Enjoying the Beautiful Scenery by the Lakeside in Dali, ChIna

The new hotel where we were staying is close to the lake and has a spacious balcony on the second floor. We stood out and admired the waterfront. Then J started to show S. and me how to do some exercises. He especially wantd to point out his dad's problem area and wanted to help him to correct them. What a good son!

There was a restaurant close to the hotel and we went for a brunch there. We had a good meal, reasonable priced at a beautiful venue. Always desiring to support local business, we all bought a shirt and had some nice pictures taken with our new white blue Bai tops. After that, we ventured out to explore the lakeside area. BEAUTIFUL! I had never seen such beautiful scenery and stated to cry while making the video since having lived in the west for the past five decades, everything we heard from the mainstream media about China was negative. I thought China was like a hell and its people were monsters. How ignorant and wrong have we been misunderstanding such kind and hardworking people!

It was raining a bit so we went in a restaurant for lunch and to waited out the rain. After lunch, we went near the water. J wanted to sit by the lake and we chose a rock and stayed there for a little while enjoying the water, the scenery and the quietness. It was peaceful and tranquil! No loud music blasting from iphones nor motor vechicle noises from nearby autos. It was nature at its best, peaceful, quiet with a blue blue sky and mountains close by. J went in for a dip, and swam for a few minutes, then he asked his dad to join him to wet his feet a little. I went wetting my feet. It was a nice relaxing time and it reminded me of our old cabin by the lake in Canada. I kind of missed that lovely lakefront place in Ontario.

I wished we could have stayed around the this lovely lake side area longer but we needed to go to the train station to fix S’s train ticket as there was a mistake on the passport number when purchasing the first ticket. After a little while, we were no longer able to purchase online tickets as it must be done in person to correct that mistake. We called a cab to go into Dali’s downtown train terminal. It was painfully slow as the traffic going in and out of Dali’s ancient city was always heavy creating a big traffic jam both night and day. The 14 km trip took over an hour. By the time we went to town, it was getting dark and we didn’t see much of the city. We went to a nice restaurant in Dali downtown and enjoyed an early dinner. We have discovered on this trip that there are a lot of nicely decorated restaurants serving delicious food everywhere we go. It's not a problem finding a place to have a good meal at affordable prices in China. After our nice dinner, we went to the train station and bought our tickets for tomorrow to Chuxiong. The train staff was very polite and patient, taking the time to help us. We appreciate their help a lot. We had to move to another hotel for the night becasue we got mixed up with the date in booking. We were exhausted at the end of each busy day; we slept well. RT Dali, Yunnan, China 08072023