Lijiang, China 23/12/2006

Weather getting colder and colder...today we will be going to explore Sifangjie Market Square, which is also Lijiang's Ancient Town...Jessie, our "pan jing mei" show us around the place. We went to "jiu pa jie", a street with many pubs and bars in Ancient Town, classy and unique place, the reach a square whereby a lot of people gather to sing and dance...heard that this is the place where you can make a pass to the guy or gal you like.....

After that we proceed to the "木" (Mu)'s family residence. "Mu" is the so called "Chief" of Lijiang, some sort like local king....big compound and big rooms...then we climb all the way to the top where there is a Pagoda up in the hill....very nice scenery there, you can see the whole Lijiang Ancient Town and also can see Jade Dragon Mountain from afar. The climbing up was tough...really no stamina and we blamed it on the altitude..haha....however....we made!!! Yipee!!!!

When we came down, it was free and easy time for us liao...which means shopping time....we also "cari cari makan"....we tried the local roti prata with ham and another time with banana...not bad...we like it....as for shopping...wanted to buy shawls but end up didn't buy cos as we walked out the price getting higher and we don't have time to walk back in to buy...so we end up didn't buy much lor....was rather dissapointed but we decided that we will come back at night to shop....

After lunch, we went to the Jade Spring Park...beautiful park!!! In the park itself there's a Dong Ba "lesson"..."Dong Ba" is a type of written of the tribe in Yunnan...the writing looks cute, very animated...

The night performance was good, a very impressive performance by the tribes, we get to know the culture of each tribe through their dance and singing...

We proceed back to the hotel for dinner and after dinner, JW, Yvonne, Fanny and I went out for shopping....we took a walk to the "Seven Star Street", which is suppose to be famous for shopping....I bought a long sleeve sweater blouse there and JW, Fanny and Yvonne got something too from there...we then proceed walking to Ancient Town for shopping....we bought a lot of shawls and it's really inexpensive, or should I say "CHEAP"....we only pay SGD2 for a nice colourful shawl. We bought in total 40 pieces of shawl...now come to think of it, should have got more...I also bought a big Winnie The Pool plactic back to put in all my shopping barang barang....

Before going back to the hotel, we drop by at KFC to drink soup and buy delicious eat tarts...after we reach hotel, both JW and I called for foot reflexology and WOW...it's cheap and good....it's good especially after a tiring day of walking....

After I finish the foot reflexology, I was dead tired and of course very relax too...went straight to bed and ZZzzzzz into my dreamland!!!!