1. So I’ve decided to just forget this map and just let the city show me what it wants me to see. WhenI travel, I generally do it like that because I really love walking and I find just by walking around it's a really nice organic way of sightseeing and coming across things that you just can't find on a map.
2. I have the weirdest craving rightnow for pineapple rice. Xishuangbanna is home to the Dai ethnic minority and this pineapple rice is one of their most famous and traditional dishes. It's very heavy. It feels very dense. I'm so excited to try this. It's a very stickyconsistency. Obviously it tastes like pineapple. It’s really delicious, really really good.
3. So one thing I really wanted to do before leaving Xishuangbanna was to go for a walk along the Mekong River. This is the same river that flows through Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam. So it's really the lifeblood of Southeast Asia.
所以我决定忘掉这张地图,让这个城市向我展示它想让我看到的东西。当我旅行时,我一般都是这样做,因为我真的很喜欢走路,我发现仅仅走路就是一种非常好的有机的观光方式,可以遇到你在地图上找不到的东西。
我现在对菠萝饭有一种超级奇怪的渴望。西双版纳是傣族的故乡,这种菠萝饭是他们最著名的传统菜肴之一。它非常重。感觉非常稠密。我很想试试这个。有一种非常粘稠的稠度。很明显,它的味道像菠萝。它真的很好吃,真的非常好。
在离开西双版纳之前,我非常想做的一件事是沿着湄公河(澜沧江)散步。这是一条流经缅甸、泰国、柬埔寨、老挝和越南的河流。所以它的确是东南亚的命脉。