Mengla, China Travel Blogs

Vinny's Vision

A travel blog entry by foolsgold

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Ni hao folks. Its been a while but once again I had a vision. Mike has started his China reflections so I shan't tread on his furry toes. I just have a few bullet point observations and travel trips aimed at no-one in particular. -- Driving. Driving ...

China...... A Retrospective (Part One)

A travel blog entry by foolsgold

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... .... Our Route: Beijing, Hohot, Yinchuan, Xi'an, Chengdu, Kangding, Litang, Xiangcheng, Zhongdian, Qiaotou, Dali, Kunming, Jinghong, Mengla, Mohan, Laos. Beijing can be a daunting place to start your travels, as it is huge, polluted, and full ...

China...... A Retrospective (Part Two)

A travel blog entry by foolsgold

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... than England, and the government keep their oppression pretty low profile. I think it's safe to say that we would recommend China as a travel destination, will certainly return, and if I could make one point about it then it's this: Travelling in ...

China Finaly

A travel blog entry by orizarska

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... , and I'm sweating all over. I should have taken the tuk-tuk when I had the chance. So I finally, finally I enter China at 3:30pm, on Sunday afternoon. Bad timing, by the way, for all the banks are closed and the ATM does not like ...

Mouldy Mengla

A travel blog entry by mhaebich

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... sign was in chinese characters...bit different from s/e asia where even in small places there are occaisional english signs. Got to Mengla after a couple of hours and had to bargin again for our ride...this place was huge!!! At least twice the size ...

Stuck in China

A travel blog entry by martyt

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... guy who had the key to the desk had gone home for the weekend so we had to wait until Monday to hit the road again. Mengla was just a typical Chinese town. So that we had to stay here was ace. Meeting locals wanting to talk to you not because you have ...

Mengla

A travel blog entry by steve.brine

... looked outside to see a shed and nothing else. I went back to sleep thinking 'I dont even care if this is Mengla or not, I'm not getting off a bus in China at 2.30 in the morning with nothing but a shed to keep me sane.' At 4.30am the bus arrived at ...

Mengla

A travel blog entry by glenn_christie

... an hour or so, we were on a mini-bus to Mengla. The drive took about 4-5 hours and we arrived at the bus terminal in Mengla around lunch time (about 6 hours late). There were touts galore waiting for us at the bus station, so we decided to find a place to ...

Wiadomosc z telefonu kom�rkowego ORANGE [511176

A travel blog entry by asiaexpediszyn

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Mengla

A travel blog entry by rikkitikkitaavi

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A bus trip to China's border town of Mengla was a necessary step before crossing into Laos. We were greeted through the windows of the bus by a group of tourist vultures with claims of the best exchange rate for Lao Kip and the cheapest rooms in the area. ...

Less than 24hours in China

A travel blog entry by schwate

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... einem Sleeper in den naechsten umsteigen, hat mein Vertrauen nicht gerade gesteigert, aber um 7:00 bin ich tatsaechlich in Mengla angekommen, dort vom Nord- zum Suedbushof gefahren und in den ersten 8:00 Minibus nach Mohan zur Grenze eingestiegen. Wie ...

Off to Laos (finally)

A travel blog entry by aaron

I (finally) picked up my Laos visa in the morning and organised a sleeper bus to Mengla. I had orginally planned to stop in Jinghong, before Mengla (the last town before the border crossing), on my way to Laos. However, after meeting a number of ...

Mengla -- this was our real final chinese stop

A travel blog entry by raquel_chiel

... on. We stopped quite often to go to the toilet, but it was really not nice at all, the toilet i found. Once we arrived to Mengla, we went out with the icelandic boys looking for dinner, and we found a really cool place, and chiel went to order food. ...

Bring back the spittoon!

A travel blog entry by thehog

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... Last but not least into the taxi was the chain-smoking Chinese with a comb over. A swift 90 minutes later and I was in Mengla. Quickly finding a hotel I was eager to dump the bags and have a shower. A small problem emerged, I didnt know any mandarin; ...

Mengyuan-Mengla

A travel blog entry by virgdav

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... plupart ecrases. Mais il nous est arrive plusieurs fois d'en voir des vivants s'enfuir vers le bas-cote a notre approche. Arrivee a Mengla, derniere grosse ville avant la frontiere. Beaucoup de panneaux sont traduit en lao. Dans 60 km, adieu la ...

Vuelta a China!!! Noche en el parque!

A travel blog entry by koaclarck

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... night. Once I have my bag back, I throw a quick look in the Lonely Planet whether they say something about mengla and hopefully about a Bank of China. Surprise, there is one! Around the only streets I didn't check. So, I go there but of course, it's ...

Entering China / Ankunft in China

A travel blog entry by petra_karlaut

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... in Vientiane erfolgt am 28.4.06 ca. 16.00 Uhr, Grenzuebertritt in Boten um ca 13 Uhr am naechsten Tag, Ankunft in Mengla nach 25 Stunden Busfahrt um ca. 17 uhr (statt angekuendigt um 12 Uhr mittags). Ein Geldwechlser am Busbahnhof ist unsere erste ...

Km 15`570, Bye bye China!

A travel blog entry by andiontour

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... die Takla Makan Wueste, 30 Grad Hitze im Spaetsommer, die Uyguren, die mich mehr an die Tuerkei erinnerten als an China,und die endlose Wuestenstrassen. Spaeter das tibetische Hochland, Schnee, Eiseskaelte und zelten bei minus 15 Grad. Aber auch tolle ...

Mengla

A travel blog entry by mies

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What will $3 get you in a China border town?

A travel blog entry by dannyandsarah

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... was hard but it worked for a room that was fully half the price of any other room we found in China. There were two highlights of our stay in Mengla: 1) a cheap and delicious noodle restaurant where the owners would stretch the dough and boil your noodles ...

Menglan Meanies

A travel blog entry by koppers

The drive to Mengla took 5 � hours. And we hadn't left until nearly 1:30, so we didn't have much time to find a hotel before it got dark. We hiked the length of the city until we located the southern bus station, where we hoped to get an early start ...

Had to sped a night in Mengla

A travel blog entry by beornot2be

... station during rush hour and got stuck for over and hour in a traffic jam, of course i didn't make it in time and had to spend a night in a small shit town Mengla and deal with the officials the day after about my one day overstay in China. (more ...

Mekong: Friends again

A travel blog entry by dannyandsarah

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This was the riding we were waiting for; beautiful winding roads along the Mekong River. No pannier was found but the views of the crystal clear(ish) river, super easy roads, and pineapple stands made up for it. There was so much to look ...

Mengla Market Place N Walk

A travel blog entry by eddakath

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... to my feet. In the end Judy gave in and had hers polished and glued to perfection. The day was spent walking around Mengla's outta areas. We began with the 200 and something stairs that took us to the inner mountain top. Here there were many new ...

Last day in China!

A travel blog entry by kai.berlick

... sure you can get a lot of that in China, but it constituted a microscopic amount of what we saw. Arriving in China via the Karakoram (Friendship) Highway and Tibet, I expected to see Peoples Liberation Army everywhere, oppressing the people and generally ...

Happy Thanksgiving!

A travel blog entry by tipperoonie

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... if the bus was indeed going to take 2 nights to arrive in Laos. Our only option was to head on the overnight bus to Mengla and attempt to cross the border in Boten and spend a night in Luang Namtha. Plan agreed, we purchased new tickets with our refund ...

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Vinny's Vision

China...... A Retrospective (Part One)

China...... A Retrospective (Part Two)

China Finaly

Mouldy Mengla

Stuck in China

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Wiadomosc z telefonu kom�rkowego ORANGE [511176

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Less than 24hours in China

Off to Laos (finally)

Mengla -- this was our real final chinese stop

Bring back the spittoon!

Mengyuan-Mengla

Vuelta a China!!! Noche en el parque!

Entering China / Ankunft in China

Km 15`570, Bye bye China!

Mengla

What will $3 get you in a China border town?

Menglan Meanies

Had to sped a night in Mengla

Mekong: Friends again

Mengla Market Place N Walk

Last day in China!

Happy Thanksgiving!

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