li garden, kaiping, china

li garden is another diaolou villiage,
with spectacular gardens worthy of pillage.
birds, miniatures, murals, flowers and greens,
litter this beautiful, well manicured scene.

nanxing village, kaiping, china

from guangzhou we rode a bus two hours to the countryside,

and ended in a place where modern and ancient worlds collide.

we had come to see the diaolou and villages of kaiping,

multi-storied concrete towers for protection as well as living.