Hot Chocolate Anyone ?

@Catcakes @YTT

On that remote mountain path in the picture, I spotted a discarded instant noodles packet with Disney Princesses pictured on it. Commercialism is worming its way into every corner of the world, and not always doing everyone a favour.

The most adventurous thing I ate while there was assorted innards cooked in a spiced stock. Stomach tastes quite good, but has a bit of a rubbery texture.

When you're being treated as a honoured guest, you don't insult them by refusing the food put in front of you.

@Catcakes, I think part of the litter problem is in the rapid shift from a farming to a manufacturing society. If you are eating a bunch of lychees, and drop the seeds and skins on the ground, the worst they'll do is temporarily attract rats. Plastic wrappers are a different story; but the "toss it" mindset has perhaps outlasted the change in the nature of the disposibles. In the villages, a big part of the hassle is that while people will happily carry the packaged goods up the mountain, who wants to carry the accumulated rubbish back down again? So a garbage pile acumulates, and ends up washing or blowing around the village and fields and forests. It really underlines that internet meme- "You can't throw it away- there's no such place as "away"."

It is good, though, seeing the Chinese govenrment initialtives such as Garden Cities. The number of trees that have been planted along roads and in public places in Nanning is downright impressive. Not just single row avenues- plantings that are 5+ deep drows of trees lining highways. They'll need to step it up to really make a difference, but the same could be said of our own country.