I got back today from a great trip to SanJiang with the middle school kids from our school. The place we went to was about 2.5 hours away in the mountains. It was a beautiful place, even though it was a bit rainy. I tried to get some good pictures so you could experience a little bit of China.
I will do the best I can to caption each picture
Public toilets at the camping spot we were at. Notice the open stalls. Quite common in China.
Some of the kids playing in the river.A Tibetan horn
A rest stop...quite different from rest stops in America. You can pay to have your vehicle washed at the rest stop, which is nice. People generally keep their cars very clean in China.
The toilets at the rest stop- no kidding. Toilet paper is not provided at public toilets, so everyone carries tissue packets with them to use when they go to the toilet.
The bathroom in our cabin at the campsite. This is a very normal Chinese bathroom. A squatty potty, shower hose, and sink. When you shower, the water just runs into the squatty. Easy to keep the bathroom clean...you just spray everything down with the hose. Our bathrooms in our house looked like this when we moved in, but we had them remodeled with Western toilets and showers.
A worker carrying a basket full of stuff on his back.
Our campsite facility. Notice the tall pole in the middle. This is a Tibetan prayer pole. The flags have prayers written on them and are left flapping in the wind until the threads unravel and carry the messages written up to heaven. You can also see white scarfs on the stone structure underneath the pole. These scarfs are like a blessing and prayer, and people leave them on the stones or hanging in different places as a prayer.
Katie and I.
Some goats hanging out waiting to be dinner.
Our logcabin campfire.
The dining room we had breakfast and dinner in.
Some sites from the trip.
The little trains that took us back to the camping spot.
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