Portrait of an LBX

Elderly men sit and chat near a market in a Hebei mountain village.

The scene as we climb out of Danjia (單甲村), where we were treated to a most excellent, home-cooked Wa (佤族) dinner the evening before.

An elderly Wa (佤族) woman watches the evening goings-on in Xuelin (雪林鄉). A wedding was being held in the house across the street. We passed by three times and lingered but failed to garner an invitation.

A Han Chinese toddler runs through the streets of Xuelin (雪林鄉), a Wa (佤族) township atop a mountain 12 kilometers from the Burmese border in western Yunnan. The boy is the son of one of a handful of Han families. The two we met were from Hunan and running small convenience stores in the town.

We are now retracing the steps of Evan and my October 2008 bike trip through the mountains of southern Yunnan. Last time, I managed to leave my camera's memory cards in Beijing. Evan saved the trip (photographically speaking) by having a 512mb CF card on him, on which I was able to store 42 pictures from my Canon 10D in JPG format. This time, we are covered with all the (heavy!) camera equipment listed on the Gear page, and no photographic opportunities shall be missed! This view can be found on the way down from Potou (坡頭鄉) to Yuanyang (元陽), a 33km descent.