Yangshuo Li River activities - hike or bike?
 

My friend and I have a full day in Yangshuo scheduled in our China trip (wish we had more time!) and are debating two different activities:

1: Rent a bike and ride through the Yulong River valley to Dragon Bridge, then back to Yangshuo (maybe stop at Moon Hill)

2. Bus to Yangdi, then do the 18km Li River hike from Yangdi to Xingping

Has anyone completed any of these itineraries, and do you have a preference?

THanks!

Hi, Gopp,
I did both of them. If you could experience both of them, it is worthy. If you have to choose one, then choose your first option. Biking takes about 3-4 hours, hiking is about 6 hours.
Try it in two days, first day do hiking and second day do biking.
Morgen

It is hard to make decision of the choices even for the locals. If you like hiking please do the second one, if you like biking you can do the frist one. the landscape of li river is nicer than Yulong River.

Both of these sound good and I've read a couple other references to this hike, but tell me -- how hilly is the bike ride (I'm great on flat and downhill, not so much on uphill), and how rugged -- mainly steep -- is the hike?

Oh. I forgot to ask also about the possibility of biking one way and taking the boat back, or hiking one way and taking the boat the other.