Yangshuo Mountain Retreat Blog

Chris Barclay created the Yangshuo Mountain Retreat and Yangshuo Village Inn, but his passion has always been helping others to create new levels of success. Through his corporate training business, ALTEC, Chris has delivered personal leadership courses to over 30,000 executives from leading multinational companies in China and Asia Pacific. His latest program is available to Mountain Retreat and Village Inn guests who want to find powerful new ways to create affluence. Join Chris June 21-23 at the Yangshuo Mountain Retreat.

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Join our Staff Development Coach, Ronald van de Weerd, for this unique opportunity to capture the best images of Yangshuo. Ronald has lived in Yangshuo for years and is an outstanding amateur photographer who knows the hidden valleys and traditional villages of the area. Find out more about our tour on our website and sign up soon to guarantee your place.

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According to The Age, one of Australia’s leading newspapers and online news services, Yangshuuo Mountain Retreat top’s their journalist’s list of the World’s Top 50 Hotels.

In it’s 11th year of operation, the Yangshuo Mountain Retreat has consistently been ranked among the best hotels in China by TripAdvisor. Both the Retreat and its sister hotel, the Yangshuo Village Inn, are currently the #1 hotels in Yangshuo in their respective categories.  The Yangshuo Mountain Retreat was also a finalist in the Virgin Holidays Responsible Tourism Awards.

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Congratulations to Little Fish and the whole Mountain Retreat family for winning TripAdvisor’s 2011 Traveler’s Choice Award, and being named one of the top 25 hotels in China.Mountain Retreat continues to top the TripAdvisor Yangshuo ranking among 122 hotels in the region.

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Birdlovers will find many beautiful birds around our retreat. This Kingfisher sat a few hundred meters upstream from our place and is often spotted bulleting across the river. There is another species of Kingfister around these rivers too. Hope to shoot it one day soon.

Another beautiful bird you can hear chattering in flocks around the Yulong River is the Red-whiskered Bulbul.

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The UK daily paper The Telegraph has come out with a list of the 50 Best Hotels in the World in three budget categories. Yangshuo Mountain Retreat was listed at #6 and was among only 2 hotels in China. We’re very proud of this and are looking forward to a great 2011.http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/hotels/8231621/The-50-best-hotels-in-the-world.html

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Here’s a great article from the Washington Post on rock climbing in Yangshuo. All of the crags mentioned are a short bike ride or walk from Yangshuo Mountain Retreat and the Yangshuo Village Inn. Happy Climbing!http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2010/10/01/ST2010100105083.html?sid=ST2010100105083

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The good people at Green Traveler Guides have written a beautiful article about the Yangshuo Mountain Retreat and Village Inn’s green initiatives. You can view the article here: http://greentravelerguides.com/2010/10/yangshuo-green-lodging/. We’re very proud to be recognized for protecting Yangshuo for future generations, by not using disposable items, particularly plastic bags and plastic bottles. You can also find us listed on Best Eco Lodges http://www.best-ecolodges.com/ecolodges_china.htm, as the only eco-friendly accommodation in China.

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Bart Batsleer who runs the nature photo company, Back to Nature.org, is organizing a special autumn phototour around Guilin from September, 19 to September,25.Bart says: “It will be great as at the beginning of the harvest the Longji rice terraced fields will be `golden` coloured. The big heat will have passed and normally it is pretty dry that time of year, so chances are we`ll get lots of clear sunrises and sunsets over the famous karst peaks around Guilin and Yangshuo.”You can see some of Bart’s amazing photos on the Yangshuo Mountain Retreat website and more about his photo tour www.backtonature.org.cn/English.htm. 

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