rice fields

Rice was just being harvested. What back breaking labour. All the rice is cut and carried by the villagers. They stack it everywhere you can imagine (except where the corn is!) to dry for a couple of weeks. Then it is put through a machine - the village owns one and everyone shares it, to shake the kernels off. It is stored, ground or then sold. Megan wanted to come back and help them harvest the rice, but that didn't happen. Would have been an interesting experience.

Fairy's trip

October 28th 2009
Our latest trip was only a weekend adventure, but it is amazing how much you can fit in to a couple of days. Fairy is the Chinese wife of a B.C. teacher. She runs a small shop with a variety of services: travel guide, massages, trinkets, as well as funding several charities in the region. She is quite an amazing woman. We signed up for a trip with her in october which turned out to be much more t ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more

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