November 27, 2007
Old Dali City Traveling to Kumming, China
Last day here in Old Dali City where our hotel room with our own bath and limited hot water is only 50 yuan per night (less than $7US).
Breakfast at our favorite “Go Go Cafe” where you can watch current American Movies for free if you buy food from them. This is a cafe for foreigners, for the ex-pats. Bob Dylan is always on the stereo and I am beginning appreciate him more and more. Maybe it has something to do with my wanderlust.
One last trip through the two different markets in town.
The butchers, pork mostly, all are at one end of the market, two long rows of them. Their tables are covered in these sheets of metal that are screwed down to the wooden table below. When the chop meat on it, it makes this weird sound. I can’t help but wonder doesn’t it dull their knives real quick?
Chili is sold everywhere in the southwest providence of Yunnan. The vendors have these large mechanized morter and pestle contraption that pounds the chili down into powder, paste, what have you. The sound of the the morter and pestle pounding reverberates through the market and it as if its the heart beat of the market. Its amazingly beautiful.
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Really starting to take it all in. The environment, the towns, the people, everything. I was resistant at first but now I lament at how short these next 23 days will be. You can’t even begin to scratch the surface of things.
