That's a vendor on a bamboo raft, not someone trying to sell bamboo rafts. In this photo, taken on the Li River near Guilin in China,
I wonder what this man was wading in the Li River for. Moments earlier he'd been boldly striding through the water. Now, he was intently looking at something. Food perhaps?
I still find myself amazed at the stability of the bamboo rafts used in China such as this one being used by a man harvesting river weed.
This overhang in the limestone rack face was a significant swift nesting site. Out of harvesting season, there was no one working on this day. Bird's nest harvesting is a regulated industry and there were signs above the jetty here warning trespassers off. All the bamboo poles you can see here are used by the harvesters to reach the rock ceiling where the swifts build their nests.