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Dali Slideshow
Dali
Travel Blogs from Dali, China
Spring Festival 2011
... on the street inches away from innocent feet. Oh maybe should have told her that the beautiful aroma of urine is actually China's national smell. Probably wouldn't have hurt if I told her the Chinese find sleeping on rocks comfortable, and that staring at ...
RUDE!
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 tourists and the Old City looks like it was designed by Walt Disney himself to ...
The "Jade Emu" in Dali
... girlfriend! A wonderful place to relax a few days in Dali, the rooms are excellent value (I guess the best I have had in China so far!), the service excellent and the dumplings just so yummy!! Dave also has some excellent bikes to go out to the ...
Ancient Town, 3 Pagodas and 500 Ahrats
... Dali reminds us of the Windermere Valley in the summertime, even including the smell of some pine trees. The trouble with blogging from China is the lack of (readable) material on the internet to enhance my memory of what we saw. And I must confess, the ...
I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore
... and planning done for the rest of our time in China. Originally we planned to split our time in the south of China between three destinations, however curiosity has finally got the best of us and despite both feeling rubbish we have decided to squeeze in ...
Convalescing in Dali
... me for this as he did say a few times that he was dying - and felt to crappy to be doing much strenuous hiking. But Dali was a lovely place to stay instead. Our second day there we took a chair lift up the mountain, which was really cool! Once there it ...
Hard Train Sleeper to Dali
Nath feeling better today but a bit weak & tired. Beautiful sunny day & we headed out at 10am down one of the local streets - Shulin Street to look at shops. Nath bought some Dragon Ball Z stuff & was happy about that. ...
Dali
... stoned out his head. I really never thought that kind of thing would go on in Dali but checking wikipedia apparently Dali is the Amsterdam of China...not sure how that gels with the communism thing. I saw the fella again in a bar called the ...
Visite des communautés Bai à Dali
... le lendemain aller skier à Bromont. Bromont c'est pas si mal mais on se dit que hier Tremblant c'était vraiment mieux. Mais bon, Dali avait quand même ses attraits, un temple énorme avec 3 grandes pagodes (on n'en avait pas vraiment encore observé de ...
Dragonfly days
... , and I was fully ready to slip back into inactivity when I reached the Dragonfly. My landing in Dali seemed to coincide perfectly with my China burnout. Although I had a good couple of weeks travelling with Sim before I arrived, I had been ...
Surrealist reconstruction
... to explore the surrounding countryside. It's just that it really is a "Backpacker Mecca" - probably the nearest that China has, with Banana pancakes pushing the more traditional fayre down the menus of the numerous tourist-friendly cafes. ...
Dali - cosy town with ooodles of character
... the villages here most buildings had paintings on their white walls. One village had many dinosaur paintings and the next had different mushrooms. Dali is a great place to just eat and drink all day and evening long. Most places sell beers, wines, juices, ...
A Nice little town...
Dali is a little like Lijiang in that some streets are closed off to cars and are lined with touristy shops. Dali however is easier to navigate as it's streets are set out in a grid pattern rather than Lijiang's winding cobbled lanes. The main difference ...
The Culture Week... and a bit
... us. We had been told their would be a translator but because'they were behind schedule' i could pick out the words dali and china every 30 seconds. The Camelia Annual Exposition is held around the world and its members are from all over the ...
Do you wanna smoka the ganje?!
What a day! Or more, what a night, but i'll start from the top all the same! Arrived mad late for class, waiting for Magali and Kate, we realised that no one had actually seen them this morning so I knocked on the door to find a sleppy-eyed Kate, who ...
Biking, Jumping Spitting my way West!
... . Fantastic, rivalling Candy Rock. -Spending nights above the town at our favorite roof-top terrace bar sampling BaiJyo (SP?) China's very strong rice alcohol. In moderation, or death! In all, Yangshou was full of activity, travelers to exchange ...
La scimmia cattiva
... un sacco di gente, stranieri e cinesi, una band fantastica (i "Tribal Moons") e un'atmosfera incredibile. Dopo qualche birra "Dali" (che da queste parti rappresenta una buona alternativa alla onnipresente "Tsingtao") giro l'occhio e chi ti vedo? Patrick, ...
A Week In Wa Se Village
... because it was such a beautiful city and we had been there such a short time, however, i was excited to experience rural China where fireworks are legal for New Year's. (In the city they actually sell tape recordings of fireworks???) The journey was ...
Chillin in Dali town
... just booked another flight to avoid a 24-hour bus or train journey later in the week to Chengdu. Arriving in Dali was a welcome change. My China trip so far has been one week of big city (Shanghai and Hangzhou), one week of countryside (Yangshuo), ...
Third Lunar Festival in Dali
... and was a pretty rustic affair. We ate with the family (by we, I mean a Czech guy on his 7th visit to China, and I). I headed off for XXX (4097m) the next morning. The return trip should have taken 9 hours, i did it in a ...
Life on the Truck
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 that means a 4.30 or 5.30 wake up alarm. We get the tent sorted and have ...
China's #1 Tourist trap
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 filled with souvenir and gift shops. The places is teeming with Chinese ...
Exploring Southwest China
... hols. but the good thing is that there are more festivities and more decorations on the streets. also observed that china is quite enlightened in certain aspects of recycling and environmentalism. in all the cities that i've visited in ...
Tour of Er Hai Lake
... " stops, and that as we were going to the famous tie-dying village of Zhou Cheng the following day with our Travel China Guide tour, we wanted to go out around the lake and spend some time in the countryside. He was quite charming and ...
Dali
... freedom. The crux of his answer was that he felt 10 times freer here than anywhere in the West, as at least in China the government was honest about their level of information control and output of propaganda. Whereas in Britain or America the control is ...
4 Days Of Livin' D Land
... , but putting some water over it would remove most of it. :-( It was pretty awesome to be working like so most of china (the peasants) do every day. We could see fiields being painstakingly ploughed by oxes and women carrying huge piles of sticks on thier ...
Well preserved old town, party town that is.
... contact ever since. We had never even talked about going to China. So we obviously had no clue that we were both in China at the same time, let alone in Dali,Yunnan and in the same not so good bar. And I had to stand in his way for us to meet again. ...