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Travel fatugue
Jun 2, 2008
(20 photos)
"So I'm here, but I'm tired. My cloths are tired. Every T-shirt that doesn't have a stain has a whole. The last pair of slacks I bought in London are tearing off as if I'd soaked th ..."
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orizarska
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Dali Adventure (Summer Break)
Aug 5, 2005
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" HeyHeyanda Big G'Day to ya Friday, 5th August 2005 After leaving Kunming around 1am we made it to Xiaguan or New Dali City around five in the morning. Xiaguan is capital of the Da ..."
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eddakath
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Day 51
Nov 4, 2006
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"This morning we had one more look around town before we left Lijiang and Mama Naxis for Dali. It was fun waiting in the guesthouse courtyard for our bus. We had arrived their at 2. ..."
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poolman99
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Chinese Tibet and Chinese China
Jul 30, 2007
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"The rest of the stay in Kathmandu was a good break from travelling with all the Western stuff (food, shops, other travellers, internet etc). But because it was such a tourist city ..."
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martyt
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Impact of visa policy on visitors to Yunnan
Jul 1, 2008
"There's been a big drop off in overseas visitors to Yunnan, as well as a marked decline in domestic tourists. For example, Lijiang is as quiet as it has been for the last four or f ..."
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happysheep
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Ancient town of Dali
Jun 22, 2006
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"The bus from Kunming to Dali was about a 3 hour trip. We would be climbing higher in elevation, up to 2200 meters or 7200 feet. The name of the town gets a bit confusing. There is ..."
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audreyandjack
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9 Hours from TLG to Dali
Apr 30, 2006
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"JULE & LINDY, IF YOU'RE READING THIS... HAPPY BIRTHDAY... WISH I COULD TAKE A FEW DAYS OUT TO JOIN YOU IN CELEBRATING YOUR SPECIAL DAY. I'LL HAVE A DRINK OR TWO FOR YOU! Today was ..."
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shanewilson
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Dali Gu Cheng not Xia Guan
Aug 4, 2007
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"The minibus dropped us off right in the middle of old town. We looked at the place the Israeli girls told me about, but it sucked as well so we decided that their information was u ..."
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rcys
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Small city in the Mountains
May 20, 2006
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"After travelling for a gruelling 28 hours, and changing our plans on the train, we arrived in the small, quaint city of Dali. We changed our plans upon boarding the train in Chengd ..."
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alinmattrtw2005
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To Dali
Nov 2, 2005
"Got up fairly early to get out of Lijiang. It had really disappointed me and I just wanted to escape and Dali seemed like salvation for a couple of days. The bus ride was fairly un ..."
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rbisset
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Dazzling Dali
Jun 30, 2005
(9 photos)
"Dali; an ancient walled city with a lake to the east and mountains to the west. Great food and markets (as per usual in China). We started off in a bad value youthhostel and moved ..."
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mhaebich
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To the mountains of Dali
Jan 21, 2005
(4 photos)
"Two cold, rainy days and one sunny day spent in Dali. Somehow, the coldness and wetness is much less offensive than at home in Liuyang. Probably because there is electricity here a ..."
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luolan
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The Land of the Bai People
May 19, 2005
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"The last four days, I've been exploring around Dali, not just an old town but a whole prefecture of over 2 million people nestled in the foothills of the Hengduan Mountains. It's h ..."
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lraleigh
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Recovery
Sep 27, 2004
(8 photos)
"From Vietnam I passed through Kunming to Dali, where I lay up for three days trying to beat the last of this sickness. Kunming is a trippy place to arrive in from the small hill-to ..."
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barrettbingley
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Our first week in China
Mar 12, 2004
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"Getting into mainland China was as easy as everything else in Hong Kong; we got on a brand new luxury bus, were given our free bottles of mineral water, and left exactly on time. C ..."
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sarah
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Leaving the Gorge
Mar 26, 2006
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"It wasn't too early a start which was quite good as some of us were feeling a bit worse for wear. Today was my birthday and we had a six hour bus journey ahead of us, not the best ..."
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hils
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Shopping and potato heaven!
Sep 27, 2003
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"We're now in Dali, a beautiful town set between towering cloud shrouded mountains and a large lake. It's very touristy but in a fun way. There are many busloads of Chinese tourists ..."
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lizandsteve
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There are hippies, even in China!
Feb 27, 2008
"Dali Old Town - pieni kaupunki, joka on taynna kahviloita, baareja, pilvea myyvia mummoja ja batiikkivarjattyja kankaita. Ja jolla on kaksi upeaa puolta ymparistossaan: Er Hai -jar ..."
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aino.tanhua
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The "Jade Emu" in Dali
May 7, 2008
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"From Kunming to Xiaguan its a leisurely bus ride of 5 hours.In Xiaguan I changed to a local bus, just waiting along the road and shouting the name of 'Dali' is enough, and on ..."
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tom-of-boracay
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Dragon's Backbone Rice Terraces and Dali
Oct 30, 2007
(44 photos)
"The Dragon's Backbone Rice Terraces, northern Guanxhi Province, China We took the bus out of Yangshuo back to Guilin, left our luggage save what we needed for 2 days of hiking at ..."
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wenzels
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In Touch with Nature
Nov 21, 2007
(29 photos)
"Our last province in China, the Yunnan, and we are back in the mountains (hardly anywhere is below 1800m) and feeling the cold winter air along with a fierce sun. The Yunnan is the ..."
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sidom
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Old Dali
Aug 8, 2007
(32 photos)
"We got into Dali last night on the bus from Kunming. As we drove into "New Dali" (the more modern metropolis counterpoint to the "old Dali" tourist town), we saw people everywhere ..."
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sarichka10
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Another mad cap drive into head on traffic
Oct 21, 2006
"I'm now in Dali. This is a small town at an altitude of 1,900 metres with a 4,000 metre mountain range on its western side. Dali used to be the major centre of operations when the ..."
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chris74
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Dali
Nov 13, 2007
(11 photos)
"Cool old town had a laid back feeling. We hired a motorbike and drove around a Lake. Fun! Got some great pictures of real rural China where donkeys are still used instead of cars. ..."
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johnhart
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The old town
May 13, 2008
(12 photos)
"The journey to Dali took a long time and on arrival we were dropped off in the new town and managed to find the bus which took us to the old town for 2 yuan rather then the 40 yuan ..."
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jon-daniella
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Dali
Sep 10, 2005
"Becky and I have been in Dali, China for two and half days now. Dali is a beautiful, old town, surrounded by mountains located in southwest China. We took a 6 hour train ride from ..."
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barnsie2
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Wind, Flowers, Snow, and Moon
Jun 20, 2006
"VIEW DALI PHOTOS Yesterday we arrived in Dali, and there is a strange feeling knowing that this is the last city before I head back to Seoul. My parents will continue on their gran ..."
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altaiojok
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Dali
Jun 7, 2008
(43 photos)
"Dali - after a 10 hours horrible night train Ivonne and I arrive in Dali. The first think we notice is the blue, blue, blue sky like we know it in Europe. Wow I haven't seen that f ..."
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sabineontour
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Arrivee a Dali
Aug 20, 2007
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"Presqu'une grasse matinee et nous partons a pieds pour le jardin botanique tropical de Jinghong, qui est aussi un parc tres agreable. D'autant plus agreable que la chaleur est par ..."
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southernfry
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Missed out on the KungFu...
Nov 12, 2007
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"We found this really tacky guest house, really tacky. IRGH. Apparently, this was the place for KungFu. When did we find out? In Kunming. Damn. Well, if you're ever going there, fin ..."
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lisa.wengel
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Hotel Dalifornia
Feb 29, 2008
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"25.2 - 1.3.08 Dali. Kiina "Dali : Backpackerparatiisi josta hippikin loytaa itselleen yrttivaihtoehdon.." -Madventures- Dalissa sananmukaisesti oli surrealistinen meininki: L ..."
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ilari
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Dali
Apr 8, 2006
(10 photos)
"With Glenn getting so excited about his new found love for Skype, we almost ran out of time to make our train from Kunming to Dali. Luckily enough we managed to make it to the trai ..."
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glenn_christie
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God bless China
Sep 29, 2006
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"De oorspronkelijke mail werd nadien gecensureerd.. De foto's spreken voor zich.. ..."
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remberido
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Dali and its great lake!
Oct 29, 2007
"We managed to get off our bus to Dali from Lijiang at the right place - phew! We then had to hike most of the way across town in the heat (not as hot as Darmin will be) to ou ..."
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liv.ltd
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The Pensioner Drug Dealers
Aug 6, 2005
"Dali looks like it's trying to be Lijiang's little tourist honey pot of a baby brother. However, for now it hasn't got there and for that reason it has all the haphazard chaos that ..."
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robjstaples
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Dali
Sep 12, 2006
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"Seventh stop: Dali ..."
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natter_17
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Dali
Sep 20, 2007
(8 photos)
"20/9 Dali After a day of travelling on a bus from Lijang, we finally arrive at Dali. Dali lies in the shadow of a mountain on one side and a lake on the other, it has a very laid-b ..."
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helenpretious
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Dali - Rain and Ganga Grannies
Jul 10, 2005
"Rain, rain, rain. That's all it ever did whilst I was in Dali so I did not get to see the mountains and the large lake. Dali situated between the two and from the photos looks rath ..."
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jc
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Dali
Apr 17, 2008
(1 photo)
"In the end I decided to hang out in Lijiang for a couple more days. This was mainly spent settling up my laptop (talk about how to spoil a cultural experience of seeing a new ..."
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simonmain1
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Dali and beyond
Apr 12, 2008
"Hello all from Dali... From Xian we flew to Kunming - a very charming city of 3.5 million - relaxed and blue skies !!!!! even Moon and stars at night - a nice change from the previ ..."
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sergemichael
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Dali
May 18, 2006
(19 photos)
"Visit to the ancient town of Dali and some other places in the district ..."
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valach
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A Week In Wa Se Village
Feb 12, 2008
(10 photos)
"Hello!!! Sorry i haven't made a blog sooner, i've been really busy with a hectic schedule of waking up early and going 2 sleep late! This blog is deicated to the week i have s ..."
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tsjones3
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Chinese logistics
Feb 8, 2007
"All was running smoothly in Kunming - we hopped in a taxi headed for the bus station, found the correct bus, thankfully the sign was in English and set off for Dali. We met some re ..."
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richandvic
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Week Four off to Kunming and Dali
Nov 8, 2007
(75 photos)
" 10-31-07........It is getting to the point that I am not sure what date it is or where I am. I am writing this a few days later. I believe on the 31st we took a ..."
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bob8888
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Dali
Aug 22, 2007
"We left Kunming for Dali which was a shortish bus journey and an American guy called Andres amused us on the bus by introducing us to a whole new world! Hahaha. Dali was absolutely ..."
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n_bradley
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Travel to Dali
Oct 3, 2005
"woha i've done so much its almost difficult to remember, I will begin by describing to you what the streets of Kumming are like. As you stroll down the pavement at night there are ..."
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jonnytheroth
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China's #1 Tourist trap
Mar 21, 2007
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"A short four hour bus ride north of Kunming is the tourist town of Dali. Dali was an old town that has been rebuilt exactly as it used to be except now all the old buildings are fi ..."
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polomuiriu
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Dali, Traveller's Mecca
Jan 30, 2008
(36 photos)
"Ni Hau, ich bin von Lijiang nach Dali gefahren, man faehrt ueber einen kleinen Pass und ist nicht mehr bei den Naxi sondern bei den Bai, einer anderen Minoritaet. Die Bai waren et ..."
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schwate
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Dali
Feb 14, 2008
(13 photos)
"Hello, Dali is stunning! Lovely blue sky and snowcapped mountains, it is very popular with chinese tourists but for good reason, the backdrop of the mountains on one side and the l ..."
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rhonamcd
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Suprising Dali
Mar 13, 2007
(20 photos)
"I hadn't heard of the city of Dali prior to this trip, but after doing some research and talking to other travelers, I decided to make a visit. Dali is in southwest China in ..."
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bcc8
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A Taste of Tibet
Mar 18, 2006
(18 photos)
"Even though Dali seemed relatively flat, near a very large lake, at the foot of a mountain range, we were already high up in the mountains that eventually turn into Tibet. We were ..."
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andylou
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Surrealist reconstruction
Oct 21, 2007
(16 photos)
"After Zhongdian, Dali was going to struggle to live up to expectation and, frankly, it did. It's not a bad place by any means and a few more days would have been welcome to e ..."
A travel blog entry from Dali by
warm
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It's a small, small world
Nov 14, 2005
(5 photos)
"By the time I checked in to the youth hostel in Dali I was pretty hungry but wasn't allowed to order any food until they'd cleared away the breakfast stuff. While I waited and read ..."
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ladyadey
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You Mean All These People are "Bai"?
Oct 30, 2005
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"A quick flight from Xi'an through Kunming brought us to Dali in Yunnan Province. We must say the service on our private tour was quite good. A guide met us at the Kunming airport t ..."
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paulandmel
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Dali
Jan 14, 2006
(2 photos)
"We jumped on a bus to Dali which was a mere three hours drive away and arrived in the small walled town about 9, checking straight into Jim's Tibetan Guesthouse which we had found ..."
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jeznkez
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Rest and relaxation in Dali
Oct 8, 2006
(26 photos)
"Our 26hr journey to Dali was interrupted by a brief stop-over in Kunming. It was raining hard when we arrived - the first proper rainfall we're experienced since arriving in China ..."
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tallbird_lankey
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Well preserved old town, party town that is.
Oct 3, 2007
(21 photos)
"One night I was having a beer in a bar called Bad Monkey with some friends of mine when someone politely knocked on my shoulder. I didn't notice I was blocking the narrow alley and ..."
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andremaheux
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Tigres et Dragons
May 24, 2005
"Le depart de Chengdu marque une nouvelle etape. Linge propre, cartes memoires formatees, lecteur MP3 reinitialise. Pour feter ca, je me suis meme coupe les cheveux a la chinoise po ..."
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asalvaire
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Cafe culture, Chinese style
May 10, 2008
(6 photos)
"Our tour of Yunnan province continued with a three hour bus-trip south from Lijiang to the hippified ancient town of Dali. Surprisingly, this journey passed without major inci ..."
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emex
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Beautiful Dali
Mar 6, 2008
(5 photos)
"Well, unfortunately the meal at the King World gave Cherry a bad case of food poisoning, and she was very unwell the following morning. As she was unable to do much more than ..."
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ttlhmcclelland
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RUDE!
Sep 26, 2006
(14 photos)
"At 1900m, Dali is also a cooler place at night and I'm enjoying the weather. The Old City itself is pretty unremarkable. Dali is apparently quite the destination for Chinese touris ..."
A travel blog entry from Dali by
sabarod
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Dali Mountain High
Apr 18, 2008
(5 photos)
"The guide books suggest either Dali or Lijiang (most people choose Lijiang) when you visit northwest Yunnan. Since we had the time we decided that we would check them bo ..."
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scottflinders
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Driving to Dali
Oct 12, 2007
(7 photos)
"Dali, also in the Yunnan province, is just a three to three and a half hour drive from Lijiang. Gary drove us there with a stop half way for a toilet break at a shop that serves fr ..."
A travel blog entry from Dali by
jmabro
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La scimmia cattiva
Jul 23, 2008
(12 photos)
"Ho ceduto miserabilmente. Dopo due settimane senza sigarette, ho ceduto. Ma la serata al "Bad Monkey" (la scimmia cattiva) di Dali e' stata memorabile lo stesso: locale fantastico, ..."
A travel blog entry from Dali by
planetvale
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Dali, hat die Kulturrevolution ueberstanden
May 3, 2006
(10 photos)
"Dali (wohl gemerkt Alt-Dali) ist eine der wenigen Staedte in China, die die Kulturrevolution halbwegs unbeschadet ueberstanden hat. Teile der mittelalterlichen Altstadt, der Stadtt ..."
A travel blog entry from Dali by
petra_karlaut
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Dali, China
May 29, 2006
(8 photos)
"I haven't fleshed out the details of the last few days, as there is nothing very interesting to report - we left Sa Pa on Friday, took a bus to the border town of Lao Cai, went thr ..."
A travel blog entry from Dali by
melp
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Dali - Nice Place to Kick Back and Relax ...
Apr 9, 2005
(14 photos)
"Travelled to Dali in a mini van with a guy I meet in Kunming. He was good at bargining so we paid 50 yuen instead of 63. We had read that the bus trip would take 8 hours but becaus ..."
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aaron
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Dali, China
Apr 13, 2008
"So it's been a while since I last did one of these. I am currently in Sydney, Australia, which is bloody expensive after you have been travelling Asia for 2 months! Is anyone still ..."
A travel blog entry from Dali by
mattislost
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Lots of rain and Tibetan Tea in Dali
Sep 9, 2004
(5 photos)
"We arrived in new Dali via a 6 hour train ride that was for the most part unremarkable and then a remarkably scary taxi ride for the 20 minutes it takes to get to Dali Old Town fro ..."
A travel blog entry from Dali by
mattandmardia
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Life on the Truck
Jul 30, 2007
"Life on the truck A standard day on the truck consists of waking an hour and a half before we are due to leave. Often we have either 6am or 7 am departures (YES....UGH) so t ..."
A travel blog entry from Dali by
jo_and_kenny
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'No' means 'yes'?
Jan 23, 2007
(12 photos)
"After two months of struggling to find a bit of character in Chinese cities, I'm beginning to realise that it's the smaller places I need to be concentrating on if I want to see an ..."
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mrconfused
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