Li River Cruise - Karst landscape
by Willettsworld
So what is a Karst landscape? Well, it's all due to limestone that has been dramatically eroded. The warm wet climate in the southwest of China speeds up the weathering of limestone by acid rainwater and chemicals in rotting plants. Surface streams lose water to cave systems developing in the limestone. Surface drainage is diverted down sink holes to below the water table. Peaks then start to develop from the land left after erosion by the streams. The cave system gets larger as fast-moving subsurface streams bore through the limestone and the water table drops. Much of the limestone has eroded past the caves down to a layer of shale whilst the limestone peaks remain, such as the one's found in the Guilin area.
There are two types of Karst features: Fenglin karst is characterised by peaks that rise near vertically, like trees, 100 to 250 feet (30 to 80m) above the surrounding flat ground. The other type is known as Fengcong karst. Their peaks are more cone-shaped and one hill meets the next across a depression or doline and are clustered together. If you travel down the Li River on a cruise, it starts with Fenglin karst before gradually giving way to the dense Fengcong as you reach Yangshuo.
Chinese Minorities
by Sharrie
Besides Yunnan & Guizhou provinces, Guangxi province claims to have as many minorities, like Yao, Zhuang & Dong. Ethnic culture like cloth spinning, brocade, embroidery & handicrafts of wood & bamboo carving are very rare in the world.
For the ethnic women, it is crucial that they be equipped with the skills for spinning cloth with cotton & ramee. Traditional technique of beating ramee, dipping them in water, extracting the fibers & then strand them for cloth-spinning in their own looms is still practised in many villages.
It makes you wonder
by herzog63 about many
This guy was catching Cray fish and small fish in this sewer water! I wonder if he was selling it to the local restaurants!! Extra flavor it really makes you wonder sometimes. It might be better to not think about it and just enjoy the flavor. haha
Getting started when the fisherman is in position
by easyoar
Once the fisherman has moved his raft out into a sensible fishing position, he will encourage his Cormorant birds to go out on to the river to hunt for fish.
Sometimes they need a little encourangement! In this case, he picked the bird up on his bamboo cane stick, and lowered it into the water. This wasn't done in any way agressively, and the birds seem very friendly with the fishermen, however there is something still to come which I didn't think was too nice, and would probably get the animal rights activists going which we will come to soon!
Fubo Shan - Thousand Men Pot
by Willettsworld
This large pot is said to have been made in the second year of the reign of the Kangxi emperor of the Qing dynasty in 1663 in Foshan in Guangdong province. It weighs 1000kg, is 1.5 metres in diameter and is 0.8 metres deep. It is said that the pot can cook three hundred "jins" of rice to offer as food for 1,000 men, hence its name.
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Li River's Real Cormorant Fishers
