Shilin: Rock Park

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I took a flight from Jiuzhaigou to Kunming. M and I parted at the airport. The best Y900 spent ever. Saved me a 10 hour bus ride and who knows how long train ride. I'm in Kunming, Yunnan now!

I visited Shilin ("Rock Forest") in Kunming today. This area is 2 hours away from Kunming and I took the organized car from the hotel (Y70 round trip). The entrance to Shilin is Y140 (Y100 with your expired Bruin ID)! Shilin is a karst rock forest that was under ocean 270 million years ago and water made these formations. It's quite interesting. The rocks reminded me of Huangshan and Guilin. They are pretty and interesting, but I wasn't totally impressed. I was annoyed that the place looked more like a "rock park" than a rock forest.

There were so many tourists at Shilin. People everywhere - worse than Huangshan. Thoroughly annoying.

I had Yunnan famous "Across the Bridge" noodles for dinner. I forgot my camera, but will take a picture next time I eat it. It's a big bowl of boiling broth and you dump in 10+ different ingredients into the bowl and stir in cooked noodles. Tasty!

I was going to go to Yuanyang tomorrow, but I've changed my plans to go up to Dali instead. I'm dreading the bus ride. From Dali I'll head up to Lijiang and Zhongdian (Shangrila).

I bought a ticket to Thailand! Going to meet a friend there and travel a little around SE Asia for two weeks! 😊 Yay!

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Photos

Shilin Rock Forest
Window Rock

Shilin Rock Forest
Almost didn't take this photo since it was so crowded!

Shilin Rock Forest
See all the people in my way?! :)

Shilin Rock Forest
Yi women dancing at the rock park.

Shilin Rock Forest
Rock park.

Comments

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looks fun! that's a lot of tourists!