Making giant bamboo baskets

One of my favorite thing from my adventures in china were the giant wicker or bamboo baskets that the vendors and others had as such:


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Paul Woloshansky, a fellow cyclist and well travelled bike tourer saw my little write up on Bicycle Fixation and sent me these spectacular photos of men in North Vietnam making giant bamboo baskets for moped panniers. Paul also has some nice work bike photos on cyclofiend, including this well loaded basket seller bike. Paul can be reached at "bikwalla at telus dot net". Thanks for the photos Paul.



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Excellent, eh? If any all of youse dear readers have relevant excellent travel pics I would be glad to post them if they pass my highly subjective and variable standards of excellence. See more of my Chinese bike of the day posts here and here, or try the chinese bike label for all posts related.