元阳梯田行走青年旅舍

这里简直是享受宁静的避风港。这次旅行让我觉得回到了过去，真是一段愉快的经历啊！ 能有机会住在这样一个环境特别的酒店里，我认为有时费力地跟工作人员沟通是值得的。他们也非常努力地去理解我的意思。一旦他们明白了，就会竭力帮你。他们会帮你找公交车的班次，帮你订下一个酒店，在你去元阳旅行的时候，他们会帮你寄存行李。 建水是个好地方，很有气氛，值得一去。 早餐不是特别好，但没人在意这个。附近有很多面馆呢。

纯古典的，朱家花园是一个老宅子，属于文物了，拿出来搞一个公园，人在里面入住要胆子大点的也要有人陪，就像电视里边拍的，门都是木头的，吱呀吱呀的那种，都是县政府里边的人接待的，很安静很优雅，像拍电影那种。房间隔间效果不太好，隔壁的声音能听得到，卫生方面都还可以，里边有点陈旧的味道。

我在弥勒县(Mile)教书,我乘坐了4个小时的巴士去建水呆上两天。朱家花园也是一个旅游景点,但是那里晚上甚至还要更迷人些。多么美丽的地方,还有那房间。。噢,看看那些照片吧!它比这个区域里别的酒店要贵多了,但是我想和西方的酒店相比还不是贵得那么离谱。云南一般都消费很便宜-有时候只要4英镑就可以吃一顿三道菜的饭! 建水古城显得更象个中国汉代景点,不幸的是正逐渐地变得俗气,但是目前还是没问题的,保留了很多自己的文化和古建筑。只是不要跟随舞者去朱家花园饭店。。那里会宰客而且并不诚实经营。就在朱家花园对面有一家给游客提供英文菜单并且提供真的很美味的当地美食的餐馆,叫作鲜满楼(或者诸如此类的名字)。除此以外,真的要试试街边小吃,不要去那种看上去好象要使你中毒的饭店! 酒店在早餐上确实下了工夫去迎合西方人的口味,但是你可以看的出他们还不习惯!云南的主要农作物是烟草和稻子,所以除了这种奇怪的加糖的奶油糕点的东西以后,他们并不常吃面包(或者主要的小麦产品)。他们早餐,午餐,晚餐都要吃辣的食物! 这里的员工能说一点英文。现在那里的西方游客看上去全是法国人,所以也许他们懂的法语比英语多,我不知道!

The Zhu Family Garden hotel is a Qing dynasty mansion, one of the few that wasn't subdivided during the Cultural Revolution. There are 42 courtyards and many rooms, not to mention countless beautifully restored wood carvings. The room was decorated with traditional furniture including mosquito nets artfully draped over the beds (unfortunately necessary). An absolutely lovely place to spend a few nights.

I was teaching in Mile, I took a 4-hour bus to Jianshui to stay for 2 days. Zhu Gardens is also a tourist attraction, but it is even more magical to stay in for the night. What a gorgeous place, and the rooms..well, take a look at the photos! It is considerably more expensive than other hotels in the area but still not overly expensive I suppose in comparison to Western hotels. Yunnan is generally very cheap - It was sometimes only about £4 for a 3-course meal! Jianshui is become more of a Han Chinese tourist attraction, and unfortunately is becoming increasingly tacky, but at the moment it's still alright and preserved a lot of its culture and old buildings. Just don't go to the Zhu Gardens restaurant with the dancers..it's a rip off and not an authentic experience. There's a restaurant aimed at tourists with an English menu but serves really tasty local dishes just opposite the Gardens called Xianmanlou (or something like that). Otherwise it's really about trying the street food, and avoiding restaurants that look like they might give you poisoning! The hotel do make an effort to accommodate Westerners for breakfast, but you can see they're not used to it! Yunnan's main crops are tobacco and rice, so they don't eat much bread (or wheat products basically) apart from this weird sweetened brioche stuff. They eat spicy for breakfast, lunch, and dinner! The staff speak little English. The Western tourists there at the moment seem to all be French so maybe they know more French than English, je ne sais pas!