Here are the highlights of day 4: BuYi tribe dance performance, WangFong lake (10 Thousands peak lakes), DuPhoThang waterfall and a visit to a night market.
We stayed not at a usual hotel this time. It is more of a resort style. The lights are dim and it is difficult to read your room number pasted on the door.
I woke up and take a picture of a mosquito like insect on the wall outside my room.
The hotel has only 2 floors and is surrounded by gardens and pools. It is a shame we stayed only for 1 night in this hotel.
Guizhou is well known for its rocky lands, and here is an example of large, beautiful in its own, natural rock, unearthed and turn into a monumental art piece near the entrace of the hotel.
Talking about this rocks, in fact, many buildings in Guizhou has this kind of rocks as ornaments, and along the way traveling here and there we went pass quarry and some shops selling these rocks, that comes in many sizes. Here is the relatively larger one.
The smaller ones are usually found next to a bonsai collections.
Anyway after breakfast, we left the hotel and ready for more traveling.
This was the so called free and easy day, well ... mostly, where optional tour was being offered. Our local (Chinese) tour leader, Yuan Yuan put on her maximum charm and manage to get most of us agree to part SGD$80 or RMB400 per person for 3 additional itineraries: BuYi tribe dance troupee performance in the morning, a short cruise around WangFong lake (10 Thousands peak lakes) plus lunch of especially cooked fish with a special green chili grown in Guizhou, and a visit to a night market.
The was only one planned itinerary, DuPhoThang waterfall to cover afternoon travel time.
So here we were, at the entrance of an old family house of BuYi tribe.
I am not sure if the colourful flags are part of their culture or that is simply a decoration.
As you can see, most of the tour group members are senior citizen, which is a surprise as this trip requires a lot of walking and going up/down staircases.
First we are greeted by cute and cuddly puppies.
After playing with them, we were then ushered into a dimly lit room of a wooden house where the dance performance began. Similar to Miao tribe, BuYi tribe is also known for their singing ability. You will be able to listen to them when I have time to upload the video to YouTube, for now I can only offer these photos.
The dance below depicted the traditional courtship method where during festivals a group of young women will barter songs with a group of young men. When a lady is interested to a particular man, she will throw a decorated red pouch, and when the man reciprocates the initiation, he will catch the red pouch.
The dance below demonstrate how the women folded their traditional head dress which is made from a piece of long cloth.
Men of BuYi tribe has special dance in traditional celebration to scare evil spirits. Probably they will scare off more kids.
This musician is particularly fond of his picture to be taken. He constantly smiled and probably the most photogenic of all.
While this old man, possibly the senior of the dance troupe, does not want to smile at all.
Buyi tribes is also known for their ability to make music using a leaf.
And with that we bid farewell to the dance troupe, while some other members hanged a banner on the roadside, beside their home.
We then made our way to WangFong lake.
Yuan Yuan is in the picture (bottom right, wearing orange sweater.
Here are some shots around the lake.
There is no shot of the fish. It was over in a minute. It was HOT, and I do mean hot as I am quite a chili eater, but very yummy too.
We said good bye to WangFong lake and head to DuPhoThang waterfall.
Along the way I took quite interesting photo of the villages and villagers but I have no time to post them yet. However this photo is a representative of them:
Finally we reached DuPhoThang waterfall. It was almost dusk, so there is quite heavy editing done on this photo.
There are plenty of water fowls such as mandarin ducks and black swans as well as herons feeding in the river. I will post their picture later.
After dinner, we then make our way to the night market. It was drizzling and the night market was not that great at all. The only highlight was a long queue for rice crackers (BiPan) which was made from a mixture of rice, nuts, sesame seeds (black and white) and caramels. Locals queued up for it and we followed the crowd. No regrets on that. It was hot from the oven and really yummy.
I took this photo of the shutter of a shop after it is closed.
Thats all for day 4.
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