Still from Kanding, from my hotel room
I had a nice dinner despite the late hour. Most of the restaurants are closed. Stopped at a first one they could only speak chines, I don't and since I want to eat vegetarian I didn't try at pointing anything on the menu (in Chinese only of course).
Then I had the idea of finding a Tibetan (you recognize them by the way they dress) and ask them to order for me. When I was almost back at my hotel, I passed in front of a very small (and far from clean) chinese restaurant with four Tibetan women at one of the two tables. I went to them and relatively easily explained them that I wanted to have something without meat. Noodle soup & vegetable it will be.
I chatted a bit with them, with the "usual" type of question: Where are you from? How old are you? Do you have kids? What's your work? All of them had two kids as minorities are allowed to have two kids in China. They all greeted me when the left and told me that they had paid for my dinner. Isn't that great?
When returning to my room, I discovered that there was a telephone line. As someone nicely tipped me a few weeks ago, there is a free number valid in all chine where you can connect via dial-up without registration necessary. I really had to try, so here I'm, in pajamas with my laptop typing this post. It's working quite well :-)
But it's almost 11.30 pm. I brush my teeth and go to bed! By the way, I just noticed that it's nice to stay close to the bus station when you have to walk there with your bags, but maybe it's not the ideal place to have silence at night :-(Still from Kanding, from my hotel room
Then I had the idea of finding a Tibetan (you recognize them by the way they dress) and ask them to order for me. When I was almost back at my hotel, I passed in front of a very small (and far from clean) chinese restaurant with four Tibetan women at one of the two tables. I went to them and relatively easily explained them that I wanted to have something without meat. Noodle soup & vegetable it will be.
I chatted a bit with them, with the "usual" type of question: Where are you from? How old are you? Do you have kids? What's your work? All of them had two kids as minorities are allowed to have two kids in China. They all greeted me when the left and told me that they had paid for my dinner. Isn't that great?
When returning to my room, I discovered that there was a telephone line. As someone nicely tipped me a few weeks ago, there is a free number valid in all chine where you can connect via dial-up without registration necessary. I really had to try, so here I'm, in pajamas with my laptop typing this post. It's working quite well :-)
But it's almost 11.30 pm. I brush my teeth and go to bed! By the way, I just noticed that it's nice to stay close to the bus station when you have to walk there with your bags, but maybe it's not the ideal place to have silence at night :-(Still from Kanding, from my hotel room
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