Shilin

Today is sunday... let's have a break.
We went to shilin yesterday: the "stone forest" situated 100 km from kunming.
We took the train in the morning. did i mention we missed the train the day before? we arrived at 10:50 for a train at 10:40 : that doesn't work, even in china... we made 2 fatal mistakes: we leave from our appartment 10 minutes late, and we missed a bus stop.
anyway, this time we arrived at 10:00. everybody is already here and queuing for the train! the doors open shortly after we arrived: everyone rushes to the tracks to get on board. it's weird cause they do have numeroted seats. we don't cause the day before we change our tickets (we didn't pay again, that was cool!)
we do find seats but of course we get kicked out... we finaly stand next to the guard office (one in every "car") and the kaishui(hot water) tap. we then went to the restaurant car where we ordered an early lunch. (less than 2 hours, 19 kuai)
Shilin was nice place to walk around. we met an english teacher in china travelling around with a chinese guy, and we visited shilin together (after a late lunch). it was a really nice tour. we came back by bus at 17:00 (there are no train back! about 2 hours by the normal way, 20 kuai).
My bike, that was parked in front of our building has disapeared, already. :-(