Shot in a very rural fishing village in China, the team heads out on a mission to buy a duck with no supermarkets in sight. No commentary, no real editing—it’s raw and uncut so you might know “what it’s like” yourself.

The next installation in my ongoing series of “Guest Traveler” posts, written by people I’ve met along the way. This post is from 陈峦 Helen Chen Luan, a Chinese friend of mine who lives in Shanghai. She writes about her trip to Lugu Lake in the Yunnan Province of China.

There are many rules of travel I have learned during my travels: the biggest of which might be: Don’t redesign your travelogue while on a camel safari in a 3rd world country.

Please excuse us while we rearrange a bit around here. (Thanks John Bollwitt for your technical and creative expertise in making this happen.)

I promise we’ll get all this digitial “construction dust” cleaned up, once I figure out where to park this camel.

-Andy

After an hour by train, five by bus, two by taxi and a short trip aboard a small wooden ferry boat, I stepped onto the beach of the small island of Jin Xua in the south eastern part of China. I was, reportedly, the first American to ever visit the island’s small fishing village of one thousand people, of which exactly none spoke English…