My Yunnan Trip

I'm back!! and here i am, back to my home, sitting infront of my computer, updating my blog!!
Yunnan at a glance
Area: 394000 sq.km.
Capital: Kunming
Population: Approximately 41 millions in 2001
Language: Mandarin. A local dialect is also spoken, not very much understood by outsiders. Very little English is understood outside large hotels. Religion: Buddhism, Taoism, Islam and Christianity.
Climate: Varies widely according to latitude and elevation, from subtropical in the south, to high tundra in northern areas.
Local Time: GMT +8
Currency: Chinese Renminbi (RMB) is the medium of exchange. The basic unit of RMB is yuan, in denominations of 100, 50, 10, 5, 2 and 1. The yuan is divided into 10 jiao, which is further divided into 10 fen.
Credit cards: Accepted in large hotels only.
Travellers cheques: Travellers cheques and currencies may be exchanged into Yuan in major banks and hotels only
Electricity: 220V, 50 Hz
Nightlife: There is no recognised nightlife suitable for tourists.
Yunnan was fun, you can shop everywhere and everyday, hehe, sad though i didn't bought alot... their stuffs were cheap, and you can bargain until you satisfied with the price, if you don't bargain with them, you'll go and knock your head off when you found out the price others' paid for the exactly same item. Bargain also required special skills in China you know, first, you make the price very very low, like about a quarter of the price shopkeeper offered, if they refused, then you go a bit more higher until a certain level, if they insisted not, then you leave, most of them will call you back and give you the price you wanted for... sadly I don't have the skill and i'm very soft-hearted in this kind of thingy. Thank god there are some people who are very good in bargaining, so they help me out. hehe :)
Food, quite nice but they were in huge propotion, and none of us manage to finish up those food, what a waste.... but according to my tour guide, in China, if the food are finished, meaning they don't served enough food for us and then later they will get scolded. weird culture...
Toilets, thing i must say, OH MEEE GAWD!!! without doors!! not all la, some... well, i avoid to go in this kind of toilet.... =.=''''''' but those china people feel nothing at all, they go in like no one there, i'm speechless about that.....
People, they spit everywhere, not a good habit and i think it's kinda..... disgusting and somemore, there are a lot of smokers in china, you can smell the cigarrete smell everywhere... pity my poor nose, like torturing my nose with the smoke...
okay, apart from that, china was a nice place with a lot of scenic spot. Shi Ling or stone forest, a 5 star rated scenic spot in china, one of the world heritage, over 200 million years ago, it was a vast sea, years past and the geographic sturcture changed and so the stone forest formed. You'll be amazed by the naturally formed rocks, no doubt. Nature is the top-notch sculptor that carved out the shape of the rocks. Don't believe me?? later i'll put up the pic and let you guys see yourself as picture speaks more than words.
Another scenic spot, jiu xiang. it's a cave with 336 steps inside, the stalactite and stalagmite amazingly formed in different shapes and you can see waterfall inside the cave somemore, cool ain't it?? it's a very rare case to have a waterfall inside a cave and here got one. oh, and the fish inside the cave's river are blind, could you believe that??? The fish had eyes many years ago, but since they live in cave without sunlight, so they degenerated and eventually became blind today.
Jade dragon snow mountain, also one of the world heritage, more than 6000 metres in height but human beings only manage to reach 5000 something and cannot go further up anymore. so it's still a virgin mountain, not yet conquered by man. The top of the mountain 365 days covered with snow. When i gone up the mountain, i noticed that the snow is no longer snow, it had became ice because of the low temperature..
The old town in Lijiang, it was there since more than 500 years ago, also a world heritage, well preserved until today and it had became a commercial centre where the houses inside has been occupied and turned into shops.
Jade water village, has the clearest water in China. The only place in China where the water remain unpolluted. The water clear until the state that you can see the bottom of the pond. And they breed salmon fish inside, salmon fish can only live in very clean water and low temperature. So if they can live in Jade water Village, meaning the water is really really clean.
All the scenic spot i mentioned above are all 4 to 5 stars rated scenic spot in China and also some of them are world heritage. But of course, there are some other places we went that i'm unable to explain all.... well, our tour guide also brought us to some places that are not in our itinerary, mostly shopping area, like place where you can buy silver, jade, silk, crystal, etc... oh! and some shopping street which we request our tour guide to bring us there. I'll post the pictures in my next post.