Tea Plantation near Yangshuo, China

Our first week in Yangshuo the kids and I took a brief language class at Omeida Chinese Academy. I finished it with a lot of notes and the feeling that I still could not pronounce anything correctly. Although, Ethan did remember how to say, “stop, stop, stop” one day when the taxi passed our destination. So, it was worth it.

The next weekend we tagged along with the real students from the school to visit a tea plantation.

We were all given hats, and baskets to collect our tea.

It was a pleasant place to relax while picking a few tea leaves.

Where’s Waldo? Or Ethan in this case. They oddly look a lot alike these days.

Matthew managed to skip the hat and basket.

When we finished picking the leaves, we learned how to dry them before ending the day with a tea tasting.