Cheap Whine: Unexpected Holiday Weekend

We had an unplanned four day weekend because the Chinese decided to throw themselves a party in celebration of 70 years since the Japanese were defeated in WWII. I had heard wonderful things about the Linden Center in Yunnan Province which is near the border of Myanmar. It did not disappoint. Beautiful scenery, wonderful food, interesting history and culture.

Amazing scenery

Cheese making, which was a surprise since typically the Chinese don't like cheese. She separated it and then wrapped it around the poles in the below picture where it dried. It tasted a bit like mozzarella.

Making rice noodle dough

This was a birthday cake and it was filled with brown sugar. It was probably a foot and a half in diameter and cost around fifteen dollars.

These are their version of a rain jacket. It's made out of palm leaves and is worn like a backpack

The rain jacket at work on a farmer with his donkeys

These were the keepers of a temple and they were rolling incense sticks as show in the below picture

This little guy followed us all the way down the mountain and the boys named him "Gregory"

Corn was drying everywhere

The people were so interesting looking and a lot wore the traditional clothing. Most women had baskets on their backs for either food or children

From the terrace of our hotel. We ate here every lunch and dinner

The area is known for its tie dye (yes those are marijuana leaves on the left - the area is also known for that plant growing wild and it's depicted in the tie dye) and again, the drying corn.

Front white cloth is the pre-dyed cloth. It's sewn, cinched and then wound up with more thread. The front white cloth will look like the blue one behind it after dyed.