Jinhong
Travel Blogs from Jinhong, China
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Next Stop...China!
... the border complete with a soon to be finished shopping mall/trade center. After a few more hours on the bus I made it to Jinhong, a city in the south of the Chinese province of Yunnan.In this city I saw almost no foreigners expect for Lao and Burmese ...
Trekking in Xishuangbanna
The Xishuangbanna region, in China's deep south, actually feels more like South-East Asia than China. In Jinhong the signs are written in both Mandarin and in Dai script, which looks a lot like Thai or Lao; and which is, of course, no less confusing. As ...
First glimpse of the Mekong
For a change we hopped on a deluxe sleeper bus to head down here. The bus was new, the sheets clean and you had to put on plastic bags over your shoes before they would let you get on the the bus even. To top it off the hostess repeated "no smoking or ...
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