Your host’s brother is currently on an extended cycling tour from Thailand (where he has worked for the last 4 years) into rural China and probably beyond knowing him.

Having read his cycling blog many times, I wanted to highlight some of the many wonderful phtographs he has captured on his tour. If you are at all interested in rural China or are looking for places off the usual tourist track to visit then you really ought to go and have a browse around his blog.

The selection below are just a few of many varied and wonderful sights that the lucky bugger has captured on film and there are many, many more at Cycling round the dustbowl :

Xingping limestone hills

Xingping again – a very strange late evening landscape.

Traditional Dong style wooden village houses

Wind and Rain bridge in Chengyang by night

Wind and Rain bridge in the daylight showing its extensive decoration.