Posts Tagged ‘dali’

This way to the shadow agglomeration pond

September 22, 2013

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More from my trip behind the great firewall. The Chinese are big on these.

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Apparently there is a spot (this is the Chongsheng temple near Dali, Yunnan Province) where the points of the three pagodas can come together. I couldn’t even manage to get a proper picture of all three: it is hard to find a good spot.

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The fruit on the left were new to me:

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This plant seemed vaguely familiar:

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though a tea brewed from it (in the spirit of science: we had to try) yielded no discernible result.

One day somebody who can start to sell drinking yoghurt in Australia in the Chinese style should surely make a fortune. This is the more expensive (of two brands) widely available in this part of Yunnan:

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That’s yak milk yoghurt.