8 days 7 nights trip to Yunnan - Kunming, Dali, Lijiang

24 October 2007
1st day – flying to Kunming with MAS

The taxi dropped by to pick me up at 6.15 am after picking Chooi Tau at 6.00 am. We reached KLIA at 7.00 am and the taxi fare was RM80.00. We have our breakfast at a café after checking in. The flight took off at 10.00 am, a delay of about half an hour due to heavy traffic and all the planes have to line up to take off. We have our lunch in the plane.

Our plane landed at Kunming Airport at 1.30 pm. The Chine tour guide is a tough young guy name Jiang He (姜河). He asked us to call him Xiao Hei (小黑) or "Little Black". In Kunming, instead of addressing a lady "miss", we have to call "Ashima" for women of any age, and "Ah Hei Ge" (black brother) for all men.

Our Kunming tour guide "Little Black" is a very knowledgeable, joyous, passion in his job and good story teller. It was the first in my life that I met such an excellent story teller who is so well verse in history, can be so lively and elicit in linking the story to a truth. He belongs to the “Yi” ethnic minority.