Dali

When I hop on the night train from Kunming to Dali, my sleeper is taken by a Chinese girl (Amy) since her friends have the other three beds. I take her bed and we end up playing cards and talking for a few hours since they all speak some English – they work together in Shanghai.

Since we get on so well, we decide to tour Dali together, so we hire a taxi for the day to see the sights.

Posing in front of the three pagodas at Dali with the Cang Shan mountains in the background. Left to Right: Wendy, Yours Truly, Amy, Vicky and Shaun (aka Gadget).

Since I’m travelling with Asian people, we take a lot of photos, Wendy is king at posing and must have taken close to 500 photos of herself on two cameras and her phone camera (props).

We visit the ancient town of Xizshou and play dress-ups. I’m supposed to look like one of the minority people in the town, but I think it looks more like Aladdin.

 

Dali has some of the weirdest souvenirs I’ve seen so far.

Lake Erhai (literal translation Ear Lake due to its shape) is very beautiful.

 

In the evening we catch a bus to Lijiang since my new friends only have three days for their trip and we’re having such a blast together.

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