Our Trip to Yunnan Province

Jocelyn Writes:

Well we are finally getting caught up in blog entries.....Below is Ayden's piece on Yunnan Province--stay tuned for Gavi's entry...

Ayden Writes:

Last week I went to Yunnan Province. Yunnan is in the south of China. The plane ride to Yunnan was not very long, only about two hours. When we arrived in Yunnan, a tour guide picked us up, then the tour guide brought us to a hotel. The next day we went to the stone forest. The stone forest is a forest that instead of there being trees there are stones everywhere so it looks like a forest of stones.

The next day we took a eight hour over night train ride to Dali. We slept on the train. There were three levels of bunk beds. I slept part of the night on each of the bunks. When we got to Dali, we went straight to breakfast. After breakfast we went to a pagoda. The pagoda was different because there were mountains in the background. On the way to the pagoda we went past the area that Cheng Ho was born. For the people who don’t know who Cheng Ho was, Cheng Ho was my explorer this year in social studies class. Cheng Ho went on 7 voyages in the China Sea. When we arrived at the pagoda, my first thought was this is beautiful. We were not allowed in the pagoda but we were allowed to get really close to the pagoda. We also saw members of the Bai community who were wearing funky head dresses.

The next day we drove to Lijiang. It took us three hours to get there. When we got there we went to Snow Dragon Mountain. The Snow Dragon Mountain is a huge mountain in Lijiang. It is over 10,000 feet high. We didn’t go to the top of the mountain, but we went pretty far up. When we got to the mountain a bus drove us to a spot on the mountain that we could hop on a cable car and go to the half way mark. When we reached the half way mark we started to hike. We hiked for about an hour, then we went back down on a cable car because some students had trouble breathing.

On the second day in Lijiang we went to the old city. We spent the whole morning there. The old city is a shopping area. Then we drove back to Dali, where we hopped on a train then a plane that brought us back to Xi’an. I had a great time in Yunnan Province.