I have to admit that the days in China aren't always chill and relaxing. And that's defenitely the case today. We had to wake up at 7 O'clock so we could leave the hotel at 9 am. Yesterday our guide Michael told us we couldn't have breakfast there and he gave us a box plenty of food. But surprise, surprise: it wasn't the breakfast we expected. No bread (or noodles if we wanted to started the day like Chinese do) but Oreo's! You know: those black coockies with wite cream in it. Well after a breakfast of oreo's, apples and milk (in my case water) our new guide brought us to New Dali City. I think it would have been nicer if it wasn't raining... But even when we're wet, it was funny to see the local Veldstraat. All the shops were located in little, old , Chinese houses and you could see people in traditional clothes shopping. We surprised the guide a little, I think 'cause we weren't the typical tourists he was used to : We didn't buy souvenirs in his friend's shop, we didn't really like the restaurant where we ate our lunch ( it was a western restaurant, but hello, when we're in China we wan't to eat local things ) and we asked many questions ( he couldn't even answer half of them) The only really great thing we've done today was seeing the local way to fish. Mister Zhao, our guide, brought us to a lake where we took a boat. When we were on the water, we followed a fishing boat and we could enjoy our own private fishingshow . people there use cormorants; those are big birds, to fish. They first of all put a rope around the cormorant's neck so it cannot eat the fish and then they release it in the water. When the birds catch a fish , they come back to the boat and give it to their master. As reward they get som little fish to eat. It was fantastic to see that ! It is pretty sad that that's the only great thing we've done today ... But there is somthing weird in the whole story: for all the things we've done yet Arthur and Lola didn't had to pay and now it was 150 Y each person. We also didn't had to pay at a ticket office but just to our guide. We don't really trust him so tomorrow mum's gonna check the prise of that boat trip. He'd better be honest ...
Hello everyone, First and last day in Lincang. Today we saw some villages again... One of them has got new houses from the governement winth red roofs. i think they didn't really like the colour because they put some dried grasses on it ! Most of the time our guide brings us to little, local restaurants where we eat our dinner. Yesterday there where some drunk Chinese next to us who came talk with my Dad (nobody understood what they said !) And one of them asked him to go with them to some dancers , we understood that because he made some queer dancemoves . We all laughed and my father said no with a smile. The Chinese seemed a little bit disapointed ... Mamy not ... This country surprises me every single day ! xxx, Camille
This night we stay in a hotel in Lancang. We've seen a lot of strange food today : ears , nose and tongs of pigs, chicken legs , frogs, fish heads, ... You can really see everything on a market in Lancang ! We ate in old ethnic village. We were the first Western people they saw in there restaurant ... So they sang and played guitar for us. And wow , it was so beautiful ! Those people learned to sing in the church ( they are Christian) We've never expected to find Christians in an old ethnic civilisation ... That was really contradictory .... In an other village, the Aka people,dressed me up with a local ceremonial outfit. It was a great honor to be dressed like the woman there. And all those clothes are completely handmade, with a lot of embroidery and pearls on it ! Everyone is so generous there ! When they see some strangers most of the people in Belgium ignore them and here you're treated like a prince ! Love this country so much ... Camille
p.s. pictures are maybe for tomorrow ... We can't get Internet on our pc here ... Only I-pad is working here ! Sorry we're really in an other world here !
Today we've visited a village and we've walked 2 hours amidst the forest and old thee trees and bushes. We saw the one they claim to be the oldest thee tree, over 800 years old. And people still harvest it's leaves. To see that special tree we had to walk in the jungle. It was so beautiful there ! The birds were singing, the butterflies flying and the cigals tsjirping. The village we crossed was nice but not as beautiful as the villages we saw yesterday. But we took some nice pictures of the children who lived there ... The monk of this village look like drunk ... I've never seen something like that , if I didn't know it was a monk, I would thought that he was a rapper or something like that ... Really ! Queer but also interessant day , xxx Camille
This is our first day in Jinghong in the Yunnan Province. We spent one day at Kunming in an awefull hotel (our bed sheeds were dirty, the bathroom was dirty, the floor was extremely dirty, the toilet didn't flush, you could smell the nicotine of all cigarets people smoked in the room, ...) But now we spent our second and last night in a beautiful hotel in Jinghong and everything is going fine. Today we've visited some local villages and we had luncj at a local restaurant there. Both we're amazing !!! In the village we've seen a women with traditional clothes (she went home to put them on just for us , she looked very proud when she showed them) The houses are made of wood and are also old. Jinghong is very close to Burma so everything is totally different. The farmers don't grow rice but rubber, for example. Oh, and also pinapple. We tasted some and it was delicious. The people who live here make their whisky themselves. It's actually maïsalcohol. We were lucky because they where just distillating it, it's amazing to see them doing that ! We even tasted it It's gonna be a shock when we're back in Belgium. Everything will be too normal to me ! Love Camille
Ik ben Camille
Ik ben een vrouw en woon in Heusden (België) en mijn beroep is mss journaliste, wie weet ;).
Ik ben geboren op 10/07/1999 en ben nu dus 25 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: scouts, muziek, schrijven.
totem: ourébi
quali: hisse les voiles
I have to admit that the days in China aren't always chill and relaxing. And that's defenitely the case today. We had to wake up at 7 O'clock so we could leave the hotel at 9 am. Yesterday our guide Michael told us we couldn't have breakfast there and he gave us a box plenty of food. But surprise, surprise: it wasn't the breakfast we expected. No bread (or noodles if we wanted to started the day like Chinese do) but Oreo's! You know: those black coockies with wite cream in it. Well after a breakfast of oreo's, apples and milk (in my case water) our new guide brought us to New Dali City. I think it would have been nicer if it wasn't raining... But even when we're wet, it was funny to see the local Veldstraat. All the shops were located in little, old , Chinese houses and you could see people in traditional clothes shopping. We surprised the guide a little, I think 'cause we weren't the typical tourists he was used to : We didn't buy souvenirs in his friend's shop, we didn't really like the restaurant where we ate our lunch ( it was a western restaurant, but hello, when we're in China we wan't to eat local things  "Wink"){kind=icon}
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