Dali, China Travel Blogs

To the mountains of Dali
Jan 21, 2005 (4 photos)

... some reason, there is a profusion of hippie apparel, which seems just a little out of place in the middle of southwestern China. The kind of clothes that remind me of eccentric middle-aged great aunts who are elementary school librarians and like to do ...

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 them in  acid. My shoes are tired. The hiking boots are coming apart and ...

Dali festival April 2009
Apr 5, 2009

... people to get their tickets. A further twenty tickets have been marked out for free transportation without the accommodation. The Dali Folk Festival itself will run from April 10 to April 16. Ethnic musicians, dancers and performers from all over the ...

The lost jew of Dali
Apr 9, 2009

An interview with a foreigner living in Dali, Yunnan http://vice.typepad.com/vice_magazine/2009/04/china-the-lost-jew-of-dali.html

Landslide pics from Yunnan
Nov 9, 2008 (4 photos)

... view photo taken on Nov. 6, 2008 shows the Dasongshu Village of Xishelu Township in Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture of southwest China's Yunnan Province is dived into two by the landslide. Chuxiong is one of the worst-hit areas in the rain-triggered ...

Six die in bus crash on Dali road
Oct 26, 2008

Six died and 24 were injured after a bus ran off an expressway and fell down onto a riverside in southwest China's Yunnan Province, local traffic police said on Sunday. The bus with 30 aboard hit guardrails and ran off the expressway in Dali Bai ...

Day 51
Nov 4, 2006 (6 photos)

... relax. That night, I played pool and met a few people including a guy and girl from a deli in Michigan who were in China researching tea! They'd been paid to come here and tour China on expenses while sipping tea and taking it easy - what a great job! ...

50% discount on 5- star hotel in Lijiang
Apr 10, 2009

... and spa suites on its extensive Naxi-styled resort grounds, each with views of towering Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. This is the Banyan Tree Group's flagship resort in China, offering a luxury pool villa experience that's unrivaled in the Yunnan region.

Day 52
Nov 5, 2006 (5 photos)

... else was sleeping. Derek cooked me a bacon sandwich and we had a good chat about his time in China. Steve and I took a bus into the main part of Dali and did some shopping. I didn't have a warm jacket for the mountain trekking we'd been doing lately ...

Shopping and potato heaven!
Sep 27, 2003 (2 photos)

... as friends! We've also explored the city walls surrounding the centre of town which was interesting - great views and atmosphere. China really does keep surprising us - it's nothing like we expected, and is so varied in people and cultures and cuisines ...

Ancient town of Dali
Jun 22, 2006 (30 photos)

... the Bai grouped together and defeated the Tang Imperial army and established the Nazhao Kingdom. The kingdom had great influence over China and somewhat over Southeast Asia. It controlled much of upper Burma in the 9th century. In the later years it was ...

Kung-fu thoughts
Jun 24, 2008 (18 photos)

... meat. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner is rice and vegetables. I'm loving it. After the daily struggle to order anything without meat in China, I eat with no fear and great appetite.   The days at the monastery are all the same, yet not quite. For one ...

Parental Adventures in China, Part I
May 19, 2006 (23 photos)

... hiking in the mountains, and riding in various forms of transportation, Ed and Jean were warming more and more to southwestern China. "It's not as remote as I thought." "The food is excellent." Slowly the barriers were being broken, a few words ...

Impact of visa policy on visitors to Yunnan
Jul 1, 2008

... obvious in cities from Beijing and Shanghai to Dali and Lijiang and elsewhere around the country that international travel to China has dropped off considerably. According to a recent New York Times article, which noted a 14 percent drop in foreign ...

Volunteer English teacher - Yunnan - late July
Jul 9, 2008

... is famous for. Last year several foreigners taught at Hua Ping - and all enjoyed the experience as a highlight of their time in China. You don't have to be a trained teacher to help out - just someone who can speak English! The placement can be shared ...

Chinese Schwarzenegger on the b..b.b.b...b.b.b.bus
May 16, 2005

... want to: Guilin ma? The skies lightened from the urban dust and smog as we approached the small big city of Guilin. Small for China because it's a city under a million people, but that's still big, if you know what I mean. A few minutes later I was ...

Leaving the Gorge
Mar 26, 2006 (5 photos)

... . Our bus driver from a few days before eventually turned up and took us back to Lijiang where we jumped on another bus to Dali. We reached Dali at around 4pm and had a little while to shower and get clean before we headed out for some dinner. We went ...

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 uneventful and took about 5 hours in a minibus. We checked into the No5 Youth ...

Wu Wei Temple and the Five Elements
Mar 12, 2006 (4 photos)

Overlooking the ripening winter wheat and vegetable fields, Erhai Lake, Dali's three pagodas, and the old town, Wu Wei Temple remains a mountain haven for Kung Fu practitioners. The temple is tucked into a pine forest on the slopes of Cang Shan, which ...

Our first week in China
Mar 12, 2004 (3 photos)

... for both of us). Well fed and well rested, we got on the train to Kunming, in the Yunnan province of south-west China. I don't think that I realized what a truly big country China was until we had been on the train for 18 hours, and were still just ...

The third silk route stands up
Feb 3, 2009 (1 photos)

... trade and relations. At long last. Always on the fringe of the great empire, it has maintained relationships with China's neighbours in south-east Asia, particularly in the Mekong basin. And the trade links have extended across Tibet into India. ...

Dali Gu Cheng not Xia Guan
Aug 4, 2007 (11 photos)

... , there was only enough water pressure for the regular shower head and then only at times. Good idea, but not practical in China with well water as your water source. The room had an incredible view of the mountains and a very comfortable bed. The lake ...

The Land of the Bai People
May 19, 2005 (8 photos)

... ,000 feet tall. They form the eastern boundary of Tibet. Here, just north of the Myanmar (formerly Burma) border, west of Han China, and east of Tibet, the Bai ethnic group lives in the valleys and mountains. Their language and culture is unique, yet ...

9 Hours from TLG to Dali
Apr 30, 2006 (7 photos)

... Tibettan with the full range of colours, hat and beard to follow. We are staying at the Number 5 Guesthouse in Dali... a hostel in a tree house. The hostel has all the basic facilities including free internet (good for catching up on this), bar, ...

Hunting plant hunters
Feb 16, 2009

... I have got, that someone in Tengchong can point out the exact location of George Forrests grave, doesnīt necessarily mean much though. In China things like this might be just talk, and even if true, itīs not certain I will be able to obtain this information. ...

Still in Dali
Nov 4, 2005 (4 photos)

All I did today was walk around town so I'll mention a little about the town itself. It is quite a surreal place where middle aged women in full local getup offer you drugs on every street corner. The town has a kind of festival feel to it but it wasn't ...

Blood and Beer (Naughty or Nice?)
Jun 25, 2008

... myself and Mimbo of course. I'm surprised that no one protests me going. They let me sit at the front. As we head down to Dali, I turn around to check on Mimbo and see one of the local guys handing out cigarettes.   "What are you doing?!", I raise ...

Yunnanese Old Towns
Jun 2, 2004

Dali From Kunming, I took a night train to Dali, a small historic town with a beautiful cobbled streeted old town. It was a very relaxed place, where I spent three days, that was easy to wander around and make a couple of trips out of the town to lakes & ...

Blood and Beer Continue (the Naughty or Nice part)
Jun 26, 2008

... his email to check on him later.     After the hospital we all had a dinner. Mimbo decided to stay in Dali - cleaner and closer to the hospital. Now, since we all were in town already, the guys didn't want to go back to the monastery ...

New big show for Dali
Jul 7, 2009

... Zhang Yimou's popular series of open-air shows, Impression, comes rival Chen Kaige's Xi Yi. Impression captures some of China's most scenic scenes - from Lijiang River in Southwest China's Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region to the old town of Lijiang in ...