Toilet

This old historical building in a park in Nanning is now a public toilet - a bit of a shame really.

Covered Walkway

Interesting Tree

We saw this in the Nanning Botannical Gardens - a wonderful place full of tropical plants. Nanning is known as the Green City of China.

The Three Leader's

Xiaohua in Nanning

Xiaohua Feeding Large Goldfish

Dragon Lady - Liuzhou City

Liuzhou is not far from Guilin and although it is an industrial city, so full of air pollution, it is still an interesting city with karst hillis throughout the city. Karst hills are of limestone and just seem to have been speared through the ground.

Fossilised Dinosaur Egg

Two veiws - this in fact was for sale at a reasonable price and came with the proper certification - only problem is that if you did buy it you cannot take it out of China!!!!

Karst Hill - Liuzhou City

Karst - Central Liuzhou City

Karst Hill

This was the most impressive of all the karst hills I saw in the city. It was easily 200 meters and very sheer. We did not walk up there as it was a very hot and humid day.

Old Wooden House

We came across this house in the middle of a forest park. The unusual thing was, that you do not see many wooden houses here - probably because of the high humidity. It was surrounded by beautiful palm trees including banana and also pineapples were grwoing out back.

Plants growing out of rock

Local Taxi

Saw this guy in a small village not far from Xiaohua's family village. Further up the road from here, was the hotel where I was staying - NZD 1.25 a night and I was the first foreigner ever to have stayed there, in fact I was the second foreigner to have ever been there since the Japanese invasion in WW2.

Looking Across to Xiaohua's Village

Mountain Backdrop - Xiaohua's Village

Steep Hill

This must have been as tall as Mt Victoria in Wellington - extremely impressive and very sheer. This was at the back of another viallge not far from where I was staying.

Sunset from Xiaohua's Village

This was taken from the roof top of Xiaohua's father's house, even though we were 100's of LM from a major city there was still a lot of pollution in the air.

Xiaohua's Sister's Village

The mountain backdrop is quite amazing - again this is all karst limestone.

Xiaohua's Village

Inhabitants here are about 900 - all cooking is done on fired clay or mud ovens/stoves. There is intermittent electricity here and water comes from artesian wells, not all houses have water pumped in. There is no hot running water and no toilets in most houses, but a few communal toilets scattered around the village.