This morning we took the bigger motorized fake bamboo raft down the Li River to the ancient town of Fuli.
Lots of people were out on the river. Apparently the little village of Yangshou now gets 13 million tourists a year. It is so crowded compared to when I was here in 2002. I guess alot of them are coming for the fantastic huge opera on the river.
I have painted this scene in watercolour with a more colourful sky. Check it out at http://www.worldarttours.net/chinapaintings.html
Our guide was a buffalo boy as he was growing up.
Think we'll take a wide berth as we go around that one. Those horns are big!
Walking up the path to the village of Fuli. Cute but a fair bit of garbage kicking around.
There are lots of artists in the village. We had a nice look around this studio and shop and bought a few lovely traditional paintings for a quite a deal.
Angie and the artist.
There are also lots of trinkets for sale--probably some fake antiques.
There was also a factory artshop making different fans and paintings which were being shipped out.
We were actually enjoying the market until we saw that they had two dog carcasses for sale. They looked smoked but probably had just had the hair burned off. They were also gutted and lying on their backs with paws in the air and fangs showing. Being vegetarians I am pretty much having nightmares over this one, although, as a vegan I am equally disturbed at seeing dressed cows and sheep--or should I say "undressed". Not quit so thrilled about Fuli.
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