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| Sunrise |
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| Sunrise |
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| The map Jacky drew us |
We ended up lucking out with amazing weather. We got to see
the sunrise, which was incredible. After the sunrise the mama made us
breakfast. She made us each a fried egg, brought us 8 HUGE pieces of bread,
honey and jam. I was stuffed after finishing my fried egg and 4 slices of
bread. When the plate was empty she came back over and asked us in Chinese if
we were full, “你吃饱了吗？”(Ni
chi bao le ma) And we of course we said YESS. She really wanted us to eat more but
thankfully she gave up.
During breakfast
Jacky sat with us for a little and drew us a map that would take us to the rice
terraces where we could trek in his village. He told us that the other villages
had fog so trekking through his village would be our best option for the day
and later on if we had time and there was no fog we could go to the other
villages.
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| Casually smoking a bong.. |
After breakfast we
headed out. Jacky told us after the tombs and this sign there would be a dirt
path and we should turn down that. Well we didn’t see any tombs or a sign, but
we did see a dirt path and we weren’t really paying attention before seeing the
path so we decided to take it. There were people on it so it seemed promising.
At the end of the path we were forced to either take a left or turn around.
Jacky told us we would pass a school and well before getting to the trekking
path so we figured we should turn left and keeping going. The house on the
corner had a man smoking a bong, pigs and his wife yelling at us telling us we
couldn’t go any further. Not right. So we turned around. We got back to the
main road and there were a ton of mothers and daughters trying to sell us their
eggs. And they would NOT leave us alone. It was super annoying.
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| Working on the rice terraces |
We kept walking,
seeing nothing but a bunch of pigs, some yak and wild chickens. Oh and a huge
wedding party passed by us. At this point I thought we should just jump in one
of the cars and go to the wedding. Then
we got to a sign that said, “scenic lookout”. So we headed in that direction
and it was gorgeous.
We kept walking and
eventually hit the tombs and the sign Jacky was talking about. And then there
was a dirt path! Long story shortened, we got to the trekking path. We were in
complete fog. Could not see anything in front of us. Jacky told us at the end
of the trek you’ll get to the village and then you can follow the street and
you’ll find my Guest House.
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| FOG LIFTED |
Well, from the
scenic overlook we were able to see that the rice terraces went on for forever.
There was no way to know if we were on the right trekking path or if the
trekking path we were on would ever end. After going back and forth over this
river, Henry, using my compass, tried to figure out which direction we needed
to go to get back to Jacky’s. The map
and the compass were doing nothing for me, so I made Henry call Jacky. He told him
the path should lead us up to stairs to a village. Helpful, considering we
couldn’t see anything. I started freaking out that we were going to get lost completely and stuck out in the middle of the rice terraces we could not see
anything. Right after getting off the phone the fog lifted. It was a miracle.
We could see everything. We figured out we had gone way too far and we needed
to take the trekking path up. So we did. And eventually we hit the village that
Jacky was talking about. Then we hit the road and walked back to Jacky’s
Guest House.
It was only 1 but
we decided to call it a day and just eat lunch, drink beer and read on the
terrace. It was our last stop of the trip and we were both exhausted.
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| Afternoon reading on the terrace |
The afternoon was
fun, relaxing and just what I needed.
Tomorrow we have a
van picking us up at 7:45 am to take us to the bus station for our 9:10 bus
back to Kunming.
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