DAY 23 (April 30) Kunming-Lufeng

I had breakfast with Brother Lin this morning and helped pack the car. I said goodbye for a long time. Before leaving, I even gave me the car lock and stab-proof strips to help me install them. I couldn't repay it, so I had to go to Lhasa with his will.

The last time I came to Yunnan, I had already been in Kunming for a few days. Thinking that the May Day holiday was coming, and there were many people in the city, I stopped staying and headed straight to Dali.

Compared with Anning's high prices, Lufeng seems very friendly to the people. Many hotels are also very cheap, more like they are prepared for parents accompanying them. This is more like an emerging city developed through education. Students can be seen everywhere on the road, connected to several schools, a vibrant city

While having dinner, I met four big brothers who were engaged in engineering. I started chatting when I went in and bought me two bottles of water. When I was paying, the boss told me that the big brother who had given me the money for my meal when I went to the bathroom. The boss also invited me to drink a bowl of soup and repeatedly said that I could add more if I didn't have enough rice. Finally, he kindly advised me not to set up a tent outside. There were many cheap hotels on the next street. At that moment, my eyes became moist. I was grateful and I was full of affection for the city.

DAY 24 (May 1) Lufeng-Nanhua

This morning, the section of the road along the river from Lufeng to Yipinglang has a good scenery, with little ups and downs, and I felt comfortable riding. Then I took a section of the Yunnan-Myanmar Highway

The ancient town of Yi people in Chuxiong is an ancient commercial town that has been built not long ago. It is quite large. There are many people during the festival, so I didn't enter it on the way.

I met the uncle from yesterday again in Luhe Town and chatted all the way to Nanhua. It turns out that he rides a long distance every year, riding both Xinzang and Sichuan-Tibet. This time, he plans to go from Yunnan to Tibet to Qinghai-Tibet and out. Speaking of which, this uncle is also a talent. After understanding the Sichuan-Tibet line, he bought a car to ride Lhasa from Lanzhou. At that time, I didn't know what changing gears was like. I worked in one gear all the way to Sichuan, and pushed it when I couldn't ride on a big slope. Now I'm an old driver. I also learned a lot of experience from him, haha

DAY 25 (May 2) Nanhu-Xiangyun

This morning, I saw a very strange plant on the roadside. It looked like a lotus flower, but it kept growing. There were no leaves next to it. After checking, I realized that it was the ground-surging golden lotus. It is a flower unique to China. It is simple, elegant, pure, and sacred. The good meaning has a great relationship with Buddhism. In Buddhism, the lotus can be said to be its sacred flower, and the bottom of the earth-surging golden lotus is exactly the same as the lotus, which represents the relationship between kindness and punishment of evil. Therefore, the beautiful meaning of the earth-surging golden lotus is the most important reason why the masses like it., it will also appear in Buddhist portraits.

I met four Kunming riders at Maobanqiao Reservoir and rode Dali during the May Day holiday

Later, a circle of friends learned that he was a fan of small wheel skills, but small wheel was really not suitable for riding this mountain road. Later, when he arrived in Lijiang, he took the road back home.

When I arrived at Xiazhuang, I planted a lot of cherry trees on the roadside. They were on the market. The price was 15 yuan per pound. I tried one and found that the meat was not solid and moist. I saw that some cherry trees on the roadside were not managed, so I picked one and tasted it. It was bitter. I vomited it out in one gulp. It seems that there is a reason why no one cared about it.

On the road, I encountered many such online celebrities who drove bicycles on foot. It was exposed on the Internet that they walked during their live broadcast, and they drove them with cars after stopping the live broadcast. Haha

I made a slope this morning. I didn't expect to arrive at Xiangyun Town before dark. The sky was so cloudy, Xiangyun

DAY 26 (May 3) Xiangyun-Dali

In the morning, we will start with a 3-kilometer uphill climb and a 7-kilometer downhill climb, and then another 11-kilometer uphill climb and a 9-kilometer downhill climb. It's really cool. This is the rhythm of entering the plateau and mountainous areas.

pointing to the mountains

Arriving in Dali in the afternoon, there were obviously more people as soon as we arrived near the Erhai Lake.

After entering the ancient city, it was crowded with people, and the entire commercial pedestrian street felt like

The quality of singers here is the best in all the ancient cities and pedestrian streets I have been to

Dali's clouds are quite powerful

Eat, drink and play everything

Today, I met two more people walking to Lhasa on a cart. Is this a trend?

DAY 27 (May 4) Dali Ancient City

Today we arranged to walk through the ancient city

Golden prunes come from Xinjiang. Fresh prunes are used to remove the purple peel and core. The flesh is amber. After proper curing and saccharification reaction, it will show a bright and transparent golden pink color, which is crispy and sweeter than candied fruit.

Yuer Park

DAY 28 (May 5) Dali Chongsheng Temple

A one-day trip to Chongsheng Temple was arranged today

First, we passed through the ancient city and arrived at Yita Park. The Hongsheng Temple Tower inside was not inferior to the three towers. However, during maintenance, I wanted to sneak in, but was discovered by security guards, so I had to give up.

Dali Ancient City Museum

As an ancient capital, it does have its heritage, but unfortunately, the towers are all being maintained and cannot be climbed up. They have been maintained for more than a year. I wonder if the government has stopped working.

Dali No. 1 Primary School and No. 4 Middle School are actually located in the ancient town of Dali. On the street with the largest traffic of people, what do you feel like seeing countless tourists going to and from school every day?

At Guanyin Temple, I ran into a travel friend who used to live in the same room at Shilin Youth Travel Service. We chatted for a while. He used to be a teaching teacher, but now he has been traveling for some time. He is a person who does whatever he wants. It seems that the ticket package he bought is also very cheap. It is only fifty years old.

The royal temple is domineering, overlooking the entire Erhai Lake. The wall is not turned over in vain, but the light is a little poor

Because the Wanghai Tower behind is under maintenance, this is the highest point

Start walking back towards the main entrance exit

I wouldn't want to leave if it weren't for the closing of the door.

The next section of Dali continues wonderfully