Through Guizhou

So I spent about a week hopping from place to place in souther Guizhou province. I saw some great Miao and Dong villages and met lots of friendly people. I'll keep this post short and sweet because I'm not in a writing mood today. It's been raining like a bitch for a week and a half. Just won't let up. Parts south of here are apparently horribley flooded, including northern Vietnam (So it's good I'm not going there in 2 weeks like I originally planned).

But I thought I would give you a little eye candy...


Bad photo, but Miao women in traditional dress, dancing and singing.

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Dong children in traditional clothes

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Sweet Wind and Rain bridge

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And, oh yes, we had more road troubles. Really bad muddy patch. We're talking Willy Wonka's chocolate river. Buses and trucks stuck. We were stopped for two-and-a-half hours. I think it was all a ploy for some women to sell instant noodles to us for twice their normal worth. But you gotta eat, eh?

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A group of men, who I presume were there working on the road and a retaining wall, were quite helpful and spent the entire time pushing cars and trying to get everyone moving again. I can't imagine you'd see that happen in the states...without money being involved.

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So that's that. I'm in Guangxi now. Yangshuo. It's a big backpacker hangout. I'll be here about a week I think. On the river; beautiful karst mountain scenery. I will have some amazing photos to share later this week, assuming the rain lets up.

Also considering a trip to Macau, a special autonomous region near Hong Kong, to do some gambling. It's now officially bigger than Vegas. But we'll see.


And go Obama.