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Himalaya
Day 80: Lugu Lake
In the unfinished shell of Namu's Museum. I talk to the biggest influence on her life. Her mother.
We're whisked away to a nearby promontory, rising a few hundred feet above the lake. Here, looking like a half-built millionaire's home in California, is Namu's latest contribution to the Lugu Lake property boom, her own half-built museum.She talks vaguely in terms of some sort of Mosuo cultural centre, but as we step carefully over pipes and piles of dust and rubble I get the distinct impression that this is a museum of Namu.
She waves towards a substantial three-sided space.
'I'm going to put the translations of all my books from all over the world here.'
'That's huge, Namu. That makes the British Library look like a newspaper shop.'
But she has already moved on.
'And this is my kitchen.'
She enthuses about work spaces and artists in residence, and 'rooms for my best friends'. On a terrace outside we look down on the concrete shell of a swimming pool.
'That's the most beautiful view on the lake,' she says, and it certainly is a glorious position, out there with the mountains beyond and small, wooded islets rising out of shimmering, silver-blue waters.
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- Series: Himalaya
- Chapter: Day 80: Lugu Lake
- Country/sea: China
- Place: Lugu Lake
- Book page no: 188
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