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Helen, my dad and I in Dong village |
Dinner night market in Gui Yang |
Walking on water in the stone forest near Huang Gou Shu |
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Possession for new year celebration in one of the many minority villages
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Cute kids in minority clothes |
Helen and I |
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View from Tang An village |
Nuo Mi Ba Ba wedding cakes being made |
Want to buy a gold fish? |
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Local minorities at Huang Gou Shu |
Interesting view near Huang Gou Shu |
nice view from stone forest on water |
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Helen and I at a large natural "bridge" |
Me and my parents at the stone bridge |
Possession starts with music and fireworks |
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Interesting "flute" |
Cute kid - lots of kids in the minority areas |
Old lady in Dong village |
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Everything get carried around |
Interesting way of handling a sick kid |
Helen and I in Dong village |
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Nice picture from Dong village |
Cute kid |
Three sisters - no one child policy here |
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Old lady in Dong village |
View over Tang An village |
Wedding gifts in Tang An village |
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The making on Nuo Mi Ba Ba |
and again - they made more than 500 for the guests |
Visiting the husband to be's house |
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Eating rice in Tang An |
Nice View from Tang An |
Another nice view |
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New Year fishing - mud fishing is a Chinese tradition |
Plane going back from - note all the people showing up outside to watch |
My parents and I at Huang Gou Shu |
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Impressive Huang Gou Shu waterfall |
You can walk behind the fall - looking out from behind |
There is a nice rainbow at the fall |
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A view of the Huang Gou Shu fall in the distance |
Another view |
Old man smoking pipe |
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Welcome tea at Tun Pu Village |
On the way to stone bridge |
Inside the stone bridge |
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another view |
and another |
yet another |
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Helen and my dad walking through the bridge |
On the way back from the stone bridge |
Resting before lunch |
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My dad with some minority people |
Helen at the procession (before it started). We just happened to see it on the way to Dong village |
My mum at the possession |
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Tower in Dong village (Drum tower) - 5 towers in the village - one per major family |
Another drum tower |
Special cloth used to make clothes |
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Kids helping out - note the knife the kid is using |
Local minority kid |
Going to the drug store |
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View from Dong village |
Another view |
and another |
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Half way completed house |
Preparing the cloth - with a wooden hammer |
Local washing in the river |
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View over Dong village |
Looking up the river in Dong village |
Interesting stairs in Dong village |
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More cloth material |
Not uncommon means of transportation - there are also a lot of motor cycles and some cars |
Nice view from Tang An |
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Another one |
Carriage used for drying shoes |
Wedding gifts in Tang An village |
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Bringing the gifts to the brides house |
Smoking man |
more Nuo Mi Ba Ba cakes |
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New year fishing |
Secret garden -> |
on top of this |
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View of waterfall |
Helen and my parents |
Another view of Huang Guo Shu |
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All of us |
Still quite a lot of water |
Helen and I |
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You can walk all the way around (even walk behind the fall) |
Helen and I |
My dad |
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View b from the Huang Guo Shu fall |
Nice rainbow |
Another view |
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Here we are again |
And again |
Nice view back at the fall |
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more pictures of Helen and I |
again |
Helen at the fall |
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one more |
Hiking the narrow path at stone garden |
lead to nice views at the stone forest |
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more nice views from the stone forest |
and more |
and more from the end of the hike at the stone forest |
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Helen and I at Huang Guo Shu |
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