Jinghong Travel Guide

 hooiluangoh Says:  It's very nice to drink this right after you eat the spicy mango (with chilli powder, salt, sugar etc). (RMB1)There is also another choice of fruit - cucumber. Mixed with soy sauce, salt, sugar etc. (RMB1)The stall is usually manned by a woman. The drink is served in a... 

 l_joo Says:  Super cheap, if you want to rent bicycles, at the bus station, near the toilet, a young man rent bicycles at less than 10yuan. Just grab one and you can explore the city, not really that big, bicycles are more than enough. 

 l_joo Says:  Watermelon tip comes with a Jinghongese woman in blue top with sarong eating some fruits not bird's seeds while sitting with her is a sack of fertilizer and two fatty woven baskets while pineapples as supporting role lying in between while a man partly seen sitting in black... 

 l_joo Says:  Now if you look closer into this tip in hyper-concentration for 5 minutes without a blink of your eyes, you will be assured a full complete happiness of what she did there with her newly born baby inside a colorful traditional ermm...backpack. Please do click the picture to... 

 l_joo Says:  Woman in traditional outfit looking for eggs to buy, but for what pupose I ain't quite sure, I am looking with my tourist's point of view, I am very sure this kind of shot is not to be missed, although its the back shot but it save me time to take front shot. To do front... 

 l_joo Says:  See, the market is so jampacked with bicycle involve as well. Walking to the end has much more interesting stuffs to shoot and see. This photo is not clear when peoples are moving but still objects are clear enough. 

 l_joo Says:  A woman is seen here selling vegetables in crouching position. Most of them still squating because they lay their stuffs on the floor. I can walk around with camera shooting from my standing angle. Lots of photogenic scenes, I wish I have more time to explore. They are not... 

 l_joo Says:  Vegetable vendors in motion of special camera effects? No it was my hand lose control when I press the button. It was not easy to capture this scene when the sunlight is weak. I'm not a photographer in top techniques or skills, if you have any idea to improve my photography... 

 l_joo Says:  Now we have two guys selling fruits the same way as a tip above also very heavy walking all over the place in the early morning. This is a mother and son at the back street nearby the crowded market. Never under estimate women in China, they are very strong in physical... 

 l_joo Says:  A man selling fruits in traditional way when I was eating my breakfast of porridge and pow. I saw him walking with such heavy load of basket fruits from one end to the other, sure much heavier than my backpack. He must be very strong in his shoulder, if I did like him, I... 

 l_joo Says:  Women busy packing up their bought items in bags, although I don't want to know what that is but quite sure it was something for eat by humans. Again it was not a good shot due to bad photography skills and my cheap digital camera. I will not use it anymore. 

 hooiluangoh Says:  The name Xishuang Banna actually is a corrupted translation from the Thai language. Sip Song means twelve ( ten two), and Banna apparently means rice fields.Go to the outskirts and enjoy these rice fields view fully. Yup, they are planted in the water. 

 l_joo Says:  Snap from the minority's village in year 2002, my first trip with a gang of five. I visited their house and sit with them taking many photos as well as drinking tea with them and listening to their village talk. The young lady that spoken to me was a modern girl where she...