Guangdong is known to be one of the most industrialized place in China especially in the Pearl River Delta squeezed between Hong Kong and Guangzhou. However, Guangdong still have nice and natural mountains and lakes to explore.
People are also charming. Here, the owner of a restaurant who served us tea, prunes and olives and an excellent meal.
Soil in Fujian and Guangdong is orange-red and very loose which allows Chinese to literally level mountains in order to transform the whole area in an industrial park.
This river leads to a gigantic lake at the root of the mountains in a very remote area of Guangdong that may be compared to the Abitibi in Quebec, lakes everywhere and a strong wood industry.
Rice terraces in Guangdong
At some points, we found ourselves biking in really poor and devastated areas. On the picture below, a sample of a 20 km bike ride on an Irak-like road where houses on both sides of the road have been cut, leaving half rooms opened to the street and hills of ruins. It is sometimes difficult to understand what is going on. In this case, we figured out that they were trying to enlarge to road to build an highway but for some reasons they have been stopped in the process.
Despite of that, these houses still inhabited by enthusiastic people. Here a man inviting us for breakfast in his half house. Look at the round doors on the second and third floors that have been walled up and reconverted into windows.
Biking in a dusty industrial town in the delta of the Pearl River near Guangzhou
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