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Shilin means Stone Forest. It is a national park, and more and more tourists are coming, and the town and county are prospering. The people there are the most wretched among the 26 Yi tribes. The nobility among them are those in Liang Shan (Cool Mountains) in Sichuan. These 26 groups can hardly communicate with one another. They have a written language, but most of them cannot read it now.
Here are the tour guides: On the train:
On the bus:
In front of the waterfall:
The waterfall is taller than the Yellow Fruit Tree Fall in neighboring
Guizhou province, which claimed to be the largest in Asia.
Here is the Large Stone Forest:
The whole short tour is 6 km. they said, but turned out to be not as
stenuous as we thought. The little trails among the rocks are just
like in some caves in US or Guizhou, and so is very cool. The only
difference is there is a narrow sky over us.
This lovely Singapore sister voluntarily held Gloria's hand
and helped her go up and down the steps. She chatted with a lot of our team
members and witnessed to the tour guides, sometimes singing How Great Thou
Art or other great songs. A life bubbling with joy.
Now some scenes from a pavillion over the top rock:
You see this is really a Bryce Canyon of China.
Neighboring is the Little Stone Forest, with a lot of
lawns and the rocks rose like stonehenges or monuments.
Some more rocks around the railway station,
outside the National Park:
A tea serving demo, just like the one I've been to in Chongqing last year. There I bought 3 cans of tea for something like $15 US after the demo, and they lasted for quite a few months in US. But somehow what I bought were not as tasty as during the demo. This time the 4 courses of tea were delicious, but I am smart enough not to buy any.
We stayed on the 13th floor of the best hotel in Shilin town,
and here is the scene from the window:
Town center is a traffic hub, just next to the hotel:
Our friends teach English in this school.
A "taxi" with 3 rows of seats:
This is a nice park:
In the park is this memorial to a 46 year old teacher who dove
into water to save a student, but got drowned herself. Chinese students
regard their teachers as their own parents.
A final photo of a beautiful lake on our way back to Kunming:
