Hello David,
In Wu’s excellent company, we spent four extraordinary days, outside of time, meeting a variety of ethnic communities. Discovering these rice terraces, and all the ancestral farming work needed to maintain and preserve them, made a deep impression on us. Beyond their postcard beauty, what stays with us most is the courage, perseverance and everyday humility of the women and men who work them.
The many visits throughout the tour were of high quality, not to mention the delicious meal offered by a Yi family and our wanderings through markets from another era! And let’s not forget the hotels, which were also beautiful.
We can’t finish this feedback on our all-too-short stay in Yunnan without mentioning Wu… a very professional young man whose excellent English allowed us not only to talk with the different communities, but also to have long discussions with him about his fellow citizens and the history of his vast country. Without him, we would never have set foot in that mushroom restaurant in Tonghai and tasted that delicious soup!!
Wu is an excellent guide who broke down many of our preconceptions about the Chinese people.
We hope to see you again, perhaps on other Roads…
Florence and Philippe