The next morning, students packed and boarded the bus early. Breakfast consisted of delicious buns purchased from a restaurant just opening when the bus pulled up. The buns were steamed flour with various fillings: lotus, sesame seed paste, sugared peanuts and spicy pork to name a few.
After breakfast, the students rode to Hongyan Cun, or “Redrock Village”. The village is built in the center of a huge expanse of persimmon trees and all of the farmers live in the village together. It was built with government funding and is a model village, attempting to be sustainable and environmentally friendly. Students toured the village, seeing all of the various crops grown and keeping an eye out for ripe persimmons. It just happened to be mere weeks too early for persimmons, but the students weren’t fazed. In the end, one or two were plucked from trees and everyone who wanted to try was able to get a taste.
A family in the village hosted lunch for the students after a bamboo rafting trip and a hike up the sloping mountain with its tiny pagoda-like shelter beckoning students to climb up for a quick visit.
The drive back to Guilin was a little under four hours. Students hunkered down and slept most of the way home. Upon returning to campus, dinner was served and the group was given the night off afterwards.
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