Day 12 - 23 Apr, Thursday: 大寨>龙胜>三江>程阳

. Thursday, April 30, 2009

It was raining that morning, so there was no sunrise to catch. And there was fog after the rain.
The fog came...
... and went with the wind.
I checked out of the hotel and started to make my way down the hill when the weather became better. This time, i carried my own luggage.
At the bottom of the hill, i took a bus back to 龙胜 and then from there, another bus to 三江. On the way, i met this group of 3 Malaysians who were going to the 三江 train station and i borrowed Lonely Planet from one of them to take a look. The chinese travel guide which i bought was much better than LP, at least for the Guangxi chapter.

And this is 三江.
From 三江, i took another bus to 程阳. 程阳 is actually a collective of a few Dong (侗) minority villages, turned into a tourist attraction.
Most of the fields were filled with water already.
I was walking among the villages, which made me feel that i was intruding the privacy of the villagers.
A sign that nobody cared about.
Green.
The whole place was actually rather beautiful and there were quite a bit of art students staying at the same place as me.
Those looked like giant cabbages. 
Water wheel.
The main attraction of the place - 程阳风雨桥, the main attraction of the whole place. This bridge was constructed without any use of nails and rivets. Impressive...

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