Sunday, July 13, 2008

Sunday photos from Kunming

Kathy and I took a stroll in the neighborhood around our hotel this morning to shake off jet lag. So here are some scenes of Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province in Southwest China.

The local market a couple of blocks from our hotel. Sort of hidden behind the man talking to the vendor you can just see the legs of the local delicacy, black chicken, Mmm, we're going to be eating a lot of that over the next couple of weeks, the guest of honor always gets to eat the best part, the head and the feet...




We strolled through Kunming University, a rather idyllic setting.


From the university we walked over to Green Lake, along with thousands of Kunming residents out for their Sunday constitutionals. This photo is looking back towards our hotel, which is the building with the sort of flying sauce bar on the top.


And what would a Chinese park be without a group of people doing Tai Chi? What I have never figured out that is Tai Chi seems to be practiced solely by people over the age of 60, but everybody seems to know how to do it (this group was all moving together). Where and when do people learn Tai Chi?

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So we'll be blogging away fairly regularly on this trip. We leave in a few hours for Luxi, the capital of Dehong prefecture. I'll take photos every day, and we'll post when we have an internet connection.

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