Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Where Stones Look Like People

The day after the tournament a couple friends from the tournament (Alec, Phil, Andrea, and Jacob) and I made our way to the Stone Forest a couple of hours outside Kunming. It was basically a maze-like area of large stone pillars and crazy looking formations. A great place to explore and wander around, but it would have been even better to play paintball in... Here are a couple pictures to give you an idea of what it looked like...

A view of the whole forest

Stone that looked like an elephant

One of the highlights of our adventures in Stone Forest was the spotting of Asia's biggest mullet. We saw this guy while we were exploring one of the formations and I backtracked through hordes of Chinese tour groups. After a couple minutes, my stalking paid off and I snapped some pretty sweet shots. Reminded me of the good old times mullet hunting in Wal-mart in Central PA...

Back view of Asia's biggest mullet

Side view of Asia's biggest mullet

We also had the pleasure of eating in a restaurant with the most incomprehensible English menu I've ever seen. It was almost completely gibberish. You'll have to look closely at this one, but check out the words in red...

- Jon

2 comments:

Hugh said...

awesome menu. clearly, the owner's english-knowing friend has terrible handwriting, while the owner is detail-focused to a fault and owns a typewriter with no "u".

Unknown said...

So what did you end up ordering?