Friday, January 5, 2018

China 26th December 2017 to 1st January 2018 - Day 2 - Part 1

Day 2 - Part 1 - In view of the large number of photos, the afternoon part will be in Part 2.

After breakfast it was a trip to to Guilin Shangri-la or "Shi Wai Tao Yuan" in Chinese, a typical countryside native village. 


Village entrance

Inside the village
Nice View
Going for a boat ride
Welcoming committee
Our Guide
Village Square 
A shallow cave
Going into a deeper cave

Inside the cave

Cave exit

Forever blooming cherry blossom.

Native dancing

Err ....
End of cruise


Vegetables plots

Back into the village
For the album.

Welcome drink - rice wine ...yum!!!
Village square
Ethnic Musician,

Natives!?! 
Grain Storage

Water wheel - irrigation

Pleasant scenic walk

Activity Hall - Drying Corns, Chilies and Garlic


Weaving

Intricate carving from a trunk and totem poles. Yes the Chinese do it too!
Rice wine brewing.

Wood pulp grinder


Making paper

Paper press.

Printing

Printing Tablets

Final Result.
Stone are also their interest.


All sorts of shape and size

LV!?!

Colourful Stones

Calligrapher

Samples of what he can do for a fee.

 Stone Carving for sale

Wood Carving for sale

Stone / wood carving

Costume Jewellery 

Stone carving

Trinkets

Moulded stone like piglets

Products from buffalo horns.


Combs, shoe horn, spoon and some other things




Bacon, pork belly, trotters and sausages made of stone.

The morning session of the tour end here and next stop is for lunch.

Scooter with umbrella

Chinese sausage, this is real.

A truck with exposed engine ... DIY?

Next after lunch we will be heading to the Guilin Li River.

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