Monday, October 09, 2006
A photo journal - Summer 2006, China - Part 5
Aug 20, 2006
An overnight bus took us to Kunming, the capital of Yunnan pronvince. At the bus station, we brushed our teeth, reorganized our baggage, fooled by a crook (Since the crook speaks chinese, I'd say I was fooled.) and got on another mini bus, a tour bus turned out to be, to go to Shilin (Stone forest) which was supposed to be our only stop in Kunming.
The first unexpected stop was a jade market. While others were shopping in the market, we spent a good 20 mins, maybe longer, whinning and watching this lady picking vegetable.
Another stop which I even cannot recall the name of it. Something to do with Yuanshikai's favourite mistress I guess.
We were told not to have any physical contact in this picture which was taken by a nun. Naive Yan almost believed this warm hearted nun was sent to make our horrible day slightly better. Naive Yan was wrong again. Another crook! She not only asked money from us after her enthusiastic explaination of the statue and those whatever were there, but also at the moment we turned around she started complaining to others how cheap we were for leaving her just 1 kuai. I speak chinese, I understand chinese, we were talking in chinese and I can hear you!
Finally we made it to Shilin at Beijing time 3pm. A park filled with artificial looking gigantic stones where security guard oversees everybody and makes sure there is no imappropriate behaviour. This was my first impression of shilin.
As you can see from the pictures, I got my smile back once we were away from the crowd and enjoyed this amazing creature made by nature peacefully.
An overnight bus took us to Kunming, the capital of Yunnan pronvince. At the bus station, we brushed our teeth, reorganized our baggage, fooled by a crook (Since the crook speaks chinese, I'd say I was fooled.) and got on another mini bus, a tour bus turned out to be, to go to Shilin (Stone forest) which was supposed to be our only stop in Kunming.
The first unexpected stop was a jade market. While others were shopping in the market, we spent a good 20 mins, maybe longer, whinning and watching this lady picking vegetable.
Another stop which I even cannot recall the name of it. Something to do with Yuanshikai's favourite mistress I guess.
We were told not to have any physical contact in this picture which was taken by a nun. Naive Yan almost believed this warm hearted nun was sent to make our horrible day slightly better. Naive Yan was wrong again. Another crook! She not only asked money from us after her enthusiastic explaination of the statue and those whatever were there, but also at the moment we turned around she started complaining to others how cheap we were for leaving her just 1 kuai. I speak chinese, I understand chinese, we were talking in chinese and I can hear you!
Finally we made it to Shilin at Beijing time 3pm. A park filled with artificial looking gigantic stones where security guard oversees everybody and makes sure there is no imappropriate behaviour. This was my first impression of shilin.
As you can see from the pictures, I got my smile back once we were away from the crowd and enjoyed this amazing creature made by nature peacefully.
