Monday, 6 April - San Jiang to Long Ji

Breakfast in San Jiang	Room notice	Notice on bedroom door about what to do if there is a fire	Fishing for supper	Our Dong guide	Michael trying to translate what she said into English
Waterwheels for irrigation	Six waterwheels for the irrigation	Ladies ploughing the fields	Bridge construction with no nails	Stone paving to paths and roads	Tourist signpost
This area is more commercialised than the others we have visited	Typical houses	Man selling reed pipes	Michael our guide	Musical event using different size pipes	Ma'an village entertainment
The cast	The drunkards in the drinking song	Welcome song - more rice wine	Dong costumes in Ma'an village	The get everyone together dance	Off to get the next load
Walking through the Ma'an village	Domestic scenes	How to make shiny material	Dong house layout	Courtship ritual of Dongs	The bridges we have been seeing today
Drum Tower explanation	Dong singing seems popular	Taro plant	New bamboo shoots growing	So many new houses being built and without any nails	Ornate carvings on houses - no nails or screws used
Large cabbage leaves drying to be pickled	Little temple area on one of the bridges	Rice starting to be uncovered now as the shoots are big enough	Yan village was the second one we walked through	Another rice grinder	Lunchtime
Hand ploughing	Long Ji paddy fields	Long Ji terraced fields	Half way up the mountain	Long Ji fields with village	Map of the area of Long Ji
Our guest house has the chimney on a flat bit of roof	Rhodedendrons 1	Irrigation pipes	Bamboo used to get water flowing in the correct direction	Fields being flooded	Path wending its way around the contours back to the village
Home at top of mountain	Fabulous views of the rice fields some already flooded ready for planting	On the path back to the village	Ploughing before flooding	Some still being ploughed before flooding	View from bedroom of where we walked
Warm enough for drinks outside before dinner	Our room in the Ping An guesthouse