201104 George and Mary's Festival Trip to Ganlanba and Botanical Garden

April 16 was Dai people's New Year Day of Ganlanba area, there would be a crowded festival fair and people would have dragon boat race in the Mekong river, for this occasion George and Mary from Switzerland booked one day tour with us, they liked to take pictures of both nature and people, for their interest, besides Dai people's festival occasion, we also included visit to tropical botanical garden in the itinerary.

Apr. 16, 2011
　
We visited a Dai village in the countryside 　 Waiting by the river for the start of boat race, very hot!
　 　 　
　
Pupil monks were watching the boat race 　 Dai people's traditional dragon boat race
　 　 　
　
Dai girls were all nicely dressed up for festival 　 Different from festival venue, botanical garden's very quiet
　 　 　
　
Nice red-flower banana in the botanical garden 　 Nice pink-flower banana in the botanical garden
　 　 　
　
Nice ginger flower in the botanical garden 　 George kept taking pictures of various plants
　 　 　
　
Relaxing walk in rainforest zone of botanical garden 　 Big tree in rainforest, vegetation was so lush

RELATED TOUR.....to be customized.