Yangshuo (26th October 2015)

This morning we walked around past fields a little outside of Yangshuo.

In amongst houses and fields there were burial mounds.

These all looked like greenhouses from a distance. Up close we see they're not fully enclosed.

These are trained fishing cormorants. They rest during the day.

A night, the fishermen use bright lights on their bamboo rafts to draw the fish to the surface, and the cormorants dive to catch the fish, but can't swallow them because of constrictions placed on their necks. When fishing is done, the constrictions are removed to allow the birds to feed.

(I'm not sure how much fishing is still done by this method. Might be just for tourists.)