On Saturday Jumbo and Adam, the Zhuhai Educational Bureau administrators who have coordinated this trip, hosted us on a trip to the Beifeng National Park to go rafting. Their families also joined us for the ride down the river. The ride in the two man raft was a lot of fun. As we put on our helmets and life preservers we were given a bucket with a short handle. I figured the bucket was for bailing out water as needed. I was wrong. The bucket is for soaking the other rafters! The Chinese rafters loved to toss water at the Americans but I think we held our ground - even though we were out numbered. My sides still hurt from laughing☺ Sorry, no pictures of the raft ride.
On the way back we stopped at a restaurant where the specialty was “mud chicken.” They cook the chicken whole in a pit using mud and wood. Shown above is the cook building up a pile of mud for cooking the chicken. To the left is his helper and in front of the helper is a pit that is ready to have the chicken removed for serving.
Here is Jumbo’s daughter, Alice, getting the chicken ready to serve. If you recall I noted the chicken was cooked whole. And served to the table whole. If you look carefully to the right of the scissors you can see the head of the chicken. Mud Chicken is great!
Our ride to the mountain provided several hours to enjoy the rural Chinese countryside. The fields against the mountains are very beautiful. Here you can see a group of farmers planting rice.
