Village hopping time and we start our day at 7am bashing through the country side around Huizhou Villages, which is so picturesque that hordes of art students pave the streets making sketches of the alleyways and the rivers running alongside the paths. In total we visit two of the villages and walk around past cows wading in streams and horses tied up in forested areas, up to a pagoda perched on a hill where we can see over one of the villages and meet a couple from Holland who have been traveling around China. One thing that strikes me, is how everybody can speak amazing English. Everyone I have met in Hostels, whether they are from Denmark, Holland, France, Italy, Germany, Chile, they all speak amazing English and when you have a Chilean, a German and a Brit in the room as we had in Xi'an, the default language of communication is English, as it's the only way they can communicate with each other. To check into their hostels and hotels they all have to speak English, which isn't even the first language of the country they are in, but it's the only common ground. I'm so impressed by it and feel so inadequate that I all I can do is hazard a guess at some passable french if I am pushed to.
When we get back to the hostel we book our bus to Huang Shan mountain leaving at 6am the next morning, this time round however it's a tourist mountain and isn't that dangerous. We will take the cable up, hike around the summit area for a couple of hours and then walk back down what is labeled as China's most beautiful peak.
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