Mystery Plant: Blue flowers up at Tiavi

Mystery Plant 4

Unkown flower of plant found growing at Tiavi

On the day I visited the Vailima Botanical Garden I drove further up to Tiavi as I wanted to take some photos of the Hedychiums that grows there to add to a post that covers just that. But then in the vicinity of the Hedychiums I saw this plant growing in the tall grass that lined one side of the road and had to stop to take some photos. As I did not want to get all itchy from the grass I resorted to the zoom to take some close ups although I am debating going back to take some better photos.

If you are driving on the Cross Island Road you can find this shrub with its delightfully elegant flowers on the right hand side just before you get to the steep hill after which you will find the viewing station for the Papapapaitai Falls.

View of Cross Island Road at Tiavi leading towards Papapapaitai Fall

Above is close to where I turned off the Cross Island Road to photograph the shrub with lavender flowers. Below is the view on the left hand side where I parked on the verge. There is enough space to park so you can pretty much get the car off the road.

Above is the right hand side view across from where I parked the car. Just to the right of the two beautiful ferns which are the actual object of the photo, you can see some of the lavender flowers of the mystery shrub.

Driving a bit further down the road and then (below) just as you start going down the steep section.

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China Guizhou Province

In November 2009 I was in China and was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to visit a few places in Beijing and Guizhou Province. Here are some photographs of some of the places.

Unfortunately I did not keep a photo log and cannot give precise details as to the locations of most of the photographs. The photo above is of a statue that was along aone of the footpaths in huge natural reserve / park in Guizhou Province which has a waterfall  among other sights.

This is a view of a Miao Village in Guizhou Province that we visited.

We stopped briefly at a small park which had ducks and peacocks. When I was a child we visited a park that had peacocks in Brussels and everyone made admiring comments about the peacocks because supposedly they are vain creatures and if you tell them how beautiful they are they will start showing off and dsiplaying their tail feathers.
When I mentioned this everyone started doing that and soon enough the peacocks started strutting their stuff.

In one of the Parks we visited we saw a bunch of ducks congregating just under a small waterfall. I used the zoom to try and see what they were up to. They were acting very suspicious we decided they were having a secret conference close to the waterfall to foil any eavesdroppers.
I suppose that in reality they were just feeding on some shrimps or something.

I have no idea who this is supposed to be but I liked the style and the way the sculpture blended in with the surrounding nature.

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