yin and yang

Chinese culture emphasizes balancing forces, yin and yang if you will.
The hot pot restaurant that was near me gives you ice cream at the
end to balance the hot of the food you prepare at the table in the
boiling water. Yangshuo must be the yin to Beijing's yang for me. It
is the ice cream dessert after a long meal you cooked yourself.

Beijing inside all day; Yangshuo outside all day
Beijing horrified by how many hours the MSRA interns work; Yangshuo
horrified by the accident aftermath I saw, with fatalities.
Seriously, horrifying. I couldn't figure out why no one was hovering
over the man lying on the street and trying to help him when there had
clearly been an accident. Then, I knew. It was chilling.
In Beijing it takes me as long to get to the area of the city where we
played trivia as it takes to get from central Beijing to the next town
of 10 million plus. Yangshuo, biking city.
Beijing, mountains of recycling in carts pulled by bikers, written
about by American bloggers. Yangshuo, mounds of rock structures,
written about by Chinese poets. (can only be described in
pictures...check out google images of Guilin.)
Beijing, car taxis. Yangshuo, motorcycle taxis. And evidently the
horrifying incident wasn't horrible enough because I like the wind in
my ears :(.
Beijing, corporate ladder climbing. Yangshuo, rock climbing.
Beijing, hotel that makes me change rooms in the middle of the night.
Yangshuo, hostel that picks me up from the bus station and feeds me
delicious food.
Beijing river of people, Yangshuo Li River.
Beijing signature dish: Peking duck. Yangshuo: beer fish.
Beijing, carcasses carried on the road. Yangshuo, live squawking
ducks and roosters carried upside down by their legs.
Beijing, I could not speak the Chinese. Yangshuo, I still cannot
speak the Chinese.