Before visiting this marketplace, we spent a morning wandering through the most visited site in Yunnan, the Stone Forest. Rain prevented me from shooting good pictures of the bizarre formations of the petrified mountains of stone. Sami people work as tour guides in the park and also sell fish, spices, garlic, and vegetables at this nearby village market.
This woman was patting together dozens of dumpling wrappers for my favorite Chinese delicacy, vegetable dumplings.
This vendor dressed in her traditional garb measured out vegetables carefully.
We saw corn everywhere. Here we found it spread neatly on the street to dry.
Sami women are known for their intricate embroidery. In this country courtyard we watched as a young woman hand-sewed tapestries and table cloths. Nearby, elderly women in open-air stalls were pulling apart silk thread by hand.
This mother and her baby live aboard this passenger/fishing boat on
Erhai Lake. She makes and sells bead bracelets to tourists on the boat. I bought several
for my grandchildren.
At over 18,000 feet the stunning snow-covered Jade Dragon Snow Mountain has never been conquered by man. I couldn't conquer it with a clear photographic view that day, though I tried. We ascended the mountain in a chair lift to almost 11,000 feet. Breathing with difficulty, I hiked slowly through the alpine fir forest at the mountain-top but couldn't catch a good glimpse of the snow-capped mountain peak. My best shot occurred as I rode down the chair lift.
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