A Day in Xiang Ge Li La
First thing to do this morning was buying airplane ticket.I went to airplaneb office in Xiang Ge Li La and asked if any ticket for Kun Ming from Shanglila on 7th of May is available. Only 22:00 ticket was available but I counld not make the connecting flight with this flight.I asked on tifcket on 6th, there is 4 flights but all flights are fully booked. (Due to Chinese Golden Week!!!)Then I gaved up to taking air and I went to bus terminal and also some good timetable ticket was sold out, but I could buy overnight bus ticket to Kun Ming any how.Then I went to visit tourist agent to set up tour, but I am lonely traveler, and the price was incredibly high.I gave up this idea. I went to monastry(Tibetan temple) Son Zan Rin Su by bus.This is the biggest one in Yunnnan Province, and over 700 monks are studying and doing "SHUGYO". Tibetan wall painting are very interesting. It was huge and really worth visiting. I spent almost two hours here.I was a bit hungry and found cheap (not so clean) restaurant? (shokudou)in front of this temple (no customer was there. )and ate stir flied feef and green peppers with spicy sauce (chinjyao beef), fried eggs and tomatoes and rice.Appearance of the restarurant was very bad and dirty,but the food tasted very good! Then I went to Napa Hai (Napa Kai) by taxi.It is 3266m high from sea level. and moist place and green grasses were covered on the ground. I saw a Tibetan people here, too.There were Yak, and horses.I enjoyed horse-riding there. I enjoyed picturesque scenery from top of the horse. Mountains were covered with snows and very beautiful. Then I went to market in the Shanglia City.Yak cheese was sold on the market, but nothing so much new was found.I enjoyed watching Tibetan women were playing cards(DAIFUGOU) betting money. One of the women was playing during feeding milk to her baby.(showing tits!) At night I went to see Tibetan music and dance.Tibetan alcoholic drink and butter tea (At, YH, Butter tea was served with breakfast, but I don"t like the flavor though. )and some snacks were served.I wanted to visit ordinally Tibetan peoples' house, but this was a kind of show place and very touristic. So It was differnt than I had expected, but it was OK.It was nice, but It was too long, becuase I didn't want to listend to audience talk and song between Tibetan dance and music. .(I rather wanted to go home earlier.) I was very exhausted today , Whenever I travel somewhere, I always feel that I want to trave more, I want to travel longer...but this time I want to go back to Japan.I dindn't have bad experience but I was just tired. I am bad at traveling for short time.