{"id":167,"date":"2008-06-10T00:15:20","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T13:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/10\/how-highs-the-water-momma\/"},"modified":"2008-06-17T00:18:16","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T13:18:16","slug":"how-highs-the-water-momma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/10\/how-highs-the-water-momma\/","title":{"rendered":"How High’s The Water, Momma?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wake up to the familiar sound of rain.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s my last day in Yangshuo, so I head out and grab some breakfast, and upload some pictures.\u00c2\u00a0 Wonder of wonders, at about 11am, it stops raining.\u00c2\u00a0 I stare at the cafe owners in disbelief, but it appears to be true.<\/p>\n\"IMG_8446\"\n

I still have to check out, so I head back to the guesthouse, checkout, and confirm my bus for the evening.\u00c2\u00a0 As it turns out my bus is leaving at 6:40pm, instead of 8, so my hours are limited.\u00c2\u00a0 I head over and talk to Christine for a bit, but she gets busy with a customer, so I wander off – running unexpectedly into the Irish lads from Dali, Alan and Wolfey, and their new companion Wade.\u00c2\u00a0 Aidan is still in Yunnan province, but is apparently on his way.<\/p>\n

The boys need a guesthouse, so I show them to Backstreets, and they check in there.\u00c2\u00a0 They’re having lunch shortly, so I tag along.\u00c2\u00a0 After lunch they want to do some shopping, so I join them on that too – then they try and arrange for something to do in the evening.\u00c2\u00a0 Unfortunately there’s been so much rain, that they’re unable to do anything on the water – all the touts that usually try selling boat rides, have nothing to do for the next couple of days.\u00c2\u00a0 I show them some before and after photos of the river, whose banks are now completely flooded.\u00c2\u00a0 Here is a before\/after look:<\/p>\n

Before:<\/p>\n\"IMG_8432\"\n

After:<\/p>\n\"IMG_8447\"\n

(Note: I talked to Alan a few days later and they had to evacuate, because the town itself flooded)<\/p>\n

They manage to book some rock climbing, and we do a bit more wandering.\u00c2\u00a0 Before long it’s time for me to head back to the guesthouse, so I do – and have a bit of a struggle to get my key deposit back, but finally manage.\u00c2\u00a0 This has definitely not been my nicest guesthouse experience, but at least I still have my bag and contents at the end of it all.<\/p>\n

I hop on the sleeper bus at nearly 7pm, and settle in for the long haul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wake up to the familiar sound of rain.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s my last day in Yangshuo, so I head out and grab some breakfast, and upload some pictures.\u00c2\u00a0 Wonder of wonders, at about 11am, it stops raining.\u00c2\u00a0 I stare at the cafe owners in disbelief, but it appears to be true. I still have to check out, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,55],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elyk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}