Shaxi 12 June

DSCN6597 The front seating area of our B&B DSCN6598 The walkway to the back courtyard and our room DSCN6600 Waiting for our taxi to Shaxi DSCN6601 Not everything was brand-new here
DSCN6609 This is a single cylinder diesel powered cross between a rototiller and a pickup truck, probably one of the least safe devices I have ever seen. DSCN6602 What is looked like from the backseat of the taxi DSCN6603 Two plus hours later we arrive at the car park in Shaxi DSCN6604 A town map on the front wall of a...hotel?
DSCN6605 Good Data? Bad Data? DSCN6606 Quite amazing roof structures DSCN6610 Shaxi had a street of shops too DSCN6611 Magic beans!
DSCN6613 Seemingly industrial woodworking DSCN6617 Small decorative items for, say, your hotel lobby DSCN6618 The famous restored temple DSCN6620 Shops on the market square in front of the temply
DSCN6665 The other side of the market square DSCN6666 Restaurant on the square DSCN6622 Shop contents DSCN6660 Shop contents
DSCN6625 The gang heads out the gate and toward the river DSCN6626 Lovely bridge DSCN6627 Flood plain DSCN6628 Nikki checking it out
DSCN6629 Field of some sort DSCN6630 Modern vestweat with passing lovely young woman DSCN6631 Naxi lady and prog DSCN6632 The river from the bridge
DSCN6633 The bridge needs Nikki and Greg... DSCN6634 and then Austin and Nikki DSCN6635 and more of Austin and Nikki DSCN6636 Liu Mung Jun and Su Wei crossing the bridge
DSCN6637 Local work party painting the tree trunks with some kind of anti-pest compound DSCN6638 Local transport and verdant fields DSCN6639 Ducks being herded down to the stream DSCN6640 in they go!
DSCN6641 A herd of humans interpreting the landscape DSCN6643 The front view DSCN6644 Plastic seems inseparable now from Chinese agriculture DSCN6645 Young lady hawking perfume
DSCN6646 Local middleschoolers DSCN6647 Eastside of west-bound tourist DSCN6648 Trying to decipher the field DSCN6649 Very old willow tree
DSCN6650 Door to mystery DSCN6651 The horses of the Tea Horse Road DSCN6652 small creatures DSCN6653 Off they go, looking for riders
DSCN6654 Su Wei and our driver confer DSCN6655 Nikki and Greg stare DSCN6656 Carved panels abound DSCN6657 Searching for a restaurant
DSCN6658 Looking into houses... DSCN6659 Intrepid travelers! DSCN6661 Not what I want for lunch! DSCN6662
DSCN6663 Lovely II DSCN6664 Lovely III DSCN6670 We found a restaurant that promised a quick lunch DSCN6669 The view from our restaurant room
DSCN6672 Greg leading by example DSCN6667 A bizarre apparition: Thomas Kincaid's idealized vision of rural life DSCN6673 Zhao's Shoes! 1 Mostly kitties, some rabbits!
DSCN6674 Swissitude: scale modl of Shaxi DSCN6675 Guardian Demon I DSCN6676 Guardian Demon II DSCN6678 Ethnobotany
DSCN6679 Inside the Temply DSCN6682 A Swiss project restored the market square DSCN6683 Data by which to track down participants DSCN6680 Unclear if they ever really achieved the broader sustainable development goals of trails and village stays
DSCN6681 Apparently they did build the dry toilets DSCN6684 Inside the restored temple DSCN6686 Buddhas DSCN6688 Magnolias
DSCN6689 Temple exterior DSCN6690 Theater across the square DSCN6692 It serves now as a museum DSCN6693 at the very top is a local god
DSCN6694 who likes cash! DSCN6695 View from the theater stage across to the temple DSCN6696 Stage ceiling DSCN6697 Frieze above stage
DSCN6700 Built with adobe but with tile roofs. DSCN6701 Rural roof line DSCN6702 Back to our car, we say goodbye to the hotel DSCN6703 Later we say goodbye to V-flashing Christine on her way back to Guangzhou
DSCN6704 Off she goes! DSCN6705 We head off to test some teas DSCN6706 Flower teas DSCN6708 Tea-meister
DSCN6709 Nikki and Su Wei I DSCN6710 Nikki and Su Wei II DSCN6711 Nikki and Su Wei III DSCN6712 Closing the tea deal
20160612 210254 Dinner at the Naxi Snack Shack! 20160612 220647 Walking back in the dark drizzly night