Xijie

Friday, March 14th, 2008

This morning, our next destination was the Yinzi Cave. The rain from the previous night made the lake looked foggy. The pictures did not turn up quite well. But it sure feels like one is traveling through the celestial court short of fairies flying around.

A nice fishermen came on board our ferry on our way to the Yinzi Cave. We have to pay to take photograph with his precious birds.

Look at the birds on the pole which i am carrying. They are real birds! and they made the pole feel heavy on my shoulders. They are a kind of kingfisher used by the local fishermen. The neck of the birds are tight up so that they could not swallow any fishes they caught. Their owners will remove the life fish from their mouth after they had done their job.

Yinzi is another beautiful cave of almost the same nature as the previous one. So not posting anything much on it.

I loved this view from the cave.

During the night, we went to watch “Impression Liu Sanjie“. Just like what was mentioned in the website, the natural environment was used as the backdrop. The number of performers was enormous at a number of 3000. Most of the performers were by the local farmers and fishermen. You could see how skillful they were when they row in the sampans onto the natural stage on the Li River. It’s pretty smart of them to use these professionals as part-time performers. They can save on the training cost Unfortunately i couldn’t show you any pictures. The night shots did not turn out very well.