June 25- Kunming

An outdoor excursion today as we visit the stone forest outside of Kunming. The Stone Forest is an other-worldly panorama of stone steles created a couple of million years ago by the forces of nature. I could try to describe it in writing but I simply won’t be able to do the Stone Forest justice. I’ll just have to post a few pictures. We hiked for about 2 hours and saw absolutely spectacular landscapes. In the evening, we visited “The Hump” the final time and paid our respects to the Flying Tigers. We heard an account of an elderly Chinese woman who saw the Tiger’s go into action against the Japanese for the first time. Apparently, there was a great deal of fear that the Japanese were going to invade Kunming and commit the same atrocities that were seen and Nanking. The woman recounted her stories of dogfights over Kunming, downed Zero’s, and throngs of cheering Chinese with tears in her eyes….