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整理人: imstella(2001-01-14 19:15:52), 站内信件
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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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