Dali - day 3

 On the third and final day in Dali I wanted to see the mountain behind the town. The entrance to the area was less than 2 km away from my B&B so I decided to walk there. There were actually three entrances with every one of them having a cable lift up the mountain. I decided to take the shortest one, mainly because it was the nearest. There were not many people around, this being the winter, although the Ancient City was quite crowded. The lift took about 30 minutes. On my way up, I noticed that there were graves on the hillside. I thought this was quite strange as there didn’t seem to be any paths up there. Most of the graves also looked like they hadn’t been visited for years but some seemed to have fresh flowers. Even if they were plastic flowers, they didn’t look very old so maybe there were some paths on the hillside.

Up on the mountain side I walked only a short distance, the path would have been about 6,5 km to the next cable lift but the scenery was very much what you would have seen in Finland, i.e. pine forest, so I soon turned back and went down again.

I spent the afternoon resting in my room and in the evening just had a quick walk in the town and had my dinner there.