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Bye-Bye Yunnan - dallying in Dali
After the excitement and activity of trekking in Yunnan we moved to Dali – 185KM south of Lijiang and also an historic town.
We drafted this blog in a car on the notional 4.5 hour trip from Lijiang to Dali. The story continues:
We are 3.5 hours into our drive to Dali: Golden Week traffic is horrendous and we have spent 45 …
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Parental Adventures in China, Part I
... the way. A five hour bus ride later and we were in Dali, land of the Bai people, fake coins, cormorant fishing, the Cangshan Mountain, good food, and Chongsheng Monastery. We stayed next to Chongsheng Monastery at the Santa Yuan Hotel--San Ta, as in ...
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Journey to the West - X
... traveller from Guandong province who joined us in our adventures. Our goal for the day was Cangshan mountain. http://www.chinahighlights.com/dali/attraction/the-scenery-of-cangshan-mountain.htm We avoided paying the 30RMB entrance fee be quitly ...
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The longest and shortest 27 hours of our lives
... our travels and unable to find the school we cut our stay to just three nights. Apart from the shops, Dali is situated at the bottom of Cangshan Mountain and overlooks Erhai Lake which is one of the largest in China. We visited the three Pagodas and ...
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You Mean All These People are "Bai"?
... well-known for its natural splendour and the scenery was hauntingly beautiful. We spent some time hiking in Cangshan Mountain, the famous source of Dali marble. The day we spent there was cloudy but still magnificent. We also saw three trained monkeys ...
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The Cangshan Challenge
... off the overnight train from Kunming at 6am ready for action, so I dropped off my stuff at a hostel and took off for the Cangshan Mountain trail. Take the chair lift up? I don't think so. The steeply inclined hike to the foot of Cangshan took about 90 ...
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The Culture Week... and a bit
... of Chinese that involved dice and me always losing and having to drink!!! February 15th Today we were going to visit Cangshan mountain. We had breakfast in this dirty restaurant, opposite our hotel where we had been having breakfast lunch and ...
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Little town of only 400,000 people Nanzhao Kingdom
... of Chongsheng Temple, which are the symbol of the ancient culture of Dali. The Ancient Town of Dali, nestled in the arms of the enormous Cangshan Mountain, and surrounded by a wall eight meters high and 3.5 kilometers in circumference, the 600-year-old ...
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Cangshan Mountain and Erhai Lake
... night. Once I got back to the old town, I had some rice noodles and then found out at the hostel how to get to Cangshan Mountain. Apparently it was walking distance, but I don't think they understood what I wanted, and soon I got lost! So, I ...
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Walking the Jade Cloud Path
... Dali on route to Weishan and our next market appointment and spent Sunday walking along the Jade Cloud Path half way up the CangShan Mountain high above Dali. I would like to say that we walked up BUT in fact we took the Cable Car – we are in ...
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Dangers of going solo hiking
... people are searching for Ren Shengjie, 25, who has not been seen since last Tuesday, when he went hiking solo on Cangshan Mountain in Dali Prefecture. The area is more than 3,000 meters above sea level. Based on his last text message received by ...
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