Left Lijiang at 08:45 for Dali. Lots of agriculture on the way (paddy fields etc.) all in small fields and plenty of manual labour.
At the norther outskirts of Dala we stopped at the Chongsheng Temple & Three Pagoda Tourist Centre where 5 of us explored the massive site while the others had a lunch break on the Truck. The site is really large and we could have spent much longer there. The largest Pagoda is 1400 years old and the other 2 are about 1000 yrs old and all 3 survived the devastating earthquake of 80 years ago when most of the building in the areas were destroyed. the templw was damaged, but all the building have now been repaired or rebuilt.
We then made to short journey to the Dali MCA hostel and we will explore Dali this evening before setting out tomorrow for the Laos border.
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