Kaiyuan and Qinghe (Part 2)
After our spiritual awakening (The tour was all done in Mandarin so it was more like a spiritual sedative) we walked back down the steep red stairs (bit scary on the way down) and had lunch at the restaurant at the bottom of the hill. 
I don't think the owner had ever had westerners in his restaurant before because he insisted that he have a photo taken with us. The staff set up chairs outside the restaurant and we all sat down for a very bizarre photo shoot. I guess we might get our pictures up on the wall or something later. We'll have to go back and check!
We negotiated with a Taxi driver to take us back to Kaiyuan to catch the bus back home and he took us on a short tour of the park (free of charge!) 
He even stopped so we could buy some grapes - the area around Kaiyuan is apparently well known for it's vineyards.
The lady who was selling fruit (she may have been a bandit as she wore a mask the whole time) let us go and pick our own bunches of grapes. 
The grapes were delicious!
I don't think the owner had ever had westerners in his restaurant before because he insisted that he have a photo taken with us. The staff set up chairs outside the restaurant and we all sat down for a very bizarre photo shoot. I guess we might get our pictures up on the wall or something later. We'll have to go back and check!
We negotiated with a Taxi driver to take us back to Kaiyuan to catch the bus back home and he took us on a short tour of the park (free of charge!) 
He even stopped so we could buy some grapes - the area around Kaiyuan is apparently well known for it's vineyards.
The lady who was selling fruit (she may have been a bandit as she wore a mask the whole time) let us go and pick our own bunches of grapes. 
The grapes were delicious!
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