Hi to all of you kaaa!
I took a 6-day group tour to Kunming, Dali, and Lijiang, came back yesterday evening and am still tired, reminding me of visiting China while I can ....lonnnnnnng walks and thin air are the toughest kaaa
Got some learning about this part of the country plus several others from the trip to share with you na ka.
- Surprised to find English proficiency level of people in the tourist attraction places and it makes me feel a little better about our own vendors and hotel receptionists ka.
I used a house phone in one Hyatt chain hotel to ask for a golf car.... to find it hard to communicate in simple English ka. I had to press my poor brain to give them both the name of the building and the room number in Chinese.
- Our tour guide, as expected, was really fluent in Thai with an expansive vocabulary. She told us stories about different tribes in China.... My most impressive/unimpressive one is about the Naxi tribe. Here it goes ka:
-- In this culture, guys have the advantage of being so very sabai since wives will take responsibility for being the main income earners of the families. We saw women sell apples, peaches and other fruits in season to tourists, carrying two buckets in two hands. This culture requires plump women strong enough to earn money and do housework ka. The husbands enjoy their time at home, drawing or reading and drinking. Some wives would have to go to look for their drunken husbands and bring them home.
Even though I understand how familiar the Naxi women are with their own context and culture, I couldn't help thinking of today's world on gender equality. Glad I was born a Thai, not this tribe. If I were born there, I'd be a rebel, keeping slim and urging guys to go work too kaa !
- One little thing about food ka.....we were spoiled with too much food to eat and I couldn't help but feel bad about the food waste. On the last day when we had lots left, the restaurant offered lots of boxes to bring them back home. For us in Thailand, we'd be giving to our drivers or even our own selves. There, we couldn't give it to the driver. He wouldn't accept it and would consider it an insult ka. OUr guide would only offer to security guards or bring back home ka.
- China has been so advanced in many aspects and I can see the visionary leadership of the government from the investment on infrastructure, housing, and systematic approaches at the tourist spots like specific time and numbers for group visits, etc. Definitely, there are gaps between main and smaller cities but things are developing much further. People have to sacrifice their own privacy since CCTVs are everywhere, making them more disciplined and life could be safer in a way because the government can go after thieves or those with misconducts quite easily.
It's good to go abroad once in a while to come out of our sabai box, meeting new peoples and cultures. Among the group members, I learned quite a few stories that reflect today's Chinese Thai business and families too ka....very interesting and glad to see them stay close to one another ka.
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