By Jane Kiester
Day 10, Sunday, April 25 (Xizhou)
Our group enjoying breakfast in Dali
Today was very cold and overcast. We practiced Qigong and Chen Style Tai Chi. We practiced longer than usual as a camera crew from the Chinese television came again to film us. This time Jeanee and Brian Linden planned to get a copy of [...]
By Jane Kiester
Day 5, Tuesday, April 20 (Kunming to Xizhou)
After our deep, long sleep, we ate breakfast at the buffet which offered the usual Chinese cabbage, fruit (tomatoes included), Chinese summer sausage (turkey? Tofu?), steamed buns filled with bean paste (I ate three), rice porridge with red rice mixed with white (congee). Sated, we boarded a [...]
By Shawn Cartwright
We journeyed through the Yunnan countryside as we headed for Dali and Xi Zhou. Scenic hills and valleys alternated like Yin and Yang to weave a brocade-like landscape.. Yunnan is suffering from a severe drought, the worst in 80-100 years. Normally the climate is more like a temperate rain forest; but even with drought, it [...]