Yangshuo, China Part 3

We went to see a light show on a lake. It is choreographed by the same guy who is in charge of the Beijing Olympic opening ceremonies. None of the pics worked but the show was good.
It starts off without lighting and then next thing we knew, all around was fire! All around the lake and in the lake were people holding lit torches. There is a cast of 500 and they've put on a show every night since 2004. Not too sure what it was all about since it was in mandarin, but the whole thing was visually spectacular, especially since it is staged on the water. In this pic the people on the rafts lift and drop massive lengths of red cloth to simulate waves.



















We woke up early and took a river cruise down the Li.

































These are fishing cormorants. Local fisherman raise these from chicks. When they are old enough, they take them out fishing on their bamboo raft. They tie a string around the birds neck so they can't swallow. The birds dive down, gobble a fish, come up and the fisherman takes the fish out of the birds throat. The bird gets a cut at the end of the day.





The picture on the 20 Yuan bill!










Next up was bicycling thru the countryside. We hired Lily to take us around for the afternoon.