Spring City Resort in Yunnan (14-18 Apr 2009)

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She say she was 81 years old.

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Inside the Jiu Xiang park, we first rode the small boat to tour this big "gap".

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Then went into the main cave that took us perhaps one hour to walk up and down. These 3 pictures are different angles at different height of the same rock formation that looked like a lion.

The lion was not quite visible in the last picture but it's the same opening in the mountain where the "lion" is.

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One of the many bridges inside and outside of the lime stone cave.

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Near the lion rock formation is this Hall of the Lion. It's very large open space and supposedly big enough to had a concert performance some years back.

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Some of the lime stone formation, including the signature "Magic Field" in the first picture. Compare to the talkway and person at the back to see the scale.

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At the end of the cave trip, we had a long climb inside the cave before reaching for the cable car for leaving the park. After climbing the long staire, one person in our group had sour legs in the golf games in the next two days!

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One the way back from Jiu Xiang to Spring City Resort, we passed many harvesting wheat fields. We stopped in one to take some pictures.

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I talked to this old couple for a few minutes. They told me they only grow wheat one season a year. After harvested the wheat, they will grow something else (I couldn't get the name due to their heavy accented Putonghua.)

It's back breaking work to tend the field and cut the wheat. They probably found it weird that I would be interesting in taking pictures of such mundane stuff. The woman was commenting to the man that I took so many shots.

I asked for one straw of wheat to show my kids, and the woman offered a whole bunch.

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Old racing the new.

We even saw horse drawn cart inside the city of Kunming.