To Market to Market Part 2 STREET MARKET IN MENGHAI Note monk on bike & other bike with bamboo panniers. Note the different dress and the baby carrier. There are several different styles in use in Yunnan. Cutting dough into noodles using a bike seat as a table. Frying dough into one of the many […]
Planes, Trains and Automobiles Map of China showing my route so far. Train from Xingtai in Hebei to Kunming in Yunnan (35 hours), bus to Jinhong (9 hours) and plane to Lijang (50 minutes + 60 minutes delay.) Map of Yunnan showing major cities I have visited to date, Kunming, Jinghong and Lijiang. Map of […]
To Market to Market … Part 1 I didn’t find the fat pigs for sale, but I did eventually see one small one being carried off in a cane basket. Unfortunately it happened too fast for me to record it. I visited about half a dozen markets in Jinghong and the surrounding villages. All were […]
A Taxi or Two Monday started early in the City of Eternal Spring (Kunming) with a taxi driver who didn’t know the way to the new South Bus Station and ended with in Thailand with one who didn’t know he’d reached my destination. I wasn’t really in Thailand, the closest borders are with Burma and Laos, […]
The “domestic” or chivalry isn’t dead and the shake down Yesterday morning I caught the bus on my way to a temple. The lunch time rush was starting so I got to stand just inside the front doors. I soon heard and saw a very heated discussion between an elderly man who was standing at the […]