Portrait of an LBX

Finally, a picture that doesn't involve a rice paddy! This is right before we took a cool dip and did some rock jumping into this river down below.

So apparently there's a lot of rice planting going on right now.

Farmers in Guangxi province transplant rice plants from the little greenhouses where they begin growing to the wet paddies where they will eventually be harvested.

It's rice planting season in a big way in Guangxi province. The farmers first grow the rice plants densely packed under plastic coverings, then transplant them into the paddy by tossing them down into rows, after which they go through and press the roots into the mud.

A barbershop in a small town in which Evan and I stopped for lunch. Surprisingly, the haircuts took a very long time.

After finishing up in the paddies, a man takes his water buffalo back to the homestead.

I wonder who would win in a mud wrestling match?

It's rice-planting season for sure. In Guangxi plowing the flooded rice paddies is still done mostly with the water buffalo.

Kinda looks like a scene from a horror movie. We've had some mighty dreary days lately, despite the fact that Guangxi, Yunnan and Guizhou are all severe drought areas lately. This woman is carrying a small sickle, a ubiquitous tool stuffed into the belts of nearly all the Zhuang women we see walking down the roads of Guangxi.

A woman transplants rice plants into a flooded rice paddy on a misty day in Guangxi.