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Finally entered the shopping link, this is also the first shopping activity since the trip, He led the team to Ruili Jiegao Trade Zone for shopping, Xiao He tour guide said that this store is the only official store in the Free Trade Zone, all the jadeite sold here All are authentic. In order to be worthy of the cheap tour fare and a trip to the Myanmar border, I bought myself a bracelet (bet it is real).
Although there are not many people shopping in a car, the lunch is still good and the environment is very good. After the meal, return to Mangshi, the capital of Dehong Prefecture. It is probably the local protection. When you get here, you must change the tour guide here. After handing over with Lan Dao, the tour guide Xiao He who accompanied us for 3 days bid farewell to everyone and left. Next, we will change to the tour guide. The tour guide here, Guide Lan, took us to continue our trip in Mangshi.
Figure 12 restaurant
Director Lan is a middle-aged man who looks a bit rough. He introduced himself as a Yi nationality. He is a Theravada believer. His hometown is in Longling. He is the son-in-law of the local Dai (tai) people in Mangshi. (He is the leader), because the ethnic minorities here in Yunnan usually start work after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and most of the travel agency employees are ethnic minorities. Now the manpower is tight, and there are not enough employees in the class, so I can only come out and lead our group. , hope we don't judge people by their cover. After two days of contact, I found that this big man is actually a very witty and humorous person. In addition to introducing the local customs, he also likes to tell stories, legends, and ghosts. He is not only the owner of several hotels and jewelry stores, but also a nearby Several cooperative presidents. Director Lan explained that the local people call themselves the Dai (tai) because the local Dai people think that they are the most authentic Dai people. Director Lan also enthusiastically taught us some daily expressions of the local Dai people to prevent misunderstandings. Some names sound like curses (if you call someone like this in Beijing, you will be beaten up), and the language differences between different ethnic groups are really huge. .
Mengba Naxi is a private garden, and Mengba Naxi is in Dai language. Director Lan said that he translated the name as a strange place. In fact, it is a private garden with many rare treasures. Along the way, I followed Director Lan to listen and explain a lot of knowledge, such as strangled trees, keels, petrified wood, and petrified wood. . . How to distinguish the true and false of some jade and other common sense. This time I learned about a common leaf used as a background material for flower arrangements. This plant is called fishtail sunflower, and its fruit is poisonous. An old woman in front of her suddenly stumbled and fell to the ground, lying motionless on the ground. Her family members were at a loss. Lan Dao helped them dial the emergency number, and the ambulance arrived soon (the next day in the car, Lan Dao told everyone that The woman was cured and recovered well). There is a kind of semicircular stone with circles of circular lines in the garden. Director Lan warned everyone not to stand on this kind of stone. Most of the gates of scenic spots in Yunnan are elephants, and different expressions of elephants indicate different content. Director Lan explained that elephants with raised noses are called welcoming elephants, and those with noses facing down or in their mouths are lucky elephants.
Figure 13-1 Mengba Naxi
Figure 13-2 There are many peacocks scattered in the beautiful garden, so I have the opportunity to watch the peacocks so close.
Figure 13-3 Memorial Pavilion of Premier Zhou Enlai
The Menghuan Great Golden Pagoda is shining golden. The Great Golden Pagoda is a landmark building in Mangshi, and it is also a sacred place for the Dai (tai) people who live here. Director Lan specially asked you to follow his explanation, otherwise you will not know the taboos and Precautions. I didn't know the beast at the gate, so Lan Dao told everyone that the beast was called Gaduo, and it was the guardian deity of Hinayana (sheng) Buddhism. Director Lan is a believer in the Theravada religion. The director Lan, who likes to joke, got angry here because of some people’s inattention. He thinks this is a disrespect for the religion he believes in. No disrespect, there are many taboos in ethnic minority areas, and I dare not take random photos easily, so I only took two pictures at the places where Director Lan said that it is allowed to take pictures. Director Lan reminded everyone not to write blessings in Fengling Pavilion lightly. Writing blessings does not cost money, but there are monks chanting sutras in Fengling Pavilion every day. To hang blessings in Fengling Pavilion, you need to pay a year's chanting fee at a time.
Figure 14-1 Menghuan Shwedagon Pagoda
Figure 14-2 Gadot
For dinner, there is a peacock banquet in a restaurant of the Dai ethnic group. Don’t get me wrong, there is no peacock meat, just the shape, just like the tour guide Xiao He said, “Isn’t there no wife in the wife’s cake?”
Figure 15 Peacock Banquet
Mangshi is the capital of Dehong Prefecture. Mangshi was not originally called Mangshi, but it was renamed Mangshi because of its abundant fruit. There are jackfruit trees everywhere on the street. Director Lan said that although jackfruit is abundant here, the locals don’t eat it. It is used to feed pigs (sounds like a waste), and when the fruit is ripe, the ripe jackfruit fruit will fall by itself at night (Guide Lan said that the fruit will not fall during the day), and tourists can go to the street to pick it up. Director Lan said that when the jackfruit is ripe, the fruit falls on the street, and the local people don’t care about it, and let the fruit rot. At this time, the streets of Mangshi are full of fruit fragrance and the smell of rotten fruit. Because of the inconvenient transportation, a large amount of jackfruit is wasted Yes, what a pity. At this time, there are only small cute fruits on the jackfruit tree.
Figure 16-1 Manshi Jackfruit
Unlike Ruili, Director Lan said that the public security in Mangshi is very good, and tourists can rest assured to go out for a stroll at night. I stayed at the Hongwei Hotel that night, most of the shops on the street were closed, and there was a supermarket nearby that was open, with a wide variety of items.
Figure 16-2 Supermarket
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At 8:30 in the morning, the vehicle departed to Huanglongyu Processing Factory in Longling County, Baoshan District (the second shopping of the tour group). Huanglongyu was produced in Xiaoheishan, Longling County. It is said that Xiaoheishan covers an area of 40 kilometers, while Huanglongyu mine has only More than 20 kilometers of mining resources, Huanglongyu is said to be as hard as jadeite, and resources are even more scarce. Director Lan is from Longling. He introduced that there are three treasures in Baoshan. One is that Baoshan has emerald deposits, but it is not suitable for large-scale mining due to the scattered resources; the other is green Baoshan tribute rice. This kind of green rice cannot be used. Machine shelling is done by manual peeling, and the output of tribute rice is very small, all of which are specially supplied; and then there is this Huanglongyu, which is said to be a jade that was transformed only 150 million years ago. There is a lot of fog on the mountain, but fortunately there are not many vehicles, and the border inspection girl who boarded the car at the border inspection station is really pretty (photographing is not allowed at the checkpoint, let alone the border inspection personnel, so I didn’t take photos). Longling County is located in the mountains, with the highest altitude of 3001.6 meters and the lowest altitude of 535 meters.
Longshan Lake is not a scenic spot at all. Little Hu can walk around in ten minutes, and there is no scenery to speak of (it’s not as beautiful as Xiaoyue River). Fortunately, the blue sky and white clouds in Yunnan are the backdrop, and the photos are okay. misty people.
Figure 17 Longshan Lake
After lunch, the funny guide Lan bid farewell to everyone, the trip is over, and the rest is the return trip. The group continued to follow the driver, Master Liang, to Chuxiong. We will stay in Chuxiong tonight, and we will return to Kunming tomorrow to take the flight back to Beijing. The road is bumpy for a few hours. Fortunately, the scenery along the way is good, and it is not very good to take pictures through the dirty car window. The scenery has been ruined a lot.
Figure 18 Snapshots along the way from Mangshi to Chuxiong
Figure 19 Without a tour guide, when we arrived at the source of the Lancang River and the Mekong River, the driver Master Liang enthusiastically informed everyone.
Nearly 19:00, at a rest stop, all the staff took off their luggage and changed to another car. At the same time, they changed to a young driver and a receptionist, Ayan. Have a simple dinner at a restaurant on the side of the highway, and continue to Chuxiong. It was already 10 o'clock in the evening when we arrived in Chuxiong. We checked into the Xiongye Hotel and had a bumpy journey. Just as we wanted to pack up and take a rest, some people dragged me out to go shopping together. All the businesses on the 15th Street were closed. After a long walk, I found an open barbecue restaurant near the hotel. The owner and his wife are from Sichuan. As the tour guides said, the ethnic minority compatriots here are on the 10th day of the first lunar month. It was not open before Friday, and there was an occasional person on the street who asked about the business, and they were not locals. A few of them rubbed open with great interest, and went back to their room to sleep after 1 o'clock in the morning.
Figure 20 Chuxiong Supper At that time, I didn't pay attention to the words on the wall. I came back to sort out the photos and found that the words were quite funny.
2019-2-19 Fifteenth day of the first lunar month
After breakfast, Ayan greeted everyone to get on the bus and departed for Kunming on time at 7:30. Ayan is about 40 years old. She introduces herself as a member of the reception team of a travel agency. Ayan is enthusiastic and talkative. Along the way, she introduces the living habits, customs and customs of the ethnic minorities here. On the way from Chuxiong to Kunming, the vehicles stopped and people went up and down. After the trip, the original team dispersed, and those who rejoined the group left to continue to play elsewhere. Those who returned from other groups came up after the tour, by train or by plane. The return time of each team is different, and finally a car of people put together was gathered at the pedestrian street in Kunming for lunch. After dinner, arrange one batch in the morning and one batch in the afternoon to the airport according to their respective departure times (those who take off later can only spend more time at the airport).
Figure 21 Bridge Rice Noodles
We are on an evening flight, and we need to stay for a few hours after lunch before gathering at the pedestrian street. The pedestrian street will be finished after a few short walks. Free activities and leisure are boring. I don’t know the traffic conditions in Kunming and dare not go too far. See Baohai Park nearby. Tickets are 5 yuan/person, just go in and walk around. Although Baohai Park is not very big, the environment is good, the greenery is good, and it is quiet. Almost every small pavilion in the park has a table of old people playing mahjong leisurely. The old people here play mahjong very quietly, and the small pavilions are covered by flowers, plants and trees. , If you don't get close, you don't know that there are people in the pavilion.
Figure 22 Baohai Park
Departing on Valentine’s Day, arriving home at night on Lantern Festival, this is my first time with a group (it’s still a cheap group), although I said in advance that I won’t force shopping, I still have scruples in my heart. I’ve heard too many negative news about Yunnan tour groups, and I’m worried about being coerced and worried. If you don't eat well, you won't live well. . . Although shopping on this trip is the most I have spent since I traveled, none of them are forced (I personally feel that whether there is a shopping desire and how much shopping depends on the storytelling skills of the tour guide and the salesmanship of the store's sales staff), and most of them They all ate well and lived comfortably. The tour guides were warm and thoughtful. The tour guides were changed in the middle, and the vehicles were also connected in an orderly manner. It was much better than expected. Overall, the experience with the group was very happy.
Traveling allows people to increase their experience and knowledge. Whether it is comfortable or hard work on the road, the scenery in the distance surprises or disappoints you, all of which are rewards. The focus is on the experience, harvest and beautiful feelings during the journey. Good memories, recorded down, left to you, to yourself.
In Figure 23, a set of super macro images from Huawei mate20 pro