船上的游客迎来的是数以百计的农民,农民们迫不及待地想把他们的东西卖给外国人赚点钱。以前,游船在一个叫阳朔的小镇停靠。但因为该处通桂林的大道情况日趋变坏,这条汽车路线已经中断。
At 8:30 a.m., the tourists boarded two pleasure ships and enjoyed a delightful1 tour of the winding2 Lijiang River for five hours. The ships sailed about 25 kilometers in the 80-km-long river,then returned and were anchored in a small village Yangdi at the foot of the two hills .
The tourists on the ships were greeted by hundreds of the peasants, and the latter lost no time in selling their goods to foreign tourists and earning some money. Formerly3 the pleasure ships were anchored in a small town Yangshuo. But because the road from the town to Guilin was in increasingly worse condition, the automobile4 route was suspended.