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We arrived in Dali (?) The early morning. Founded in 1383, Dali is an old city surrounded by mountains Cangshan. It is surrounded by ramparts of 8 meters high and 3.5 kilometers in circumference, and crossed by a network of streams descending from these mountains that surround it. Therefore, to Dali, one hears the murmur of water and flowers are seen throughout the city. It is also characterized by 4 "beauties": wind, flower, snow and moon. Dali Women wear an apron and wear some way reminiscent of the "beauties."

Here the entry ... Here, a horde of taxi drivers, drivers of mini-buses, and various service-people take us by storm ... Finally, we come to get rid of it by dint of walking by ignoring .

The city is very touristy, more than Lijiang! It crosses of white everywhere, however it seems to me that a place called the "long street noise" ... prior to a meeting point for tourists.


By wandering in back streets lost, suddenly a great wind rises. A real dust storm ensues! In fact, Dali was also his little nickname ... "The City of Wind" (and is also one of the beauties ... I'd rather see another)! In any case, it's pretty impressive, and stay in the streets quickly becomes unpleasant to the eyes ! After a quick breakfast restaurant (it was easier to find restaurants in Lijiang), one starts mini-bus to see the pagodas Monastery Chongshen. On site, he found that the price is a bit exaggerated ... we thought that the entry was free! So ... it will not affect the pagodas of the hand, too bad. On the right is a chicken tied to a door, he calmly awaits his master went to the toilet ...


We visited an old house vintage, all in wood. We also saw a sort of staged in the life of the Bai minority. The culture of this minority is mostly dancing and singing (oh, we were right there too).

I laughed from the beginning because the dancers did that stuff ... idiots ! Finally, in the end we thought that perhaps it was intended: the tradition that the bride is done by pinching the buttocks all who are around ... and we had the demo.


This is my favorite part of the day, and yet not really in Dali. The mini-bus took us in an old village below, a priori, rather it was a scam because the driver insisted that we go into a shop of his family. We chose from one foot far enough to discover a little, and we came upon a large and beautiful market! No tourists here! And the atmosphere really interresting ...


A lovely scene in the village: two children play basketball with everything they can ... cement a pole with a common handle scrap. Behind, a barber at work, with a razor in hand. I have not had time, but I think a very nice picture could be taken here.

After that restaurant. A specialty of Dali's fried! And they are excellent ... a percentage point. They tear grâââve! Many chili and I know not what others, in any case it is very difficult to eat everything. I'm loving that I could eat five ...