Lugu Hu
I spent the last three days at Lugu Hu, a surreal lake on the border of Yunnan and Sichuan Provinces. While we were there, a foot or two of snow fell, covering the place in white and stranding us there indefinitely. We made the most of it, enjoying their famous toasted fish, having huge snowball wars with the locals, and even watching a couple of movies.
Today was especially fun … after getting up and spending about 2 hours trying to find a ride that would cost less than ¥1500 (nobody wanted to brave the treacherous mountain roads), we mistakenly ran into a huge bus that was going back to Lijiang. We hopped on board, only to find that a couple dozen Mosol minority people were boarding the bus too … not to go to Lijiang, but to help clear the road.
Every time we found a patch of ice or snow, we’d stop the bus and disembark … and literally hundreds of local people would clear the road with shovels and pickaxes. Snowball fights broke out, we pushed cars up the hills, and I even taught a few people how to make snow angels! After about three hours of this madness, we finally got on the road (for the remaining six hours of the trip).
Tomorrow I’m hopping on another bus to Kunming, where I’ll stay for two days to see the city and hopefully the Superbowl as well. Then I’m off to Bannan in southern Yunnan (Jinghong, Menjia, etc). After that I might head back up to Dali and Zhongdian then maybe go to Laos and Vietnam … we’ll see!
Eventually I hope to post a map of my travels so it’s easier for y’all to follow along, but for now here’s a map of Yunnan that I snatched from the Interweb (Lugu Hu is near the “d” in “Zhongdian”). Enjoy!
February 3rd, 2007 at 8:17 am EST
i was sort of watching tv last night, and a song started to play on a dental commercial, and i though “hmm that’s a good song. i know that song. who sings that song? Oh my gosh it’s Griffin House!” I jut thought you might find that interesting.