Guilin China: Caverns

One of the best parts of the Guilin visits was going into some of the caverns.  They were large and spectacular!

There are still many caverns some of which are open for tourists.  This is a rather enormous room and there is only a small entrance into this area.

This room has a small lake.  I used a flash on this shot and the shot below it was without the flash which captured the blue light reflecting in the lake.

A video to give you an idea of how large some of these rooms are!!

Another video showing part of a music and light show that periodically plays in one part of the caverns.

Guilin China: Cormorant Fishing

I couldn't get this in the earlier post because it wouldn't "publish" so I kept deleting things until it would post.  I am disappointed how non-user friendly this software is, but I will persevere...

We went one evening and watched two fishermen use Cormorant's to fish something that is not commercially done.  Quite a process...

Fishermen used to fish using Cormorants during the night.  They would tie a string around the birds neck so it couldn’t swallow the fish all the way down.

 The bird is trained to go to the fisherman who grabs the bird by the throat (you can see the tail of the fish emerge from the mouth of the bird).

You can see that the fish is now mostly out of the bird's mouth.