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
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