My mom came home last night (she went to West M'sia for a few days) and with her came the laptop. And with the laptop came the pictures of the first three days of the trip from my camera (batteries ran out after that but I am trying to get photos from my relatives).

So as promised, here are some of my more favorite pics (mostly landscapey pictures) but more can be found on my Flickr account.

First picture of the trip!

Ok... I have never, before the day I took this photo, seen or heard of a Nissan Fuga.

Me... and in the background - the Stone Forest.

Something about this photo leads me to think that this is a pathway to some idyllic gardens.

I am particularly proud of this photo because I doctored it. Used to be there was this lady leaning against the tree on the far left -- photoshopped her out. I so talented!

Relatives dressed up in the traditional costume of the Kunming region.

At these caves we visited, there were a lot of stairs. As such, there are people there who you can pay to carry you about. That's my aunt.

Everyone I show this picture to doesn't like it. I love it. Why don't people like it?

One of the first few places we visited in Kunming were these caves. They had coloured lights everywhere the place was so vibrantly lit. In this picture, it looks like steps, but they're actually pools of water and they cascade down into one another and over time, form into *that*. Pretty cool.

Gargoyles! (Ya know... I never really did watch the cartoon). This was taken in one of the oldest temples in Kunming. The gargoyle was perched on a bridge (along with a few other gargoyles).

I love this photo because I have never had a more perfectly timed "jump in front of the camera and block everything" jump.

One of the few pictures of me taken with my own camera.

My mom and I posing in Shangri-la, China. We were at a Tibetan Monastery but decided the mountains around were much more scenic.

These two kids are very likely the two most loudest yet most adorably, contagiously hilarious kids I have ever laid my eyes and ears upon. Their squeals of joy and laughter as they played cards were so loud and you just couldn't help but laugh along with them.

This was taken as we were leaving a Tibetan monastery. It's like a scene out of a movie or a picture out of a magazine... I just don't see houses all lined along a hill like that in my normal everyday life.

I am quite possibly in love with this picture. It's so pretty... I'm such a talented photographer (hehe)

Wide open spaces, blue skies - it's the embodiment of the word "picturesque"

This was taken a marketplace in Shangri-la (i.e. tourist money trap but good place to take photos)

I thought it was so cool the way the flower viney thing just falls from the roof all the way down.