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Dali Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Dali, China
silence, ca tourne!
Après 26h de transport de toute sorte et la rencontre d'une autrichienne et d’un français me voilà arriver à Dali! Percher à 1900m d’altitude c’est une ville au pied de quelques petites montagnes qui font a peine 4000 m et ...
La ultima estacion
... El paisaje tan variado e impresionante, la gente tan acogedora, el aire tan puro, la vida simple, no parece la misma China ruidosa y contaminada que conocimos al principio. La pena es que sabes que poco a poco se ira perdiendo lo que hace ...
I like to ride my tandem bicycle
... right place but at that point we didn't care. We were tired and hunger but happened to be in the only village in China without a restaurant. After a rest we walked the bike a lot further before finding someone how would repair the tyre for 2RMB, that's ...
Rules of the Road and Moon Cake!
Up early to go visit an ethnic Bai village nearby, departed at half nine, in two minibuses, and learned a little about the Chinese rules of the road........ there are none! Bigger car has more right of way seemingly, and pedestrians are responible for ...
A Taste of Tibet
... is a question as to how much of what you see is a 'real' town with 'real' people walking around. Like much of China, a lot of Dali has been rebuilt/restored in recent years. So, whilst its undeniably beautiful, some of it may only be a few years ...
Where are the tourists ?
... -the-clock siege from domestic tourists, but where we randomly met 2 (boring) Australians and one Swiss. Then after 3-hour bus + 25-hour train ride, we made it to the land of pancakes and Belgian waffles : Dali, the starting point of backpacking China ...
Wind, Flowers, Snow, and Moon
... train stations and having ten and a half more people in the bus than there should be. However, arriving in Dali, which is a backpacker mecca of China, I have been reminded of all the fun I had being smelly and wandering from to every little nook to every ...
Dali - Rain and Ganga Grannies
... 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 rather nice. A nice small town which sort of caters just to tourists. Now, ...
The longest and shortest 27 hours of our lives
... an hour where we could make a toilet stop as there wasn't one on the bus. Compared to where we have travelled so far China is definitely the dirtiest when it comes to public facilities. It seems strange how they are so advanced in some areas yet lack ...
Jul 20, 2012
You Mean All These People are "Bai"?
... by the heights of Cangshan Mountain are exquisitely picturesque. Impossibly, they have even survived earthquakes that badly damaged Dali. We were struck by the gorgeous fruit grown in Dali. The street stalls are overflowing with this unbelievably ...
Dali la ville
... "3 pagodes", dont la plus grande mesure 70 m et a plus de 1000 ans, c'est assez impressionnant. Une autre observation sur Dali : c'est une ville assez "hippifiee" pour les occidentaux, il y a donc pas mal de bars sympas, mais ca sent le shit ...
Dali
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. Chilled out in a bar cool called Mee Bar and drank Jack ...
Yunnan Province
... It was a nice enough mid size modern city. I left the very next day, since I didn't come to China to visit mid size modern cities. Dali Old Town Dali Old Town (not to be confused by Dali City that my bus stopped, I had ...
The Land of Ear Lakes and Dragon Taming Pagodas
... only mine) got better and louder and it was just a great time. Okay I have to leave. Sayonara See you all soon, hopefully. If my flight is canceled for smog I'm writing China (Beijing) off forever. But then I guess I'll what to do with my life. ...
Chillin in Dali
Hey dudes......just been really chilling in Dali for a couple of days......a bit of time out before we hit the sticks tommorow............ Gotvery drunk last night ...ended up on stage playing drums...with a chinese singer ...
Exploring Dali
... my window, and the animals crowing, barking and meowing outside my door. Evidently it was time to get up and start exploring Dali. Having briefly offered some support to an Aussie couple who were trying to sort out some food for some caged up kittens in ...
My stomach is doing triple backflips
... conditions), the tunes range from good to exceptional, their sofas are comfy and their computers are fast. If you're ever in Dali, come here. Also spent a fair bit of time helping my Chinese roomate with her English practise. It's kinda weird, she writes ...
First glimpses of old and new
... work going on everywhere. As the hotel room will not be available until 5pm we must have breakfast in Foreigner St Old Dali. That was a bowl of stir fries noodles with beef which was excellent. After breakfast time for short stroll around Old Dai ...
Travel Diary: Yunnan Province.
... it would be some exotic outpost, sharing more in common with it's south east asian neighbours than the rest of China. But alas, it was just another bland Chinese city with the obligatory skyscrapers, statutes, gardens and cranes and very little ...
Tour du lac Erhai
Nous partons ce matin en voiture avec un guide de notre premier hotel (on n'est pas rancuniers, eux non plus), qui nous emmene faire le tour du lac Er'hai. On commence par aller dans une maison de riches commercants, qui se sont enfuis pendant la ...
Meeting the Jens
Well, now it's meant to get difficult. We've heard a lot of "interesting" things about travelling in China, but so far so good. We managed to arrive safely after 24hrs, 2 flights (Jo was made up), a night in Bangkok airport and an argument with check ...
Rising north, the mercury drops
... for the small metal guard rail beside my bed, I'd have ended up in a pile of extinguised cigarrete ashes on the floor. Arrival into Dali was early pre-dawn and slightly disorienting. There's the old city, and there's the new city. As I peeled open my ...
Quebecois de francais de montagnes supernova
... a adopte la Chine comme son nouveau pays, 7 ans passes ici. Autre fait funny, il y a plein de dealers qui rodent dans Dali. Mais c'est comme exactement l'inverse de l'image que tu peux te faire de n'importe lequel, c'est-a-dire des vieilles madames des ...
Dali, part 2
... besucht, ein Dorf noerdlich von Dali ebenfalls zwischen den ueber 4000m hohen Bergen und dem Erhai Nui (siebtgroesster See von China) gelegen. Sollte noch recht traditionelle Bai Architektur haben, aber solche Haeuser gibt es auch in Dali. Nun ja, es ...
Dali Mountain High
... for its Three Pagodas which can be seen on every postcard in Dali. Due to the outrageous cost of entering some of China's more touristy sites we opted to get some looks of the Pagodas from the outside. This actually paid off because we were ...