GuiLin to ChengYang
         As our small expedition team gathered together in the Dong village of ChengYang - famous for it's "Wind and Rain" Bridges and Water Wheels all built without a single nail been used - about 166 km north west of GuiLin (see map), we are greeted with the centuries old sight of rice planting with every villager and "his dog" are out in the fields doing this back braking task.

         Here we are met and briefed by Mr Yang a Dong expert from the village of MaAn. Who will be accompanying us as guide for the entire journey into the outer regions of GuiZhou.
          Along the way, he told us, we'll be stopping to visit the remote villages of the Shui People, many different Miao villages with such exquisite names as - the "Hundred Feathered" People, Black Miao, "Flower" Miao, "mini skirt" Miao - along with rarely seen Dong and Yeo villages.
         He also told us that if we hurry we will be on time to see the annual Miao's Sisters Festival around the TaiJiang area but centered in the Village of ShiDong.
         Afterwards on the way back, we'll head to the villages of LongLi and TangAn. Two of the only 4 villages in GuiZhou which the villagers themselves have set up on the lines of the late Norwegian John Gjestrum principles of Living Ecological Museums.            DAY TWO