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Bicycle Tour Adventure #32: China Page 6
Day 6: Touring China by Bicycle,
Today, we spend time in a Yao Mountain Village,
Bike Tour through Mountain Towns and Villages,
Bike through Tunnels and Terry crashes her bike
to avoid a tour member collision.
Yao Mountain Village Dress and Dance Performance.
One of a few Tunnels that we bike through - This Tunnel has lighting.
Day 6 Begins
Above Right: Breakfast, Yum!
Above Right: Sino is Chinese for Chinese. These SinoPec Gas/Petro Stations are probably the most common gas station (I suspect state owned or owned by the most state officers). The SinoPec Stations usually have snacks and really good bathrooms (according to the ladies).
Above Right: Still paralleling the river and coming across an electrical power station.
Above Right: River view.
We are changing, both, a geographic area and a cultural ethnic area. We are changing from a Cantonese area for the Yao mountain area. Yao are Mountain based Chinese and until the 1990's were allowed to carry rifles for hunting purposes. Hunting skills and marksmanship are still valued attributes among the men folk. Women folk value sewing skills as a very desirable skill - more later.Above Right: Entrance to a Yao Mountain Village. This is a real village that turned itself into a commercial village with cultural shows, dances, and demonstrations. There are vendors for Yao Wares in the foreground.
Above Right: Yao wares (tourist stuff). The Cow Horn is one of the Yao Symbols
Above Right: Main Hall and Official [Government Agent] Office.
Above Right: Hello, Alert, and Welcome Device.
Above Right: Yao dress wear.
![An Adult Dance [a mixer].](2010-10-17 088.JPG "An Adult Dance [a mixer].")
Above Right: An Adult Dance [a mixer, to get the party started].
Above Right: Ceremonial rice wine is offereed to Guests. No need to worry about sanitation with 25% alcohol! Glenda, Siobhán, Mary in the foreground, L-R.
Above Right: Eligible Females demonstrate that they know how to sew.
Above Right: I can harvest grain and cook as well.
Above Right: All eligible males on the left. [later MaLe]
You are, I accept, take my bag, and wear and show our carry bag with pride.
Above Right: Yao Fast Reflex Dance: The dancer steps in and out of opening and closing logs between rhythmic raps. As one may guess, there is a slow [tourist] version, a medium speed [for the youth with good reflexes], and there is a fast speed for professional dancers.
Above Right: L-R, Glenda, Siobhán, and Terry participate in a Hands Across the World round dance.
Above Right: Same character, reverse order (after a kind of Conga Line reverse in direction).
Above Right: Walkways demonstrate bark shingle roof style common to this area and to the Yao Community.
Above Right: Yao Village view to the East.
Above Right: Multi generational sewing circle.
Above Right: A Village Elder.
Above Right: Fema-Le.
Interesting, we wonder if they know something about the word derivation that most Westerners do not remember?
Above Right: An accidental picture (worthy of demonstrating both the view and the type of road for this mountain crest pedal adventure).
Above Right: A downhill run with a Rocks Falling sign. I can take pictures going down hill but it is sometimes challenging to take pictures going uphill, while pedaling.
Above Right: Reverse camera shot.
Above Right: A chain of pack horses carrying work related supplies.
Above Right: Valley view across rice paddies.
Above Right: Feathered grass highlighted by a lowering sun.
Above Right: This is a cross body picture of temporary dwellings used by a highway construction crew.
Above Right: Chinese lady with a big load.
There were kids yelling Hello in English; there were people on the roof top yelling Neehow (Hello) in Chinese; there were people working; there were kids playing; and there were plant seeds drying in the sun - A lot was going on at once
One of the riders in front of a chain of bike riders stopped to take a picture (without saying anything nor pulling off to the side of the road, as was the custom). The second rider, Terry, was watching the kids on her left side. As was I (Dennis), the third rider. I looked forward and saw the first rider nearly at a complete stop and Terry, not looking, was going to run into her! I yelled Watch Out and Terry veered to the right to avoid crashing into the stopped rider. Terry was now crashing into a cement ditch 1/2 a meter across and 1 meter deep (see next picture). I veered to the left to avoid everyone and while I was emergency stopping I heard Terry's terrible yell and crash. By the time I stopped and got off my bike, Terry was laying across the ditch opening.
Terry had minor scrapes and cuts and at first seemed OK. Later that night, upon self examination, Terry had determined that she had a Broken Rib. She could move the rib with her fingers or feel it move with a deep breath.
Above Right: A Chinese man and his water buffalo, retiring and returning home for the day.
Above Right: Terry and I pass through another check point on the other side of the mountains; we're in a new valley and district (where our hotel is located).
Above Right: Home for the night in Lianshan - Looks modern, does it not?
Above Right: There is a shower but NO Shower Stall! When we see this odd setup, we know that the shower is going to cause a mess in the bathroom. We order extra towels and create an action plan. We shower first because we have had a long day and one of us has bloody scrapes on her body, then we wipe everything down, let it dry while we are out to dinner, and then we move our toilet bags into the bathroom.
Above Right: Dinner.