the lovely view from the hotel
A small primative farming village
All the villagers have one shepard take care of thier sheep.
Yeah 5 Colleges
Maybe they're goats
Millet farming
The town was mostly built out of clay
Walking up to an old man's hut that is built into the mountain.
Inside the hut
Old Man and Laura
Weed, it grows as a weed out here in farmville
Hanging Monastary
Built into the side of a moutnain. The lumber had to be lowered from above on the moutain top.
There used to be a river at the foot of the monastary. Now it is dammed.
I'm not sure if the dam is temporary or not. There was a lot of construction in the neighboring areas along old river beds.
Punk
From floor one to floor two of the monastary
Woodwork
That's good advice
The stairs down were very narrow.
Buddha Caves
Construction outside Buddha caves
Buddha from a distance
second largest Buddha in the caves
Eye
The holes were put up to support a plaster casing so that the Buddhas could be painted on
The plaster slipped off without the holes
The caves were very worn down
Those are temples near the end of the main caves
Color. Repainted, not original
Hi Us!
The end of a very dark cave. I used the flash to see if there was anything down this passage way.
Dinner. Tofu with seaweed and Pringles. It was actually very good.
The rest of the food.
Looking out from the Great Wall
See the Great Wall going over the hills into the distance
Guard Tower. Spaced every 100 meters or so
Photo on the Great Wall
That's higher then it looks
Trash
No idea what that bronze looking thing is
Lucy, at a distance
Climb Laura
The trees are to prevent erosion
Strong, like the Great Wall
An old Fort
The Donkey was scary, so she didn't get to close
These houses are made up of bricks from the old fort.
Mao said because you are poor you should take the bricks from the fort to make houses.
The people are old farmers. The young people go to the city or the mine to work
Lucy was a little afraid of heights on the wall
Lucy's tree
Farmers who want you to drive over there crop
It's millet
Yup
