestay over looking the upper Li River. -Daxue’s stunning Guilin mifen breakfast- followed by the mellow riverside ride in and out of the riverine bamboo forests. -Beers in…

9.30 am Saturday Morning – Bike Asia Mechanic Pengsai leads the procession out of town, on a tricycle weighed down by enormous speakers, belting out Kashmir by Led Zeplin. 10.00 – Fire crackers, 30 metres in length are lit to…

His quiety whispery voice is like an overly polite Hobbit. “Thank you so much,” he whispers each time I snap him in a photo. On the Yangshuo Bike Festival ride Farmer Tang was sweep, guiding from behind and rocking out to the tunes that we…

  Great to have Arana Art http://viagrabuynow.com/ on board as our sponsoring artist.  This is a first  sketch of our cycle Dragon – his   scales soon to be  made up from hundreds of bicycles – intricate design details a…

  Big shout out to our Tibetan Nomad friends from Machu, Eastern Tibet / Western Sichuan, now living in Xing Ping. Their festival brief: Bikes and Halloween and delicious food, married together with pumpkins. And djembes. As we turned a…