previously visited :Dali 11 Oct to 13 Oct

Dali – new lake, windy town. A large ‘new town’ built over the past 10 years or so and an ‘old town’ and , adjacent to the ‘old town’ a ‘new old town’ The local minority group are the I million Bai people. The women usually wear white with colourfully embroidered waist bands . There is a significant group of Moslems. Dali is the main place is China where marble is quarried.

We visited some markets and an old house of a Bai chieftain – 2 storey ( people lived downstairs, things stored upstairs) built around a central courtyard with bits added on. Now home of 8 families.

We visited a place where there are 3 pillar like pagodas.

We have usually been eating as a group and Ross decides what we will eat. Ordering food in most of the places is difficult. You either point to what you want from the made up dishes or you point to the array of fresh vegetables and , sometimes, fish or meat. On one day a group of 5 of us went to a local place and pointed to the vegetables we wanted. We had no idea how they were to be cooked. We had a delicious meal!