This man was whipping this massaging ball onto his back.

Hundreds of people of all ages were ballroom dancing.

This man invited Peter to play badminton!

He was incredibly fit!

Brita joined in, too.

Then Kaia played Brita.

Tai Chi

Fan Dancing

A slow exercise with sword-like instruments

This lady invited Brita to play hacky-sack.

Kaia joined in, too.

We often saw men taking their birds for a walk!

There was a long delay leaving Luoyang as Mark and "Florence" wrestled with the hotel to find Eliot's lost underwear. Finally, it showed up!

"Florence"

On way back to airport, there was much talk of the Three Gorges Dam to be completed in 2008.  Drowning farmland, bringing electricity to starving people...a marked contrast between coastal areas and Luoyang/Kaifeng…much more rural underdeveloped.  They need the flood control and the hydro-power, but at the cost of a lot of prime farmland that they also need to feed all these people.

A happy family in the PRC