We drove for a large part of the day through farming country with mountains quite close. The scenery was great. Lots of corn and rice. The rice on the flat parts looks yellowish and is being harvested and the rice on the slopes is still green. The terraces and flats make nice checkerboard patterns of different colours.
In this area of Yunnan there are many Dai people, quite a few of whom still wear their traditional clothes. We stopped at a Dai chieftain’s house. He was the magistrate, lawmaker and enforcer until the 1940’s and his house was a nice rambling conglomeration of many rooms for different purposes ( private and official) all linked together with nice courtyards here and there, ornately carved wooden screens, stone walls, really old bonsai trees etc.
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