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Sorry, but there will be no pictures soon, because we are in a very remote place. We've been 4 days in Kunming. Kunming is yet just another Megalopolis, so we tried to spend as much time outside it as possible. We went to Shilin, a stone forest, and to Xi Shan, the western hills. On those two wonderful days we had, as some people call it, "bad China days". It's hard to explain exactly what that means, but we'll try. It may also satisfy Tzvika's request (Nirit's father) to write also about what our feelings are and not only about our advantures. So here goes:
The Chinese people can be very nice, when they want to. Nevertheless they can be very nasty. They tend to lie, sometimes, when they just don't think it's important to tell you the truth, or when they think they just can take your money without too much harm. Nirit says that they don't really lie, but just don't tell you the whole truth, or just happen to omit very important facts. When you want to go to Shilin, for instance, and you ask how long is the ride, they tell you it's 2 hours. What they don't tell you is that actually it takes 4.5 hours, including 3 stops, one for buying pearls and other jewlary, one for visiting a God-forsaken buddhist temple, and the third one for lunch, 1.5 KM outside the Shilin Park entrance!!! This was the first time that we realy lost our patiance and showed the chinese woman that was in charge what we really had in mind, and it wasn't a pretty site, i'll tell you that.
What we're trying to say is that this trip sometimes can get harder than a regular trip. Sometimes you feel that you need to put some work into things to get what you want. It can be exhausting, but most of the time we try to look at it as if it's just part of the fun, part of the entire experience.
On a more optimistic note, we left the Yunnan province, and its wonderful blue sky, and headed towards the GuiZhou province. Here we feel like the first white men who crossed Africa. It's a very untoured province, which makes things a little more complicated. This province is very poor and is home to a range of minoraties, like the Miao and the Dong. But so far so good - we've been staying for 2 nights at a very small village in the area - the smallest place that we've been to in China yet - and the atmosphere is great. It's an unbelievable experience to see how these people live and how the daylife looks like. We'll post lots of pictures when we'll be able to. In fact, we were really amazed to find out that there is Internet connection here. I guess the globalization hasn't skipped anyone...
That's all for now. We'll be here for about a week and then travel to a far more travelled area - Guilin and YangShuo. Catch up in a week!
Sorry, but there will be no pictures soon, because we are in a very remote place. We've been 4 days in Kunming. Kunming is yet just another Megalopolis, so we tried to spend as much time outside it as possible. We went to Shilin, a stone forest, and to Xi Shan, the western hills. On those two wonderful days we had, as some people call it, "bad China days". It's hard to explain exactly what that means, but we'll try. It may also satisfy Tzvika's request (Nirit's father) to write also about what our feelings are and not only about our advantures. So here goes:
The Chinese people can be very nice, when they want to. Nevertheless they can be very nasty. They tend to lie, sometimes, when they just don't think it's important to tell you the truth, or when they think they just can take your money without too much harm. Nirit says that they don't really lie, but just don't tell you the whole truth, or just happen to omit very important facts. When you want to go to Shilin, for instance, and you ask how long is the ride, they tell you it's 2 hours. What they don't tell you is that actually it takes 4.5 hours, including 3 stops, one for buying pearls and other jewlary, one for visiting a God-forsaken buddhist temple, and the third one for lunch, 1.5 KM outside the Shilin Park entrance!!! This was the first time that we realy lost our patiance and showed the chinese woman that was in charge what we really had in mind, and it wasn't a pretty site, i'll tell you that.
What we're trying to say is that this trip sometimes can get harder than a regular trip. Sometimes you feel that you need to put some work into things to get what you want. It can be exhausting, but most of the time we try to look at it as if it's just part of the fun, part of the entire experience.
On a more optimistic note, we left the Yunnan province, and its wonderful blue sky, and headed towards the GuiZhou province. Here we feel like the first white men who crossed Africa. It's a very untoured province, which makes things a little more complicated. This province is very poor and is home to a range of minoraties, like the Miao and the Dong. But so far so good - we've been staying for 2 nights at a very small village in the area - the smallest place that we've been to in China yet - and the atmosphere is great. It's an unbelievable experience to see how these people live and how the daylife looks like. We'll post lots of pictures when we'll be able to. In fact, we were really amazed to find out that there is Internet connection here. I guess the globalization hasn't skipped anyone...
That's all for now. We'll be here for about a week and then travel to a far more travelled area - Guilin and YangShuo. Catch up in a week!
posted by Nirit & Shaul at
20:52
4 Comments:
I sympathized with your story how people in yunnan try to rip you off but that's the problem with all the turist site and the people that were corrupted by western money. If you get to know Chinese that got nothing to do with tourists you're amassed to see how nice and generous they are.
Well, have fun at Kaili and stuff!
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Anonymous, at 18:25
Hey guys:
I just got off the phone with Tzvika who's going to pick up Anna in Jerusalem where she arrived last week. I told him to give her a kiss and hug from me and he told me to give one to you Nirit! It's a small world. Wish I were there to do it in person. I'm please to have your blogspot available to me now so I can follow you around. Shabbat Shalom.
Avi
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Anonymous, at 15:49
It seems you are having the best experience ever. When i think of that, it looks like a movie- you two are travelling in nature, everything is green and calm. very calm. I just cant hear the soundtrack. What would you recommand?
Have even greater fun,
shahar.
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Anonymous, at 21:53
i toured guizhou, sure can relate to the first white man in africa feeling. did you visit xin yi ?
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