Day 6: Detian Waterfall

The roads today are alittle better but seriously speaking, there is not much of a difference. One more thing that I learned today, truck drivers are the best person to ask for directions as they run around the whole of china from day to day.



I am riding into the countryside today and so despite the not so good roads, at least the scenery got better.



So, after 2 days of long endureance ride plus another 4-5 hours of hard ride today, I finally got to my first place of interest, the Detian Waterfall.



This waterfall, with a length of over 200 meters is shared between Vietnam and China, with most of it in China's land.



Here's a picture of the waterfall. You can see Veitnam on the other side.



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You can choose to walk in to explore the waterfall or you can choose to ride a horse.



I walked all the way in, wanting to to get to the border so that I can see this boundary stone.



But it turned out that there are some tension at this booundary and so it is off limit to tourist.



Anyway, you can also take a boat ride to get up close and personnal with the waterfall.





Me at the top of the waterfall, looking at China on the left and Vietnam on the right.



After the visit to the waterfall, I carried on my way. I took the road that run along the border of China and Vietnam. Not only are they in good condition, it is winding and twisting which makes it fun to ride. They are not much traffic here as I guess there is nothing much to offer. Today is the first day that I rode dry, no rain. But the weather is hot and just as I thought it would be nice to have a dip in the water, I saw some cows enjoying themselves, cooling off the heat. They made me so jealous.



The scenery is just as good even after I got off the border road. I love riding in the countryside.









After another few hours of riding, I finally arrived at the province of my interest, YUNNAN!!



After crossing from GuangXi into Yunnan, the landscape changes greatly. Here, it is the land of the mountains.



As the sky is getting dark, I made a stopover at a small town. As you can see, this town is still developing and constructions are in progress.



Is this the Yunnan style of dinning? Low tables and low stools?



There is also a park in this small town but I just dont understand why they choose to use green lights to brighten up the trees. It looks kind of errie to me.





The Chinese love to gamble and I see them playing MAHJONG and cards along the streets. It is interesting to note that they stack up the mahjongs tiles in layers of 3 where in Singapore we stack in 2 and when they PONG or CHI, they don't display out the tiles in front of them. They discard them away just like throwing out your unwanted tile. Interesting yeah? Let's travel!!!

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