Friday, March 3, 2017

Report #59 Guilin, China February 28, 2017 Tuesday Drizzle and still cool Part #3 Of 3 87 Pictures

Getting towards the end of the ride……..


Less greenery here

Until we came upon farms

The yellow blooms are from the rape seed plants

Villages along the river

What a picture

Might be Green Lotus Peak

A place for cormorant displays

A spot closer to the end of the river tour

You can board here for a shorter tour

Riverbank at low water

More boats to board

The shorter ride

Lady with her pole of two cormorants

We continued on

Taller peaks

Sheer cliffs

Crow on the  bank

More vertical cliffs

So much to see

One way to carry things

Sheer cliffs on one side

Straight up

Eroding slowly

The convoy again

Hazy smog

Birds tethered to the pole

Low water

Quite shallow

More dog-like mountains

Riverbanks

This man had four birds for diving

People give them tips for photos

Two rafts, four birds

Trained for life

A village for tourists

Buildings covered with ivy – an attempt to avoid taxes

A row of peaks

Oxen are more like cows

Water will rise to the tops of this bank

A sharp turn left

Typical water buffalo – beast of burden

Very round body

Lots of trees added color

Too close for comfort

Still following

Buffalo on a walk

The 20 yuan bill – a scene from this river

The same view for real

Cool place to visit

Calm waters

We had fans who wanted our photo with them

Houseboat

Waterfall

Low water reveals wide sandy banks

Terraced kumquat plantation

Posing

Buffalo

Work boat

Bird in flight

Caves in the rock

Fisherman

Rock-lined bank

River traffic

Another creek flowing into the river

Getting lower now

Ducks on the bank and in the river

A building on the banks

End of the ride at Yangshuo

Fisherman

Lady selling kumquats

Sweet little fruit

People buying fruit as they leave the tour boat

The treasure tables begin

Miles of souvenirs

Some nice carvings

Long walk to our car

This town built up for the tourists

Famous hill

Items from India

Selling fruit

Many chain restaurants here

The dreaded durian fruit – eat at your own risk…..

Kumquat sales

Look….a KFC

A shrine in town