Credits: Some photos are taken by master chin and Chuen Yee.
L ovely sunny day. We drove towards Shangrila.
Passby Nixi, a village that is good at making claypots. the driver stopped to buy a pot for himself. I took the opportunity to buy some souvenirs for friends as well. All those delicious steamboat was cooked using this dark clay pots.
The driver is going to bring us to our all time favourite mixian shop in Shangrila to have a good meal before we board the plane. Yun yum. This time round, I asked for extra topping of meat for all. Simply delicious. The different ingredients in the plastic tubs are an art itself, so pleasing to the eyes. We added different type of ingredients like chilli, sesame, ginger and all.
We spent the last half hour roaming around the twon of Shangrila before we bade farewell to it.
The Shangrila Airport looks much better than any airport that I have been to. It is so brand new. But only 3 flights a day utilize it haha.
We paid the driver and bade him farewell. The plane is late so we have to wait till 3pm. I chosed a window seat and tried to recognize the landscapes below me. Goodbye Shangrila!
Barely 15 minutes flying, I recognized the water reservoir at Lijiang. A journey that took 6 hrs by car haha. Then not long after that I saw a sprawling big lake below. Could it be 洱海? (I later found out from Google Earth that it is.)
Reached Kunming at 4 plus.
Deposited our bags at the Baggage deposit office and took a very crowded bus 52 to town bookshop to buy pictorials. Packed like sardine. Got down at 爱国桥 and walked to 新华书局. No luck. Not much pictorial books around. Just bought a few 三国 then took a mac dinner (their mac serving some special meals heehee).
We quickly head back to Airport bookshop instead. Don think we can squeeze into the bus judging from the waiting crowd and the buses packness. We took a cab instead.
Reached airport at 7pm. We were like grabbing whatever books we saw (quite cheap anyway) and made full use of all the time. Then we rushed to the Baggage Office to retrieve our luggage and rushed to the check in counter. The queue is already formed. We were lucky to get in front of a big tour group. Got our beloved row 12 again (Emergency Exit row) and phew…all done. Yinhuan and I still thinking of buying somemore books. We pleaded the custom ladies to let us out. She hesitated awhile and finally let us go. We were gleaming from ear to ear and sprinted to the bookshop to continue our shopping madness. Buy till no rmb left haha.
The plane is late again. Food served this time is even worse; bread with zhapcai. Really budget to the max. We just don’t care. Tired. But a fulfilling tour no less. Look forward to the next trip…
Passby Nixi, a village that is good at making claypots. the driver stopped to buy a pot for himself. I took the opportunity to buy some souvenirs for friends as well. All those delicious steamboat was cooked using this dark clay pots.
The driver is going to bring us to our all time favourite mixian shop in Shangrila to have a good meal before we board the plane. Yun yum. This time round, I asked for extra topping of meat for all. Simply delicious. The different ingredients in the plastic tubs are an art itself, so pleasing to the eyes. We added different type of ingredients like chilli, sesame, ginger and all.
We spent the last half hour roaming around the twon of Shangrila before we bade farewell to it.
The Shangrila Airport looks much better than any airport that I have been to. It is so brand new. But only 3 flights a day utilize it haha.
We paid the driver and bade him farewell. The plane is late so we have to wait till 3pm. I chosed a window seat and tried to recognize the landscapes below me. Goodbye Shangrila!
Barely 15 minutes flying, I recognized the water reservoir at Lijiang. A journey that took 6 hrs by car haha. Then not long after that I saw a sprawling big lake below. Could it be 洱海? (I later found out from Google Earth that it is.)
Rivers as seen from the plane.
Train Station near Kunming.
Rows of HDB flats near Kunming Airport.
Reached Kunming at 4 plus.
Deposited our bags at the Baggage deposit office and took a very crowded bus 52 to town bookshop to buy pictorials. Packed like sardine. Got down at 爱国桥 and walked to 新华书局. No luck. Not much pictorial books around. Just bought a few 三国 then took a mac dinner (their mac serving some special meals heehee).
We quickly head back to Airport bookshop instead. Don think we can squeeze into the bus judging from the waiting crowd and the buses packness. We took a cab instead.
Reached airport at 7pm. We were like grabbing whatever books we saw (quite cheap anyway) and made full use of all the time. Then we rushed to the Baggage Office to retrieve our luggage and rushed to the check in counter. The queue is already formed. We were lucky to get in front of a big tour group. Got our beloved row 12 again (Emergency Exit row) and phew…all done. Yinhuan and I still thinking of buying somemore books. We pleaded the custom ladies to let us out. She hesitated awhile and finally let us go. We were gleaming from ear to ear and sprinted to the bookshop to continue our shopping madness. Buy till no rmb left haha.
The plane is late again. Food served this time is even worse; bread with zhapcai. Really budget to the max. We just don’t care. Tired. But a fulfilling tour no less. Look forward to the next trip…
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