May 27th to 30th, bank to Kunming

There was the guide picked us and took us showing us a place that they manufacture textile material from Bamboo.....whao, that is new to me.....looked all good, but I still didn't buy anything, for my luggage had already over weight all the way here and I have to go back to Seattle yet.....

 

Took May 28th to rest, after loaded and sorted the pictures, Skype to Bob, I went out to walk around

and for local food, and found this big hall of local food capital..... just that all portion are for more than one person....and all things were hot....even I had asked no hot spice it was still way over my ability of enjoy them calmly.....but still testy and good......

After tummy got full, I've got me a ticket to see the local dance in the Art Theater...

Yunnan-Yin-Shiang.

 

The artists were all young.....

with matured movements but the singing in very young voices.....kind of mixed feeling but they were very good. 

This peacock dance was the main attractive for this whole evening's show, yet all performances were all great, to my concern. 

The next day, May 29th, I went to Shi-shan (West Mountain) by city bus, thinking places can go by bus that would not have to hike to far up and down.......

Wrong......

For this trip I had left my hotel room for over eight hours, and I was on the cable car, electric bus and only walked down hills on the stairs....

But it was good to see Dien Hu, I would think it was the largest lake around Kunming.

 

Look like it has a large area that is not deeper than couple meters, like Lake Bangweulu......Have I already miss my village in Makasa??? 

On the cable car up I saw how large the out skirt Kunming city was..... 

I walked from the very top down, all were stair cases..... 

down to more flat areas there were temples those were reconstructed after damages done in Culture's Revolution, plus their extensions from the originals......still impressive and beautiful....

The trails were amazingly beautiful and wonderful, if not the thunders in the distance, I would not mind to slow down on coming out of it...... 

out of the last temple, I turned around to have a last look of this gate and just noticed the sign on the top said "Came here for what".....yeah, came here for what that I had to rush back out....

well, I don't want to walk down hill in the rain.....good enough reason???

The rain did not come after all.  They really needed it.

 

May 30th, the hotel let me keep the room till 3pm so I went to Jing-Dien (Gold Palace) again, by city bus, that I was there once on May 19th.

I checked on map and went to those areas that I had not visited.

 

the warm nursery for all sorts of flowers but most of them were not in the blooming....

Found this strange orchid???

Back to the main part of bell tower....

Met a lovely couple they were taking pictures of one another.....when I offered to take a picture of both of them.....they were so happily offered me my picture with my camera and wished me a nice journey home......

I went around to the back of the Gold Palace.....

The sculpture supposed to be Chen, Yun-Yun......

 on the way out, I took all these imitation of enlarged antics that I have seen in the museum......

 

The camel was still there, but this time he was standing up.....a person just took a picture with him??? Have a good day on the cemented ground, buddy.

The first squirrel on this trip in Yunnan..... 

Well, Bye-Bye Kunming......Bye-Bye Yunnan.....

The tour company people took me to airport two hours after this picture had taken. 

It was an eventless journey back to Seattle.

 

Okay, this is the end of my blog of   Cheng @ Zambia   which I started two weeks before I had arrived in Zambia and now I close it three and a half weeks after I left Zambia. 

 

Thanks for all your viewing.

 

Cheng      June 4, 2013

May 26th, not yet done

After we had treated a nice afternoon back to Zang-Shieh River, right below from Yulong Glacier, I thought this time we were really done with our tour on this trip, but the driver/guide still took us back to town and dropped us at a small 400 year old park that had been beautiful before this five year draught, called He-Lung-Tein. 

Hau emailed me this picture he took with his camera.

If there were water in it, this scene could be as pretty as Shi-Hu in Hang-zou, of course in way smaller scare. 

since not much of it now.....I stated to take pictures from the side of garbage cans, that has local writing next to Chinese writing.

People were amazed on my silliness.....Taking picture from a garbage can??? 

We ate a quick supper out side of the park and another driver came take us, dropped me first at train station to Kunming, then Hau to airport back to Beijing.

Lijiang train station.

I first seen these people with back packs, and set next to them, quickly we started conversations.

They were both from Fu-Jien province originally. James is working in Wu-shi, Ling-Ling is studying in Kuang-Zou. They had just met in the eight days hiking somewhere near the Glacier, I have never heard of, that they will email me those info for my next trip there......yeah, right......at least not too soon. 

James had already emailed me for my newest plan of visiting the villages that my parents' families came from - An-shie and Yun-tsung in Fu-Jien Province.  Hmm.....

 

I have shocked these people with my old age, again......well, just don't know how to behave like one...

When the train came, they had to escort me to my section of the train before they went on to each of theirs. How sweet you can expect people around you to be!!!

 

I am truly thankful for all these good people I have met and shared the journey with in is trip.

 

Cheng     June 4, 2013

 

May 26th - Yulong Glacier

Sorry, if you don't read Chinese....this map got my head straighten up on how all places I visited in this trip. 

Been seeing these peaks on and off in last two, three days..... 

now I see them all.......thanks to the good weather for us. 

 and no wind on this little pond......for the reflection of the mountains. 

Hau was nice to remind me to have a picture in my own camera. 

Naxi is proud of they had kept their own writing.....but don't know what these all about.... 

A cable car took us up from 2800 meter elevation to 3800 meter.....that oxygen can becoming needed, for it was almost straight up.....and more staircase to climb another thousand meter up from here. 

The Z on the upper right hand corner was the stair case we were going....thankfully that we had the oxygen can from yesterday for the guide was giving up on us to press on purchase things..... 

Sun was high and hot....trail ended here and there is another thousand meter to be up at the peak....

 

When I was young I love to read the marshal art faction nobles written by "Jing Yun", some of them made believe that one practiced marshal art at the top of Yulong Glacier came out to be the toughest one......

I can't believe I could have seen this scene by my own eye.....ever......YEAH.....

 

 

Down from the glacier, Hau and I got dropped back in town and told that we had to find our way for lunch and some place to rest till time to go to airport for Hau and to train station for me......

No way to ask or argue with these guides, I called Kunming tour company to ask what do I do from now till my train time....."Hang up and I will call you back." I was told.

 

After using the restroom, Hau hurried to me, "Don't worry and don't talk to any guides here, he is mad that we called Kunming (he didn't say it was me, a very nice person Hau is). I have taking care of the whole thing now.  For now they are taking us to lunch and will see what is the next."

The guide also rushed to me and I spoke before him, "I was just check what is on my schedule I have clearly said that it was not any complaints." 

He gave me a side way look and told us to get back to vehicle and went for lunch.

Whao, only for two of us, there were four large dishes of food and rice at side.

Good, we needed it all after that high elevation hike.

After lunch, we got brought back to down the mountain from Yulong Glacier to see this part of

 river that is going to joint Jing-sha-jiang, the upper part of Yang-tse River.....

I would think these were the dammed up stream with man made water falls, but done in a beautiful way.... and many layer of them.....Hau and I walked them all........ 

Yaks were dressed up for pictures.....again, I took pictures from the side only..... 

even the models all dressed up, hired by photographers....

we were told that to touch the water there would bring luck......so we will see.... 

If these were really all man made sceneries, than they have done a great job.

 

Cheng     June 4, 2013