Luodai Ancient Town

We were up in time to have a delightful breakfast at our place that was enough to satisfy us for most of the day.  We took a taxi to the local bus station to catch a real local bus to Luodai Ancient Town.  Jingjing stood in line only to find it was the wrong one and she rushed off to find the right one and called us over to the right bus and we hopped on and waited a few minutes and then we were off.  Noticeably we were the only white people on the bus which added to the fun.  We got off at the other end and found the gates to the Ancient Town and were impressed with it.  Wandering through here was incredible.

This little girl was posing for a photoshoot.

All sorts of dried fruit for sale -
we even saw kiwifruit wine.

This guy is making a muesli bar type of food.

It still amazes me what they use to cook with -
here it is a 44 gallon drum.  The food did look great.

And it would be right if you didn't have the
creepy crawlies to eat. and no I wasn't
brave enough to try one.

Wherever we went we were stopped for a chat.
This guy wanted to try his English.  We later
saw him with a hat similar to Bradley's.

Lunch time...late afternoon actually.
Jingjing is ordering a number of
different noodles and sauces for us.

Making the lunch from a side view.

Without the writing on the window.

Wayne enjoying his spicy one.
My non-spicy is in the picture too.

And yes I did eat it...this is actually
my 2nd bowl.

Lion dances in the street.

We bought some nuts of this guy
after he let us taste them.

A lady selling her wares.

I think this face has a thousand stories to
tell if only I could understand them.

delivering cinder blocks to the many
stall that use them.

It was again another day of wondrous things to see.  Finally it was time to catch the bus back to Chengdu.  Another experience for us.  You have to find the right line as a tourist it would have been hard to do.  You stand in the line as close as you can to the person in front of you as does the person behind you so that nobody can squeeze in.  While waiting a number of arguments broke out.  We had 10 minutes to wait for the bus and again we were the only white faces on the bus.  It amazed me on this trip just how often people took your photograph because you were different and stood out.  I can't count the number of times I realised there was a child walking beside me and then look up and there was her/his parent with their camera focussed on us.

Back at our hotel and it was time for Bradley and Jingjing to leave and head back to Mian Yang.  Looking back we had an action packed few days and we were/are very thankful that we had a local 'tour' guide with us.  She did an amazing job.