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Zhongdian to Xiancheng
the first part of the ride was 7hr long on a dirt road going up and down numorous mountain ridges. the bus avrages 50km/hr on avrage on a good day so you can calculate what the distance was. between Zhongdian and Xiancheng there are no towns at all so only this kind of scenary hi we will try to catch up the blog after being in the remote parts of Yunnan and Sichuan for almost a week. we will let the pictures do the describing and the commentary will be on stuff you cannot see.
China is a culinary experience.
let us describe what we eat in the last 5 days:
Day I:
- some crackers for bfast.
- 3 cookies for lunch
- for 1USD each we had local food: white rice, fried zukkiny (most restaurants with English menus call it "pumpkin"), raw potatoes, fried Chinese cabbage in its own water (S'CHI)
Day II:
- 2 cookies and some fresh bread and 2 mini PESEK ZMAN for bfast.
- 1 piece of local chocolate for lunch on the road
- Hagit eat rice noodle soup for dinner (Yaron was sick)
Day III:
* Hagit eat 1 tomato and pieces of the bread from the previous day for bfast. (Yaron was sick and eat 2 bananas)
* both eat together 2 apples, 2 oranges and some peanuts for lunch
* Hagit fried Chinese cabbage in its own water (S'CHI) and rice for dinner (Yaron couldn't stand it anymore)
Zhongdian to Xiancheng
this is taken on the highest pas of the day (+4000m). every time we passed a 'pass' the driver and local passengers cried out and through prayer plags out of the bus on to the 'pass' Day IV:
- No bfest so not to be sick
- some crackers for lunch on the road
- some vegetables on the BBQ and 1 burger for dinner. see photos below. Hagit got sick!
Day V:
- No bfest so not to be sick
- some crackers and coke for lunch on the road
- arrived powerless in Chengdu and eat 1 big bowl of spaghetti Bolognase each
we are loosing weight in china. Hagits pant are now too big for her. She is happy 😊
How trucks and buses run?
trucks and buss here run not only on flue but also on water. every hr the bus stops near a hose and the driver waters the wheels and engine thoroughly. when you see a truck going up or down the mountains it leave a trail of water for the breaks like a snail
Dams
if the trucks run on water why not the whole country? on every river their is either an electric dam in place or one being build. We don't mean the and extra large dams like 3-mile gorge which is famous for transferring
Zhongdian to Xiancheng
only when we were 1/2 an hr from Xiancheng did we start to see rice fields 1.2million people. we mean small personal dams and medium-sized city dams on every river and stream.
Movies?
on the last bus we had a television with movies. all the way (7hr) we saw 3 similar movies. All of them were war movie comedies against the Japanese where the Japs get killed to the left and right by the Chinese. the Chinese men/boys/old Ladies find funny ways of killing the Japs like in "home alone". needless to say no Chinese ever gets hurt.
in one movie the Americans, shown as cowboys and playing baseball, join the Chinese side to side in the fun 😊
Musika
The IPOD is the best invention since the cellular phone! we use it on the long bus rides. we use the "Shuffle" mode that randomizes the songs (~2600) so we never know what we will hear next and we almost never hear the same song again. We have 2 earphones with individual volume control. We also bought small speakers and we use it in the guesthouse room.
Although only half of the music we have is in Hebrew we find ourselves listening to Israeli music most of
Xiancheng
the inhabitans here are all Tibetian. the houses are made like little fortaces. only the front of the house has windows and the windows start from the second floor only. the time. the long bus rides allow us time to think and realize how diverse and unique our own culture is. try explaining to someone who is not Israeli the complexities of "BALADA LE OZEV HA'KIBUTZ" or why our eye water when we here "HA'TISMA KOLI". how can 6 million people (like 1 city in China) create both Hava Albetshtain and the Jews and everything in between?
On one of the random shuffles both of us were hit in the stomach from hearing for the first time "ZE LO ANI" by HA'DAG NEHASH.
Tip for next weekend
I think it was Dan Toren who wrote and Dana Berger sang
You need to walk in your own town as if it was as if it was a foreign city. sit in a cafe and wait to see what happens
. try it in you own town this weekend...
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Lee Kay
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A big dilemma
On the one hand, I want to shoot you both for being there while I'm here having to work for a living (not to mention all the rest of the shit). On the other hand, I want you to keep on travelling and taking photos of those places I'm not likely to visit in the coming years (decades?). In the meantime, since I have no way of shooting you through the web, you're spared. PS. how long was the night picture exposure? It's incredibly steady. Also the sky pictures are great (and the little boy too). PPS. I vote for the chicken-burger. You know my take on local food vs. fast food (will make you sick even faster than you can eat it).