Thursday, March 17, 2011

Outlook for Lijiang

Well I was very excited to hear that on last Sunday's Amazing Race episode the group went to Kunming and Lijiang!
I haven't seen it yet but I thought it was exciting!
 
Ok speaking of Lijiang here is what I plan on doing, and when I get back I will have beautiful pictures and a detailed account of my first adventures on my own!
 
So I leave Friday at 22:00 and take a sleeper train to Lijiang, then I will spend Saturday and Sunday exploring Old Town.
Monday is the trip to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain where I plan to rent a donkey and ride up the mountain.
Tuesday I plan to visit Yak Meadow (yes it is a meadow of yak :) I know my family will be excited, I am!)
Wednesday I will go to Shigu town, a small rural village at the First Bend in the Yagntze River.
I will stay there for the night and go back to Lijiang Thursday and that night take the train to Kunming.
 
I am VERY excited, and I hope this blog is going well because I haven't read one, so I dont know what I am supposed to do.
 
Not much has happened this week. Today we went to Walmart....that did not go well...
Its a Thursday afternoon and it was so CROWDED and expensive and looked nothing like Walmart.
 
A few days ago I went exploring in old town Kunming... where I found a Dairy Queen, McDonalds and Papa Johns... the Old town is falling into disrepair but has become a great place to find vendors and shops.
It reminded me a lot of Canton :)
 
I have taken to talking to people on buses and in shops and I feel that my understanding of Chinese is improving, though speaking is still a little troublesome because my vocabulary is limited.
Until next week!
April 

1 comment:

  1. field of yak? you would be excited :)
    also, walmart? expensive? that makes no sense to me.what's your level of chinese now, do you think?

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