Perhaps you have read The Finding Place, and you’re wondering what many of the landscapes described in the book actually look like. If so, this post is for you! Kelly’s birth village is a fictional creation, but is based on many of the villages I visited in the area around Yangshuo. The image above shows traditional cormorant fishermen putting on a demonstration like the one Kelly sees.
A typical house in a village close to Yangshuo.
A woman walking with a water buffalo.
Kelly tries her hand at palm painting in the novel just as this girl is doing here.
A traditional fan-maker in the small village of Fuli, close to Yangshuo.
A bee keeper on the road to Yangshuo.
Travelling by raft along the Li River
Looking through Moon Rock, near Yangshuo, to Karst Peaks beyond.
