Ping'An Village

Ping'An village is in the hills about 3 hours from Guilin, Guangxi province. Was a small hike up stone staircases and paths up to the village from where the bus dropped us. Zhuan is the name of the ethnic minority living here. The Women are distinguished by flouro headgear wrapped around their hair. Yellow, pink, green or blue. Not sure if the colour is of significance. We decided to stay the night in the village and got a cheap room - about $12 for the night. 3 story wooden structure. Large restaurant on the bottom floor. Food speciality of the area is food cooked in bamboo. For lunch I had bamboo chicken and bamboo rice. The food item is stuffed inside a large section of bamboo, and cooked over flames. The ends of the bamboo are corked with a piece of corn cob. The bamboo is split apart and served as is. The chicken had large pieces of ginger and other herbs and was very tasty, slightly smokey and woody in flavour. The rice had pumpkin and pork with it, and was a very stick and glutinous variety. Also delicious.

We met a Woman from San Fransisco, Coleen, who had befriended another Woman from Shanghai, english name Kelly, who spoke very good english. We sat and spoke into the night at a cafe, and also decided to rise in time to see sunrise over the rice terraces. Unlike the two guys we conversed with in Chengdu, Kelly was not comfortable discussing anything political about China, other than general noncontroversial issues. Its interesting trying to get the tone of things here.






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