Dali Ancient City

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Continuing from where I left, after I left Kunming, the journey continued to Dali. I wasn't expecting to see anything exciting since it was already late in evening when I reached there. When we turn in a road, there was a pleasant surprise... there was a super-sized biggest brightest full moon I ever saw. It doesn't look great on the photo :P, but the whole scene is printed in my memory, so mesmerizing.

super full moon over the Erhai Lake 

~N Hotel Dali~

We checked into a pretty cool hotel - N-Hotel Dali, a funky boutique hotel with modern futuristic concept with a traditional chinese garden around.
N Hotel - bedroom - not well lit at night

N Hotel - night view outside 1
N Hotel - night view outside 2 ~ there is place for people to gather for a few shots

N Hotel - outside the room is a small Chinese garden
Outside the room is an open area, it will get kind of noisy in the morning when people pulling their luggage over the cobblestone road.
N Hotel - outside the room 

N Hotel

~Tian Long Ba Bu Film Studio~

This is a fun place we dropped by the next morning. This is a not any ancient city, it's just a fake city built for the TV series filming purposes. It imitates the Dali downtown streets during the Song Dynasty. I have not this drama before but it was still interesting to step in there.

main entrance - view from outside

entrance - view from inside

a broken piece of stone telling what this title of the story means

another view from inside

some sort of vehicle used for war

a huge piece of imperial edict

criminal carriage - saw this alot of times on tv... lol

not sure who is this pretty lady

walked through this enter the 'imperial palace'

'ancient' door handle
I really like the blue sky and the hills around.
this place is surrounded by range of hills

Here is fake palace - nothing interesting here.
'imperial palace'



costume jewelry sold here

toy swords are available too
Haha... there was a free show of how ancient people getting a husband for their daughter.
receiving the imperial edict from the officials

the bride is pretty

~Dali ancient city~

 Dali ancient city is one of the top scenic spot in Dali. Unfortunately the whole time spent there was quite wasteful as this old city is too commercialised. 
entrance ticket for Dali ancient city
Dali is known as city producing lots of silver, be it silverware or jewelry.
workers working on the silver

very diligently carving the piece of silver
As we walked along the streets, we noticed most shops selling the same thing, silver, shawl, textiles... things get a little bit boring as we walked on.
row of shops in the ancient city

some of the silverware displayed infront of the shop
Some of the weird stuff Chinese people enjoy eating...
wanna have some exquisite food?

Although it's very commercialised, it still remained authentic
walking along the street
... Still giving good impression of the past... feel not bad at all walking around on a cooling late morning.


ancient city view
Another kind of weird food... fried milk piece. I didn't like it.
street food in ancient city

Overall,  Dali hasn't much interesting places to offer. It is only good for a short stop by while on the way to Shangri-la County.











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