Characters of the Melikawat ruins

Local people provide a donkey cart service to the ruins covering the roughly 1km distance from the gate to the ruins. The ruins are near the white jade river where people search the river for jade stone. Using machinery was banned until recently, but the river is now mined with large excavating diggers.

The young girl on the right expressed her opinion of us deciding not to use her transport by spitting (not at us) in disgust.

We were followed by three youngsters - two are in the second picture. They became pests during a talk and our group eventually walked back to the car - without really seeing anything of the ruins except the first mound we saw.