In the morning of our second day in Kunming, we all boarded the tourist car, we rode for about an hour before getting to this restaurant in a different county. It was somewhat near the Stone Forest and was famous for its Peking Duck and fish. Both of those dishes are apparently famed all over China, and they themselves are big attractions for a China trip. So it was pretty exciting to get to able to try it. Unfortunately, I was underwhelmed by the duck. It was served on a small plate and was basically slices of duck skin with a little meat clinging to it. It was oily and not too fantastic in my opinion. The other people at my table had the same impression. However the people at the other table were shocked that we had not finished our duck, so they took ours, among other dishes because they had most of the boys at their table. I wanted to like the duck, but I guess it just did not suit my taste buds.
The other famous dish, which was some kind of fish, came out in a big pot and I found it to be absolutely delicious. The broth it was in was spicy and the fish was full of small bones, but the fish meat was really savory and yummy. The other table had a blast eating the fish eyeballs again, so we gave them the head of our fish. Apparently the fish cheeks have the most delicious meat, but the fish cheeks of our fish had been separated from the head.
After that very filling lunch, we rode the bus to the Stone Forest. We all naturally split up into groups, so it ended up that Lewis, Jordan, Sammy, Carolyn, Sinead and I were in one group. We walked around and did our best to avoid the hordes of tourists who made it difficult to even see the popular sites. Still, we managed to take a lot of pictures and worm our way through the crowds to more isolated areas. We tried to follow some signs that said “Ancient Painted Rocks,” and even though we followed the whole path through, we never saw the painted rocks.
After that we followed signs that said “Eternal Mushroom,” and while we were walking the group shrunk a little further to just Lewis, Sinead, and me. Lewis began to whistle and sing Disney songs which he knew quite well. He is also a fantastic whistler, so it was a lot of fun listening to him. He also babbled a lot and we, including Lewis, concluded that he was delirious. We joined up with Jordan and Carolyn and walked a long way until finally finding the Eternal Mushroom, which in fact were five pillars of rocks with mushroom heads.
On our way back, we saw different rocks like the “Mother and Son,” which really did look like a son following his mother. We also saw a rock that looked like a mother holding her baby. We were really worried about making it back to the entrance in time since we were so far away, but we managed to make it back just before 4pm, which was when we were supposed to be there. The other groups trickled in and we left around 4:30pm. Apparently one of the groups, containing Peter and Kat, climbed a lot of the rocks and received scratches all over their hands and legs. However they got awesome pictures. I do not think I would have been able to climb like they did, knowing my fear of heights. The rocks they climbed on were at least several stories high, too.
All in all, it was a fun trip. The next cities for our China tour are Dali and Lijiang.
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