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Zhongdian Slideshow
Zhongdian
Travel Blogs from Zhongdian, China
This could get interesting...
Ok so I got up early in Lijang to find that I was once again poorly. I was not going to let this change my plans. I got showered an headed to the bus station. I wanted to get to Qiao Tou (the beginning of Tiger Leaping Gorge). The bus ride was beautiful ...
Tibetian Homes and School
Today, after driving to a national park, which reminded us of the western US, we stopped at a Tibetan school. Our guide had never been to a school on a tour before, but was eager to find one for us to visit. We parked at the entrance and walked on ...
Tiger Leaping Gorge
So I left Panba Hostel on a bus with four Israeli's and a French guy called Cyril. Cyril talked about girls the entire 30 hours we were together 'hey cummon, I'm French!' he excused himself. He was a great walking partner. We dropped our extra kit off at ...
Ghost Town
They are completely rebuilding the old town - so I guess it should be called the new old town. While we were there it was eerily empty - like a (you guessed it) ghost town. There were two highlights - the old man that owns the oldest house in town, who ...
Zhongdian
The past couple days here have been really rewarding as we discovered the wonderful Tibetan people. Our tourguide, from Tibet as well, has given us insight about the Tibetan way of life and the influence the Chinese government is and has made on their ...
Zhongdian
... of complaints we eventually ate our 'breakfast' and ran away quickly, never to return! Morning also bought the realisation that Zhongdian really isnt Paradise -its nice, but not what I expected!. Also, Helen realised that her boyfriend, who had gone ...
Two Delightful Days in Shangri-la - "Paradise"
... that because of the tight security issues for travelers to Tibet we had to actually visit in person the China Eastern Airlines office in down town Zhongdian. This seemed to take forever and after several hours and a long walk back we were ...
Zhongdian
... took the 8:30am bus to Zhongdian (Öеé). We saw more and more signs in Tibetan as we got closer, and finally arrived in Zhongdian at around 12:30pm, and walked to Tibet Hotel. The walk was not as smooth as we thought since there were construction in ...
Les Gorges du Saut du Tigre
Randonnée bien impressionante et fatigante ! Arrêt pour la nuit dans une auberge sur le sentier, Tea Horse Ghesthouse. Le coin était bien agréable, tout de bois. Départ le lendemain dans la matinée pour 3h de marche. Après une bonne heure, le ...
MeiLi Glacier and Zhongdian (Shangri La)
... I apologize for the lack of words but I hope that my pictures will suffice in their place. I can actually say I've been to Shangri La, unfortunately it's not what you might expect. There are much more beautiful places in Yunnan province than ...
Par dela les nuages
La vie est faite de rencontres... Nous venons de passer 2 jours a Sangri La, a 3300m d'altitude aux frontieres du Tibet. Effectivement la route entre les gog\rges et SangriLa etait epoustoufflante, passant des cols, traversant d'arides vallées dans ...
shangri la
en route vers shangri la petit village pas très loin de la frontière tibétaine. Sympa même s'il y a pas mal de touristes. On a loué un 4x4 pour 3 jours pour monter vers le mont ...
Tiger leaping gorge
not finished, notes: took van from lijiang. went with 2 dutch guys, 2 isreali girls, and 1 spaniard. Great time hiking with all of them. 3 days in the hike two nights. sky ladder down to the bottom. refused to pay the guys ...
Tiger leaping gourge
Tiger leaping gourge Zhongdian or sangrila... So arriving in Zhongdian marks the return to the more heavily traveled tourist trail. The town is alot bigger than those of the last few days. There is a new part on one side and when you enter the old ...
The road to Shangrila
Joel's third chance to become an orphan. Finally we leave Litang and board a real bus. After some chaos we get a seat each. The bus is dangerously overloaded but we have real seats for the 12 hour trip. We are very comfortable, I am ...
Lijiang - Zhongdian
... Gorge (Hutiao Xia) It is on the Jinsha River of the upper reaches of the Yangtze) is located 105 kilometers south of Zhongdian County. The gorge is 17 kilometers long with a drop of 213 meters. The gorge is divided into three sections: Upper, ...
Holy Crap! I'm In Freakin' TIBET!
... around the dying coals we all slouched off to our great big fluffy Yunnan duvets and passed out. Tibetan Buddhist Monastery, Zhongdian On our 2nd day in Zhongdian Mary gave Angela her first acupuncture treatment (it's funny, I've never met ...
In search of Shangri- La
... to tough out the expected cold. We then drove up to the Park which is listed a as one of the first national parks for China. We were raced through to the main entrance to queue for entry and this is where we had our first real taste of Chinese people on ...
Long Ride on a Shortbus
... renamed after Jame Hilton's fictional paradise by the Chinese government to increase tourism to the area. The town was called Zhongdian (Chinese) or Gyalthan (Tibetan) previously. The town is on the Tibetan Plateau and was part of Tibet until ...
En Route
... seemed to be more well paved going out than it had going in and the journey took about 7.5 hours, arriving just outside Zhongdian by about 5:30. Despite an agonizing traffic jam at the one-lane construction zone reentering Zhongdian, we still made it ...
Zhongdien
The last Tibetian stronghold on the way down south with a bit more touristy flaver into ...
From Tibet.........kind of
Hello from Zhongdian, Sorry I haven't written in a while. I've been working on this project. This travel blog is what my buddies Mike and Vinny use to keep in touch with their friends and family. After seeing it, I began transfering all of my emails ...
Les plus grandes gorges de chine
ben ca vaut le de tour , dans le debut de la chaine hymalienne , des montagnes enneigées de plus de 5200 m d altitude ... avec une riviere , enfin plutot un gros torrent , qui passe entre les montagnes ... un debit de ouf , ca donne pas envie de tombé ...
Tiger Leaping Gorge to Tibet!!!
... than a month ago I was bitching about how hot it was and that I am now huddled up in my new fake North Face attire (God Bless China and their fake stuff). So I did the Tiger Leaping Gorge with two Canadians and a Swedish girl that I met at Mama Naxi's ...
Stranded on the Mountaintop
... bend, was too much for Rog, he thought he was gonna die. The whole trip from Daocheng to Zhongdian took 14 hours, an incredibly windy road with sheer drops of 1000's of metres and if you could ignore the dread of going over ...
