Kanding and its surrounding
- meganagathe
- 15 déc. 2017
- 2 min de lecture
Kanding is our last Tibetan stop in China. I have to say that our first day there was very nice! It was the first day in two months that we did nothing during the day!!! We still went out, one first time to relax in a “hot spring” and one second time to join in Tibetan dancing. It’s a kind of flashmob with a huge speaker in the middle and people dancing around. The second day we went hiking in a small mountain in kanding. The evening, Chinese people, mostly volunteers, who were working in the hostel were invited by a Tibetan friend of them to his house. Indeed, they were killing the pig this day which, in Chinese villages is a really big deal. The volunteers from the hostel, so nice, told us to come as well. It was a great night: They were so many people, everyone was singing, talking, laughing (well they were speaking in Chinese so we didn’t really got the jokes but it’s still looked really funny). We also had to sing one by one (thankfully we had already drank some glasses of “baijiu” 😉). And to top it off the food was incredibly good and there was so much of it. For every part of the pig, we had a different meal! One meal for the dry blood, another for the liver, fat, body…
The day after we went in Tagong, also called “the little lhassa”, and only a few hours from Kangding. However, bad luck, it was a small village and during the low season every hostel was apparently closing… We tried knocking on a few hostel’s doors, but no one answered. We thus decided to still go do the hikes we were planning to do and then come back to Kangding. After we found a minivan we had to wait 2 hours before it would actually leave. The waiting was quite funny – every Chinese of the village was circling around us and of course none could speak English which gave us a great opportunity to practice our Chinese. One, a “doctor”, made me sit on a chair in front of him to examine me… Once again, every Tibetan were around me smiling. I was of course sick – I think my heart and my head was bad… And his remedy to cure me: water infuse with a small piece of stag horn which cost 30 euros only! Well, I think I’m gonna stay sick :p Anyhow, we arrived in Kangding in the end, in front of the surprised eyes of the volunteers of the hostel, before leaving the next morning for Chengdu.
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