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整理人: dannylu(2001-01-24 00:19:42), 站内信件
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★原文转载自English版dynadino的《YUNNAN TRIP 98-2》★
2nd day
After a whole night’s bumping, we reached Dali in the early morning. It was still cloudy
and lightly raining. We checked the trip line at the station and
found out that buy a one-day-trip ticket is the most convenient
way to have a look at all the famous resorts. The tourism of Dali
is well developed and one can easily find out any agency afford
almost the same service and the price is reasonable. We chose one
and started the trip on one tourism yacht.
Erhai is called because the shape is like being’s ear and all the
big lake here is named sea. It was so cold and cloudy that day;
everybody stayed in the cabin. The speed of the yacht was too fast
in that kind of weather because when I was out I feel the big wind
almost blow me frozen. I can saw nothing in front of the way but
the fog. Besides the way, I can see little hills. So, I believe
Erhai’s shape is just like a banana.
We anchored the yacht along the shore several times in the morning,
the resorts are normal and the vendors crowded everywhere. The only
interesting thing was the song and dance show with the three cups
of tea ceremony. Bai nationality is one have already assimilated
by Han, but it still has its own tradition to welcome guests—three cups of tea. They named it very suitable, the bitter tea,
sweet tea and aftertaste tea. The beautiful Bai girls—called golden
flowers sent us the cup of tea at the intervals of the show. The
show is well, too.
After we had lunch, we reached the first resort that is famous to
everybody—the butterfly spring. Of course, there was no butterfly
now and the water in the spring is not real spring water I think.
What interesting is the architect style. What stand on the ridge of
the roof are not the sons of dragon as normal but a monster with a
fish tail like head and frog legs.
Then the traffic tool changed to bus and we reached the famous
three towers. The resort is the symbol of Yunnan’s tourism.
Though I don’t think it is
anything excellent because we Chinese made too many miracles,
took a picture to prove we had been there is necessary.
The bus kept going back to the start point and met the last view—Ancient City in the middle way. From friend’s advice, we said bye-bye to the tour guide and tried to find a hotel first. There will
be a world gardening exhibition hold in Yunnan next year, so the
government ordered Dali to rebuild the main street in the Ancient
City. When we reached City, the main street was all turned to mud
and dug out a huge groove. Perhaps because we dressed not like
normal Chinese, a local boy showed a piece of paper with English
words. Great, it was a hotel’s introduction. 24 hours hot water,
it is enough! Also, the price RMB50 for double is even lower than
I excepted. What’s more attracted me is that it is located in the
famous foreigners’ street; the bars along the street have already
be a miracle in the travelers.
We passed the streets by the boy’s guide and saw one or two
buildings were being dismantled. The buildings were all in the
local style and no one is higher than two floors. I am happy about
it because too many resorts’ government wants to flatter the
tourists by constructing higher hotels but destroy the original
view. When we reached the foreigners’ street there was another
kind of scene. English painted all around and almost all the stores
afford the long distance phone and fax service, some of them afford
email service even. The sharp contrast of modern and ancient is so
harmony, yes, harmony is the only word I want to use.
The hotel is at one end of the street, several small department
buildings and bamboo kiosks. The environment is exact what I
expected. There was about two hours before the sky going to dark,
so we decided to have a rest after shower. Because we were so tired
after two whole days journey, we fell in sleep soon.
The sky was dark when we awoke and sprinkling. Because we had
nothing to do but enjoy the leisure life of local people, we went
shopping hungry. A friend had told me before there is a small gift
store hold by a Hong Kong people and his local wife and when she
went there it had been closed. The store is very famous because it
sells only handicrafts made by the owners and the opening time is
irregular and the owners accept no bargaining. So, when I reached
the store named KOZMIK and found it was still opened I thought the
trip should be a lucky one. The handicrafts are really unique; I
picked up some for friends and of course for myself, too. What made
me feel sad was that after that when we shopping in other stores we
forgot bargaining, too.
Time passed by when we shopping until our stomachs started yelling.
We chose the SUN SHINE CAFE randomly because we knew we can try
another the next morning. In the cafes of foreigners’ street you
can find out Gordon’s gin and Jack Daniel’s whisky easily,
so it is not surprise that almost all the owners can speak a little
English and all the menu is bilingual. We just wanted to choose
some special food so, we were definitely right, we chose the
delicious barley gruel and fried Rushan—local made cheese.
I can not remember all the food but these two are enough for a
romance memory. One foreigner was playing guitar lightly, the light
was soft, the food was delicious, the partner was beautiful and I
was totally fled from the routine work. At that moment, I think all
the hard work is worth for exchanging such a moment.
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