The most common way to getting
around Lugu Lake is by cycling, damn!! For unfortunate people like me that
can’t ride a bike, that’s a disaster. All of my partners in crime decided to
have biking trip, and then took the overpriced boat trip to the other side of
the lake, the Yunnan side. The boat ride getting to Lige or LuoShui cost around
90 Yuan per person, and renting car will cost 150 Yuan, but nobody wanted to
share that car with me, so I decided to try my luck on hitchhiking. I almost
gave up when realized no cars on the road, just some tourists biking around,
and the first motorbike that stopped, asked for money to take me to town. But
luckily after walked a bit farther, an empty minivan stopped to give me a ride, with
bonus-the driver was cute ;)
After arriving town, I need to
find cars heading to LuoShui as well, my best chance was when the bus arrives
at the afternoon, but it means I should wait for more than 5 hours in a small
town with relatively no attractions and you can go from one end to the other in
10 minutes walk. So I tried to hitchhike again,and not so long after a minivan
stopped, the driver asked for 30 Yuan to take me to LuoShui, it was a good deal
for me, so I hopped in. Apparently the minivan was rented by some aunties from
Shanghai for getting around the lake, and we made a lot of stops to take
pictures. Along the way, we saw lots of people biking, getting red like crabs
and sweating like a pig, one of the aunties said to the other “Look at them,
luckily we took the car” Couldn’t agree more!! LoL
I can easily say LuoShui is one
of my favorite place, nice weather, streets with cobbled stones, I could sit by
the lake doing nothing, singing along while plugged into music, and romantic
for sure. If only I had a lover there, I’d wish for time to stop, pfft…
The walking marriage practiced by
the local minority-the Mosuo, somehow spread more pheromones in the air. It’s a
matriarchal society, a woman kingdom where the grandmother becomes the head of the family. It sounds like paradise
for irresponsible men, they can get laid to as many girls as they want to,
don’t have to officially marry the girl, don’t have to earn money for the
family and don’t even have to raise the children. But in the other hand, it’s
kinda sad for type of family guys, they don’t have the social power and have no
rights for the woman they love, nor even their own children. If a woman and a
man are interested in each other, the man can come to her house at the night,
and BANG!! But he has to get back to his own house the next morning. If the
woman get pregnant, the child will be raised by the woman’s family. Most of the
children know exactly who their biological father is, but they won’t talk about
it in public. At school, it’s considered offensive asking the children, ‘who is
your father?’ And since they can’t raise
their own children, the men in the family usually help to raise his sister’s
children. That’s why, the women of Mosuo are typical hard worker and
independent ones, they have to work their ass off to earn money for the family.
I salute you Mosuo girls :D
I didn’t have any plan on where
to go next, until my dorm buddy-Mike the Oz guy, convinced me to do Tiger Leaping
Gorges. I should definitely thank him, it’s my personal piece of paradise on
earth :)
