So last weekend I went to the Yunnan Nationalities Village, it’s a huge park with the 25 different ethnic group represented in Yunnan. In China there are 56 different ethnic groups, and in Yunnan Province there are a major presence of those 25 ethnic groups. It was super interesting, Each Ethnic group village had the traditional buildings and each room was set up like “back in the day” So let us enter the first village

They had this huge layout that was circular, I don’t really know how to describe it but on the outer ring the 12 symbolic animals were placed, then the next level where 6 spheres that were black and white, (yin and yang) and the centerpiece was a totem with all the animals on it. Somebody almost photobombed this picture, but hey weren’t very successful

Photobombing = someone trying to jump into your picture at the last moment to be in it. We have had wars with this.

The next ethnic village we went to was the Zhaung ethnic group, this is a picture of one of their traditional rooms. Pretty cool.

Here is photo of a building set up. This is the building of the Muslim ethnic group in China, The Hui ethnic group.

Sorry don’t have much to say about this place, it was really really cool but, a week ago so I forget some details. Fun thing though, We had a minder following us the entire day,i feel this is the first government official following us that we noticed. Who's to know if they have been doing that with all the tourist places we have been to. Anyways tonight I’m taking an overnight train to Da li to take part in Mid-Autumn Festival, back to this train thing though…. 8 hours we leave at 11 and I haven’t slept on public transportation since I was 12. Hope I can sleep.

It took me awhile to slide my fat ass into this giant windpipe thing.

7 days till i am back in the US.