Yisa, a small laid-back town with legend 迤 萨，一座传奇般的休闲小镇
Slopes after slopes and bends after bends. A very clean and laid-back place. That is my first-day overall impression on this legedary town. It’s hard to believe there could emerge abruptly a populous community living happily in the middle of nowhere, drowned and nearly secluded in the depth of big mountains.
It goes without saying the locals are very wise, brave and industrious. Just look at their beautiful houses and you will know what I am talking. Tiers and tiers of buildings are built on the slopes like a terraced field. The other day I saw some people were filling a deep hole with large stones to make a foundation for a house. It was a really hard work.
Small as it is, Yisa is very convinient in shopping and vacationing. All the daily necessities can be bought here, and the slopestreets can offfer a good exercise if you walk a lot . Without much traffic and hussle, it is really quiet with a dominating position to enjoy the cloud-floating vallies.
Yisa is famous for its horse cavaran in the history. Some hundred years ago, many people made a living by doing small business in other parts of Yunnan, even further abroad. Horses carried the most cargo and stamped out a trail winding through jungles and around mountains. When their owners returned with the hard-earned savings, houses were built. Generation by generation, Yisa becomes what it is today from a scratch in the wildness. As a local place of historical interest, Yisa brags about its many elegant east-west-style "castles" built by the returned oversees .Today’s Yisa gives off more enchanting glamour, with more and more explorers to come. And I am one of them , enjoying strolling on the cobble-stone lanes, enjoying the cool mountain breeze……
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You have really had a good knowlege of Yisa though you have been here for only a few months.
Comment by jj — November 13, 2006 @ 5:19 am