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I ended up spending most time in the north-central city of Dali. It is located in the most temperate part of Yunnan: cooler than Xishuangbanna and sunnier than Shangri-La, bounded by a mountain range to the west and a large lake to the east. The local people are the Bai, whose cultural practices are proximate to the Han’s. My home was a wooden farmhouse in a Bai village at the foot of the mountains. If I stayed closer to the lake, the houses would be made of attractive stone, ornamented with wooden carvings and ink paintings on white wall. The Bai have a long culture of craftmaking, producing marbleware or tie-dye linens for trade.
Up until the early 2000s, a different Bai product attracted foreign travelers: cannabis, which grew freely around Dali. Foreigners in Beijing or Shanghai would reminisce about the good old days in Dali, where one could be beckoned by a smiling lady into an alley to purchase a baggie. The cannabis trade has been stamped out. Nowadays, it is not foreigners who travel to Dali to toke a joint, but Chinese who visit for a harder drug: cryptocurrency, NFTs, and other web3 paraphernalia. A great deal of China’s crypto community has relocated in recent years to Dali. It is not that the city has wanted to attract them; rather, its appeal is more general.
Dali has sunny weather, nice hikes, and a big lake. I reminisce about its open-air markets, where every morning one can go to pick up fresh vegetables, fruits, rice noodles, and all sorts of pickles. Dali offers fertile farmland, attracting China’s burgeoning young organic farmers. It has a significant foreign population that has set up sourdough bakeries, cafés with excellent croissant, and clubs playing techno. The first outdoor rave I came across in China was at an orchard in Dali. It attracts urban families as well: parents of young children would bring kids to nature-focused school programs over summers or full-time before starting primary school back in Shenzhen or Shanghai. Visitors enjoying the sun referred to the city as “Dalifornia.”
Lo vi en este post y me fui a vivir de cabeza. Y ahora enserio, es un sitio espectacular. De los mejores sitios donde he estado en mi vida. Porque estas ha mucha latitud pero hace sol y buen tiempo. Y en el invierno nieva. Es como vivir en España a 20 grados todo el año pero tener la montaña a 30 minutos para esquiar y el lago para bañarte en verano. Sin los extremos de Andalucia o norte de España.
La costa norte de Croacia, Eslovenia, Bulgaria, también grandes zonas que he estado este verano. Budapest es como Barcelona pero sin moros robando. Zonas muy naturales, buenísima temperatura, tranquilidad y lo mas importante seguridad y prosperidad. Hay mas gente con dinero en Lubjiana que en Madrid. Locales, no extranjeros. Con una población de unas 200k personas, un pequeño pueblo, la gran mayoría de población es "millonaria" en patrimonio.
, buena suerte para mantener una cuenta de AWS entonces
