Yangshuo: post 3-and last one

some last photos from the Yangshuo trip

We really did enjoy seeing the country side and there definitely were some country towns. The one lane concrete road, and farm land and little community were interesting to see. The few hours after waking up on the sleeper provided better view than the speeding bullet train.

Double click or something on this photo and look at it closely. It is really interesting, there is a freight train coming out of a tunnel in the background, an interstate highway being built - note the concrete erosion control devices being built into the hillside.  I doubt if the highway will have an exit for the town though there are at least two cars there and a guy working a garden next to the river.  Of course he could be associated with the construction crew and the town virtually abandoned.  It would not be the first abandoned town we saw.

Nor was this the first overloaded auto delivery truck we saw.  I just hope the NC legislature does not find out this is even possible because they surely will provide for it on NC highways ASAP.  Those are delivery vans and Buick minivans on top.

This is what it looks like from the road.  We passed it on the interstate while in a bus/van going from Yangshuo to Guilin.

This is the bus/van we were in.  John Paul and I were on the back seat. A wafting scent of passed gas came by me and John Paul and I had the following conversation.
Grandaddy:  I think I smell passed gas.
John Paul:  (looking me full in the face hopefully-in a questioning voice rising toward the end of the sentence)  Was it you?
Grandaddy:  (slowly) Nooo, not me.
John Paul: (looking down, slowly, voice deepening sadly on the last word) It. Was. Meeee.  

We had a great ride!  There was room for us all— and the interstate was in great condition.  China is building highways!!

In one of the train stations, as we were moving through one of the long hallways the kids "freight trained" behind Laura.  Coming at you.

 and going away.  

and from the cave, the entrance sign greeting visitors.  As are most efforts at direct translation- something invariably gets a little stilted.  Especially check out 5 and 6.