Yunnan Province, Wenhai Village
To make a long story short: We had a stopover in Kunming en route to the North of the Yunnan province when we were tempted by a Greek salad on the menu at a western Restuarant and despite being told over and over "Fresh vegetables bad! Lettuce bad!", we ordered it.
The next day we suffered. We woke up at 5am for an early flight feeling normal, but by the time we had made it to the airport, we were rather (the kind of 'rather' that means 'extremely')uncomfortable. At the boarding gate, we sat looking across at each other's queasy expressions and experienced the progression of symptoms in unison. I won't go into detail but I will tell you that in flight air sickness bags were involved and we spent the rest of the day in a dark, freezing (there is no heating in the south of China) hotel room cocooned in our sleeping bags.
After 20 hours of convalescence, we went back out into the light of day and had Snickers for breakfast, Snickers for lunch and oranges for dinner. We were having some trust issues with food. Can I just digress for a moment here? If you have not had a Snickers bar lately, I am strongly urging you to go out and get yourself one today. You will remember how amazingly delicious they are and wonder why you had forgotten about them all these years.
We were fully recovered just in time for our first trek to begin.
This man was our guide into the Wenhai village. Wenhai village is inhabited by an ethnic minority called the Naxi (sounds like Nah-she) people.
The 'ecolodge' courtyard at Wenhai village.
Looking down over Wenhai Village. 3,100 meters above sea level.
This moutain is called Jade Snow Dragon Mountain. Josh and I set our sites on climbing to a secondary peak to get a good look from the top.
A view from the top. Wenhai Village is the dark patch on the near side of the lake.
The wonderful Naxi woman who cooked for us at the ecolodge. Naxi women are in charge of the household, business affiars and agriculture of the community and villages. Pretty unique.
After a couple of days in Wenhai Village, we walked with a guide for a day to a small town called Qiaotou--the starting point for a trek through Tiger Leaping Gorge.
The next day we suffered. We woke up at 5am for an early flight feeling normal, but by the time we had made it to the airport, we were rather (the kind of 'rather' that means 'extremely')uncomfortable. At the boarding gate, we sat looking across at each other's queasy expressions and experienced the progression of symptoms in unison. I won't go into detail but I will tell you that in flight air sickness bags were involved and we spent the rest of the day in a dark, freezing (there is no heating in the south of China) hotel room cocooned in our sleeping bags.
After 20 hours of convalescence, we went back out into the light of day and had Snickers for breakfast, Snickers for lunch and oranges for dinner. We were having some trust issues with food. Can I just digress for a moment here? If you have not had a Snickers bar lately, I am strongly urging you to go out and get yourself one today. You will remember how amazingly delicious they are and wonder why you had forgotten about them all these years.
We were fully recovered just in time for our first trek to begin.
This man was our guide into the Wenhai village. Wenhai village is inhabited by an ethnic minority called the Naxi (sounds like Nah-she) people.
The 'ecolodge' courtyard at Wenhai village.
Looking down over Wenhai Village. 3,100 meters above sea level.
This moutain is called Jade Snow Dragon Mountain. Josh and I set our sites on climbing to a secondary peak to get a good look from the top.
A view from the top. Wenhai Village is the dark patch on the near side of the lake.
The wonderful Naxi woman who cooked for us at the ecolodge. Naxi women are in charge of the household, business affiars and agriculture of the community and villages. Pretty unique.
After a couple of days in Wenhai Village, we walked with a guide for a day to a small town called Qiaotou--the starting point for a trek through Tiger Leaping Gorge.
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