Blogs from Yunnan, China, Asia - page 15

The Yi in Laoheipang township will partaking Dage on the 15th day in the Lunar march each year. From the book I read it said laoheipang is belong to Changning region, so i went there through Zhujie, but then find out it was actually inside the Weishan region over the Heihuijiang river. no transportation access so we need to hire a car took us to Laoheipang on the festival day. If I knew it was belong to Weishan region I would have access from Niujie where only 10km from town. Laoheipang is a very tiny Yi village inside the valley, tobacco seem to be the main crop nowaday, as in the old day rice was the main crops, no wondered the local said now there wasn't that many people attended as the tobacco plantation time is ... read more

I never like the Splash Water Festival as I hate to get wet! and...people just pour water over you aggressively in unreasonable mean. but this year I really don't want to stay in Yuanyang as the place getting more ugly and made me very uncomfortable. so...after some searching...I decided to go to Jinggu region where many Dai people resided. guess it should be less crowd and less commercial then in Jinghong. With the new road open up between Honghe and Yuanjiang, I can get to Jinggu in a day. I went up to Xiaojinggu see if anything interest, but the town was rather dull, tea seem the main business, you could see women prepared tea everywhere. in fact...Xiaojinggu was an important trading spot on the old tea-route long time ago...those were the day!!! I switched to ... read more

Geo: 22.0057, 100.81km down the road from our hotel in Jinghong is Manting Gongyuan. We didn't have high hopes but it turned out that this is a fantastic place to visit. Much quieter than other 'theme parks' in the area, the paths are surrounded by dense tropical plants and birdsong. We stumbled upon a Buddhist temple which took us completely by surprise. Isaac loved whacking the giant drums. Whilst enjoying the scenery we bumped into a chatty elderly chinese gentleman from America who followed us around for the rest of our visit. We watched a peacock dance show (people dressed as peacocks rather than actual peacocks themselves!)... read more

Geo: 21.9736, 100.816On Easter Day we flew from Kunming to Jinghong. It was Bill's Dad's first time on a plane. he is travelling with us (and slowly driving me insane despite never speaking a word to me!) Jinghong (the region capital) is charming. I love it! Here I can still find all the things I love about China:BBQ (shao kao) stalls everywhere all night long.Beer for 30pMilk tea (nai cha) stallsAvailable taxisBig squares for dancing and gathering at nightFruit sellersTraffic lights that tell you how long you have to cross Nonsense signs in EnglishLadies wearing t-shirts with 'juicy' written in the back.The palm tree lined roads are a bonus! (Though watch a coconut doesn't fall on your head!) Plus nobody's told me that Isaac is too cold! We visited the Virgin Forest Park. Once Bill had ... read more

Yuanyang Terrace is very famous for photography. Lots of shutterbugs visit there ever years. I dreamed to go there after saw beautiful pictures with or without process of Photoshop. Hani monitory are living on those terraces. They play there when they was kids. They are farming for their whole live. As per communication with those local villages during the trip. They were having a simple happy live with Terrace. Start working when Sun rising, and back with Sunset down. peaceful life. The nice views of Terraces were discovered by some photographers. The terrace is well known on world. More and more victors came. Kunming Export builds some buildings, gate of entrance for ticketing; also build nice view points near their terrace as the sight spots. Their lives have been interloped. The building and viewpoints that Kunming ... read more