A kind of lifestyle call Dali

Update these 2 days in Dali. We experienced an earthquake just 60km away from us. 4.5 magnitude but good news is I don’t feel any vibration in our room. World is getting weirder everyday.

In Dali, we get to really meet different type of people. I become very E suddenly and start talking to random stranger suddenly. We get a meet an 50~ man name ah Wei and he talk to us and ask our Brompton. Thru him we get to meet other very strange hipper on the road. Last night we went to a cafe and bar to get some drink and we sit around and start pulling people and talk. One even can play piano very well and we start to sing KTV in the bar live. Many people stopped and listen.

Today morning we went to 无为寺 to eat veg meal prepared by monk. During the meal, which is free we are not allow to talk and take photos. We also have to finish all the food in the plate and wash them ourselves. Eat like this opens up our five senses and we get to appreciate the food bought to us by the farmer. I didn’t pray to the god even I was in the temple. I did hesitate to even acknowledge the god in the temple but ends up I did inform them to excuse me for being in the temple. Let them know that I was here. I suddenly realise that the best thing is not to pray for anything. It’s not about having is about not having pain, sickness, misery etc. The most ideal stage is not having anything and not to ask for more. The more we have the more we away from the path. Whatever god give us is the best and there is nothing more we should be asking for. 

It’s very hard to explain my feeling in English. But kinda just pen down my thoughts for future reference.

7 days in Kun Ming

Had been missing from blogging these 2 months. As I had been travelling in China and firewall had blocked blogger and google services. 

I had been to Hainan to cycle and then we land back to Hanoi and Sapa to renew visa. Stayed there for one month and then we took a bus to enter China Kun Ming via Lao Cai to Hei Kou. This is different from the custom that we enter China to Nan Ning via You Yi Guan.

So now I am stationed at Dali the most beautiful place and full of crazy people place. But this post I want to wrap up my experience in Kunming. We stayed for 7 days and stay at a very nice loft at one of the condotel. It is a small room that was partition into a mini loft via a double decked metal bed. What drew us there is that they provided us with 2 desktop to play game in the room. I think it belong to a single men where he rent out the studio maybe while he is away to another place to work. We enjoyed the unit that cost us $20 a night. We love the food street below and close to MRT that can take us to any place we want to do shopping.

Then our first stop to explore the city we landed at 五一站 where we happened to stumble over Brompton junction kunming where we rode our Brompton to the shopping Center. This is all where the magic starts to happen, the store owner offer to add us to the group and so happen that the next day there will be an event between Brompton and Lululemon in kunming. We decided to join since it is a free event.

The whole event was very new to us and we met a lot of friends that own Brompton and we spend the next 6 days with 3 groups of people. 

Alan and Liza bring us to eat branch and teach me to smoke a cigar and offer some of his own collection of cigar. I do learn a lot of the young man. He was in finance investment group. He had a lot of 文玩 and it inspired me to buy one as well.

Liang Liang and Xiao bai is a Alibaba consultant and an education consultant respectively. We stumble over them the next day and they took us to round 萃湖. 

Kunming was surprising good and according to Alan it is better than Nan Ning as this is a tourism city which the support and culture will be better. Earning potential is also better than Nan Ning. What is so nice about Yun Nan is that the weather is always spring. They told me the highest weather is 25 degree. I went in month April so it is winter ending. 

We now station in Dali. Tmr update more.