10/26/06 ~ All the Tea in China

On the Rio: UB40 ~ Sweet Sensation

Driving along the roadside in Huangshan there are green tea plants everywhere on the hills between the pine trees. Harvesting is in the spring.

Additionally, chrysanthemums (spelling?) are grown also for tea. These would be the white-topped flowers.

This is the old bridge in the city of Huangshan. I love how the Chinese use so many neon colors to outline buildings and bridges.

This is the old market street, where one can buy pretty much anything, from paper to wood carvings, to tea and dried mushrooms/fungi, paintings and trinkets. It was nice to wander here in the evening when the crowds were thinner.

The street also contains a traditional pharmacy.

The medicines are kept in the boxes for dispensing. Hopefully, there is a master list of the contents somewhere.

We ate snacks at a restaurant at the end of the street. We ordered a fried flat bread, a plate of fruit (melons and bananas), something like fried flat tortillas with a mashed red bean in the center, and vegetable dumplings.