The whole trip to Yunnan has completed by half now. Its already the 5th day of the trip and I was in Dali. Today we will be heading towards LiJiang which is somewhere 200 Kilometers away from Dali.
Early in the morning as I walked out to the street, I saw this amazing scenic. Yeah, snow mountain. Don't you love living in a place like this one.
Our local tour guide in Dali. We were brought to see the Three Course Tea which is a Bai ethnics culture here. Dali is majority populated by the Bai ethnics.
The Bai ethnics traditional costume.
Some dance performance by the lovely girls. This one surely better than the 180 bucks show I spent the other day in Kunming. Yeah, and I get to taste the Three-Course-Tea too.
Yeah, not forget about the men too. It seems that rockers has emerged in China since thousands of years ago. I guess this is how they ROCK in the ancient time!
An odd looking vehicle. This vehicle are common. It was used in all sort of way ones could imagine.
Right after lunch, we start our journey to LiJiang. It takes another 4 hours drive along the 200 km mountains route climbing another 300 meters. LiJiang is located about 2500 meters above sea.
You know, a good toilet are hard to find along this route. It would takes more than 2 hours until you reach the next petrol station with a heavenly-constructed-toilet. There is once we stopped on a road side public toilet and I got this feedback.
Aunty:'NiaMah! The toilet have no door, no flush and the smell could kill me even before I enter the toilet ar! Sumomre they want me 50 cent!'
Well, thats true. In the isolated area here, the toilet just don't have doors. Probably they like to chat with each other when they do-it that time, can compare who make a bigger shit kua.
Basically, the bus driver will stop at certain area along the journey which have a better toilet (got door and flush one la). But you just got to ask him when was the next stop, else you will end up in the hell-kind-of-toilet here.
In the middle of the journey we stopped by at a shop selling Jade and Silver accessory. Chinese are famous with its jade but the best quality of jade does not comes from China. These high quality jade actually comes from Burma (Myanmar) which is located just next to Yunnan province. Quality of jade is determined by its hardness. The harder the jade, the better the quality.
Finally, we are approaching LiJiang. Thats the land mark of LiJiang, the YuLong snow mountain.
We head straight to the Hei Long Tan(Black Dragon pool) garden in LiJiang.
This is our local tour guide in LiJiang, Xiao Hu.
She looks really familiar ya know.
Yah, doesn't she looks like our famous Malaysian comedian Saiful Apek ! haha... the Cicak Man leh.
OK, I don't know whether SHE become a HE or what ever, everytime I look at her, I'd sure laughed myself.
Some beautiful scenic in the Black Dragon Pool garden. There are lots of colorful flowers here in the garden.
Lots of fish in the pond.
The mystical Mahjoong Tree. It is said that who ever touch this tree, he/she will get good luck in playing mahjoong!
Wait, look at the man who touched the tree.
Eventually the man who touched the odd looking tree transformed into the legendary The Thing in the Fantastic 4! God is he lucky!
More beautiful scenic.
A very cute looking little girl. Thats her mother who was making a living selling carved stone and gems. She carved the stone herself while some of it was carved by her father.
Sakura of China. Looks beautiful.
Mao Tan flower.
After visiting the Black Dragon Pool, we had our dinner in LiJiang's town before check in into the Hotel. LiJiang has its own famous Ancient Old City too and it was even greater than the one I visited in Dali.
Read on for the nice scenic photo of the famous Ancient Old City of LiJiang.
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They also taught us how to determine the jade quality by knocking the jade with another piece of jade. A good jade will create a very sharp and crisp ping sound while lower quality jade creates a dull solid sound.
of course there may be other way to determine a good jade which we don't know.
Visiting jade gallery is the "de-facto" place to go whenever you visit China. It's everywhere in China and you cannot run away from visiting it because it's part of the tour itinerary.
Btw, IMO, I notice most of the photos don't look "smooth". May I know how you actually resize them?
I resize them only with the MS Office photo editor. Thats the only program available. PhotoShop could do better result but I don't have the time though.
you can try picasa, a free software from google. you can batch resize at one go, so it saves your time. don't worry, your photos are nice! keep it up!
Ipohchai, you got a good sense of humour! Make my funny bones tickle... haha...
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"Quality of jade is determined by its hardness. The harder the jade, the better the quality"
Good statement for makcik, Ultra Sang. :)
Very humor of this visit day! The mahjong man! Hahahh...