Dali: Day 1

After English Corner Saved my life and I was finally able to get into my apartment. The next day we set off for Dali! Dali is a very famous city in the Yunnan Providence, about 300 years ago the Dali Kingdom covered the entire providence of Yunnan and even parts of Vietnam. Now whats left of it is a preserved historical city, with a lot to do and plenty of good sites. From where we are its about six hours by bus to Dali, so we took a one hour bus to Kunming and five hour bus ride from Kunming to Dali.


We Spent the first day venturing into the Ancient city of Dali, here on the left is the South gate.




I went he wo de hao zhong guo pengyou Leo and Felix. (With my good Chinese friends) Leo I had met at English corner on campus and Felix I met through Leo since he is Leo's roomate. It really was because of Felix that we went on this trip on the first place since he is a native from Dali. We owe a lot to Felix since he showed us around the city and also helped us save a lot of money. Not to mention the fact that his family bought us dinner twice and put us up in a Hotel room the last night.









On the left is Felix and on the right is Leo.









Here is another important Person I have named the boat lady. Every where we went this lady followed us through the entire Ancient city of Dali trying to sell us a boat trip to some Island somewhere.









After Leo stopped stealing hats from little boys we decided we needed to go get our own Chinese Cow Boy Hats!







Here is me standing in front of the entrance to foreigner street.




















The characters read yang ren jie or westerner/foreigner street.












Here is the view from the North gate over looking the temples and the mountains.
















What can I say! Just look at those cool guys!













Here is a view of Er Hei Lake also from the North Gate!










































































So that was Day 1 at Dali in a Nut Shell, Day 2 we went to the 3 pagodas and the temples that are in the picture above, but that will be another post!