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