Recently, I went up a mountain to the east of Wenzhou. Please forgive the great quantity of photos here. The fact is, while you may see 65 here, there were 70 more that aren’t. I hope that you can appreciate that this set represents an entire day, so your few minutes are still but a glimpse. One day, I’ll figure out how to have 8-photo sets. . . But not today.
I hope you enjoy them!
Happy day there! Welcome to the first set of photographs from my trip to Dali, Yunnan, China in the month of December, 2014. While there, I saw many wonderful things, visited with super keen people, and enjoyed myself immensely. Dali was once a kingdom, on the road between Tibet and what might be considered the Thai/Khemer regions, on down to the Champa kingdoms in what is now Vietnam. It was eventually sacked by the Mongols and has been Chinese ever since. These days, the people there are impressively creative with their wares and homes, and I hope to visit again someday. Truly an amazing place. Welcome to the first 61 of the 244 photo that made it through the gauntlet of review, to you.
Here you will find another set of photos from a trip to Dali, Yunnan, China. It was truly a fascinating trip. Featured is a gal I met at a hostel I was staying at over coffee one morning who was planning on seeing many of the things I was planning on seeing, so we decided to see them together. Also featured are three towers that have stood where they are since the 9th and 10th centuries. Absolute high-points of any visit out this way. As well, we ran across a man with a giant lathe, who was making stone art. We had a fun time checking out his shop, and yes, I bought a piece from him (not pictured) It was a very fun day.
Alright! So, here’s another 61 photos of Dali~ Again, wandering the area with the other happy tourist through some of these photos, we eventually went different directions because she’d already been to Xizhou, and I hadn’t. Wow, what a neat place! To the north of Dali just a bit. It had architecture that absolutely blew my mind. I rented a motorbike and rode up the coastline of Erhai Lake to get there. Look for the random image of a man using a blowtorch on the head of a goat… Ran into him on the street, just cookin’ some brain… Nothing to see here. . . By the way, Xizhou is also home to the Linden Center, pictured within. Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. Enjoy.
Yay! This is both the first and fourth installation of the Dali set. It is first, because I’m posting it so that when you experience the posts in order, this one will be last, due to how posts cycle in a blog.
This set contains a favored portrait of an old couple I saw as I was driving along the lakeside road between Dali and Xizhou. They were selling wares on the road and I stopped to buy some from them. Beautiful old couple. Also, I went to a park on a peninsula, and a tea-village. A fine day, indeed.
So, here it is. The first, fourth, and final (while initial) installation of the Dali set~ What I like to call Dali-4.
