Zhoucheng village, our next stop, was where we visited a Bai tie-died cloth factory. The 5 or 6 step process seemed to be very time and labor intensive but the finished products were beautiful. (Which of course we couldn’t resist buying.)
We had lunch in a restaurant located on an old cobble-stoned street in part of Dali where the most of the shops are only open during the Spring when the Burma Jade merchants come thru to sell their jade. Food was good we had spring rolls, meat, rice, watermelon, and fried cheese (what ever kind of cheese it was – it wasn’t as good as the goat cheese). Cathy had to keep taking breaks anytime a group was ‘toured’ pass our table, because she didn’t want them to laugh at her chopstick skills or rather lack of
