China is... wet!

China (or South China, at least) has lots of water. On the way out of Guangzhou we went over so many bridges, and it reminded me of my train journey out of Shanghai last year which was just the same. All the rivers a crawling with boats going in all directions.


Chinese has two words for rivers, Jiang for a big one and He for a small one. River number 5 (above) was only a He. All the others were Jiangs.


In addition to rivers, the who countryside was covered with these fish ponds, with funny fountain things in the middle (for food, I guess)


With all the water, its not surprising that everything is so wet (the ground, the air, your clothes, you, ...). The growth is explosive - everywhere is covered in trees, plants, shrubs and animals, particularly insects that love my legs as much as they did last year.