This is another famous tourist city. I only had a half day to see it all, so I got moving. I took a bus to the Li River. Then I walked across the bridge to Seven Stars Park. My first stop inside was the Seven Stars Cave. They rushed me through the entrance so I could catch up with a tour already in progress. The cave is filled with colored lights placed in order to make the rocks look like animals or other imaginary things. It actually looked pretty impressive inside the cave. Then I climbed one of the seven peaks in the park for a view of the area. Then climbed down and saw a temple, and small zoo, Camel Hill, and another cave.
Then I walked all the way back to my hostel, stopping at a few places on the way. I had an overnight train to Kunming to catch. My new computer battery really paid off now, with battery times around 5 hours compared to 1.5 hours with the old one. The 18 hour 20 minute ride had some very scenic sights. First it was the mountains like I saw in the last two cities. Then in the morning there were “stone forests” everywhere.