Day 116 of Asia 2019 trip / Day 18 in China
Seeing as there was no Dragon boat racing we just were left with exploring the town. We took the opportunity to bypass “official” ways to get to get a viewpoint (not the first time in China on this trip!)
Day 115 of Asia 2019 trip / Day 17 in China
Zhenyuan 鎮遠 ancient water town, supposedly with 2000 years of history, was yet another destination I had found whilst on the road. It had been years, decades since I had seen dragon boat racing in person. And when I found out that the dragon boat festival was coming up on 7th June (i.e. the 5th day of the 5th month on the lunar calendar) AND that Zhengyuan was a famous place to view the sport, I declared to A that we HAD to go.
Day 114 of Asia 2019 trip / Day 16 in China
Guiyang 貴陽, the capital of Guizhou Province, means “South Side of Gui Mountain”. I cannot confidently say why we stopped here but it was in between Anshun and our next destination of Zhenyuan, an ancient water town.
Day 113 of Asia 2019 trip / Day 15 in China
Huangguoshu (literally: Yellow Fruit Tree) Waterfall 黃果樹瀑布 is one of China's largest waterfalls at 67m high and 83m wide. It is also known for having a pathway dug into the cliff face, meaning you are able to walk behind the curtain of water that comes gushing over the cliff. How exciting!
Day 112 of Asia 2019 trip / Day 14 in China
The title sounds kinda hippy, hey?
More Karsts were in store for us today at a small historic village called Yunshan 雲山 (literally: cloud mountain) near Anshun. I just think Karst scenary is so interesting and beautiful. Ippy cannot completely remember how she stumbled across this small village, but she does remember seeing drone photos taken from the village on Google Maps and being inspired to visit - sad but there's the truth!
Day 111 of Asia 2019 trip / Day 13 in China
Off to Anshun, where a delicious duck “dry pot” awaits us. We see more Guizhou scenary along the way.
Day 110 of Asia 2019 trip / Day 12 in China
Finally, we were off to see the two natural beauties that drove us to stop at Xingyi in the first place - Wanfenglin and Nading stone forest.
Day 109 of Asia 2019 trip / Day 11 in China
Had a lazy day today in Xingyi, Guizhou Province but we had a good dinner.
Day 108 of Asia 2019 trip / Day 10 in China
Xingyi (興義). It's a tier 4 city. I had asked a couple of Chinese people I knew back home about it and neither had heard of it. There was barely any information about the city online. Hop on to Wikipedia and there's about 4 lines of text about it. Guizhou province on the whole was completely unknown to us during our pre-holiday research and we had both thought we would simply breeze past it to get to Zhangjiajie. I was told that Guizhou was the home of Maotai, which seemed to be the only remarkable thing to note about the province, which was one of the poorest in the country. And now I know it's also the birthplace of Lao Gan Ma, the famous chilli oil.
Day 107 of Asia 2019 trip / Day 9 in China
So we were finally going to leave Kunming today. We've been here long enough! Except…
Ip + Bush = ish
Travel + ish + good food = travelishcious