More movies: Yangshuo syle

The following three videos are from our hike through the rural area between Yangding and Qingping near Yangshuo. We took a bus to Yangding, a bamboo boat several miles down river, then hiked about two and a half hours to Qingping, looked around a bit, and took a bus back to Yangshuo for dinner.









Cory being weird.


It's a guy. And he fishes with birds. The guy uses Cormorants to do his fishing for him. Apparently this is really common among fishermen in the area. They tie a string around the bird's neck to be able to pull it in and so it can't fully swallow the fish it catches, then they make it spit the fish back out and send it out to catch more fish. The birds get fed at the end of the night.



Choreographed and directed by Chinese film director (and local) Johnny Mo, the local farmers, fishermen, schoolchildren and theater students put on this show every night. Next to the spectacular nature itself, this river show is THE best attraction in the area. These two videos can't possibly do it justice, but we took them anyway, so here they are.

Videos Part II

Ok, another set of videos, to soon be followed by actual stories about the trip by at least one (hopefully all) of us.



Our first night in Xi'an, we come across this troupe out on the street near our hostel. They weren't asking observers for money and all looked like your average folks from around the city. I guess they were just having a night out on the town...


A quick video from our tour of the terra cotta warriors site. Like a lot of the things we saw, pictures and videos don't really do it justice.


Xi'an has a nightly lights/water/music show that's free to the public. This is a bit of it.


They have neat kites too!

That's it for this update. More a written post and more videos to come.