Today we went on a bamboo raft trip on the Li River. This is our boat man with his raft. It actually should be called a bamboo/PVC raft. We were on the river for two hours.
The scenery was beautiful. Jack and I tried to compare it to places we have been and came up with a combination of Hawaii, the Bahamas, Seattle, and the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Jack is at the front of the raft in this picture. We probably passed 50 rafts just like ours, and I think he waved at every one. I'm just not that friendly.
This karst is called "the man on a horse." Jack and I couldn't make out a man or a horse, but we politely nodded to our boatman. It was difficult enough for him to give us the name in english. It was a nice afternoon. Tonight we went back into town, roamed the streets, and had a delicious $10 dinner of beef stir fried rice, noodles and pork in broth, and stir fried vegetables. An older man who does paper cuts made one of Jack and followed us for quite a while trying to sell it to us. I thought it did hold some resemblance, but Jack thought it looked like Dick Cheney. He refused to buy. Tonight we are packing for our flight back to Beijing tomorrow. We would like to get an earlier flight so we can make a trip out to the Olympic sites tomorrow night. If we make it, we'll post some pictures!
Warning: When you get back to the states you won't be able to stop talking about China and comparing what we do and what they do. You'll also really appreciate toilets and the lack of serious odor in them. It was amazing to us to see how obese Americans really are. Yes, the Chinese are kind, generous, calm and smile easily!
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Lynn
Keep blogging....Mike said he can't respond because he can't remember his acct password but he is enjoying the blog!