Riverine Activities
This view looks at a number of human activities on the River Li near Guilin, with the magnificent backdrop of some of the spectacular limestone scenery that makes this area so famous.
In mid-river are ripples from what appears to be a couple of artificial 'weirs' with a boulder-filled basket downstream of them. I can't quite make out what the person with the boat on the furthest of these is doing - collecting fish from nets or traps? The boat is made of bamboo trunks tied together, which was typical of those we saw being used throughout our trip along the river.
To the right of the mid-stream boat (and beyond it) can be seen a large splash. I can't remember what caused that. Yet further to the right, on the edge of the image, an individual can be seen in the river with one of the bamboo-trunk boats, covered in river grasses, which we saw being collected at several different sites.
On the left, beyond the 'weirs,' can be seen a boy with about half-a-dozen water buffalo which appear to be getting what might be their daily dip in the water.
Karst topography is a landscape shaped by the dissolution of a layer or layers of soluble bedrock, usually carbonate rock such as limestone or dolomite. Subterranean rivers, cave systems and extravagant surface deformation due to weathering (all found along the Li River) are examples of some of the features found in karst scenery. The locals and the riverside trees give a sense of the scale of the great peaks behind them.
Taken in the summer of 1984 and scanned from a negative.
Riverine Activities
This view looks at a number of human activities on the River Li near Guilin, with the magnificent backdrop of some of the spectacular limestone scenery that makes this area so famous.
In mid-river are ripples from what appears to be a couple of artificial 'weirs' with a boulder-filled basket downstream of them. I can't quite make out what the person with the boat on the furthest of these is doing - collecting fish from nets or traps? The boat is made of bamboo trunks tied together, which was typical of those we saw being used throughout our trip along the river.
To the right of the mid-stream boat (and beyond it) can be seen a large splash. I can't remember what caused that. Yet further to the right, on the edge of the image, an individual can be seen in the river with one of the bamboo-trunk boats, covered in river grasses, which we saw being collected at several different sites.
On the left, beyond the 'weirs,' can be seen a boy with about half-a-dozen water buffalo which appear to be getting what might be their daily dip in the water.
Karst topography is a landscape shaped by the dissolution of a layer or layers of soluble bedrock, usually carbonate rock such as limestone or dolomite. Subterranean rivers, cave systems and extravagant surface deformation due to weathering (all found along the Li River) are examples of some of the features found in karst scenery. The locals and the riverside trees give a sense of the scale of the great peaks behind them.
Taken in the summer of 1984 and scanned from a negative.