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Yunnan Province; China

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2004-09-14 15:37:29

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tourists, but it seems that we are the main tourist attraction here and not the cable car. In Dali old town you see tourist groups walk the same 30 minutes route which start at seven in the morning till ten in the evening. When we reach Lijiang we see all tourists making the same picture and sometimes three times within the same family on the same spot (and very static). When a picture is taking they do a count down, but the girl didn’t move for the last three minutes!!

´Leaving a road of destruction´ or ´the Chinese chicken´

So far we have managed order to delicious dishes of Chinese food. In fact we look forward to the lunch and diner every day. With our phrase book we simply ask for beef, pork or chicken, then pointing to one or two types of vegetables and we have always left the other ingredients to the cook and received something wonderful. This time it’s different. Raymond looks at me and whispers in Dutch ‘I just saw them carry a live chicken into the kitchen’. The next thing we hear is (what we think is) an axe hitting the kitchen table several times. We fall silent. The waitress serves us rice and the two other dishes with fried vegetables. The third dish is a delicious one with fried slices of pork in chilli and vegetables. We start eating, curious about the chicken to come. Maybe it wasn’t for us, although we are the only guests. Ten minutes later the waitress serves a roughly chopped chicken, boiled and served in a big bowl of water. ‘Isn’t that the head of the chicken’ says Raymond and picks it up with his chopsticks. Two days after this ‘incident’ they had to get the (already dead and picked) chicken from the neighbours. And the next day another chicken was slaughtered for us. It seems we are leaving a road of dead chickens behind us…

Murray the tourist attraction.

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