Dali Government Resorts - Comments and Reviews

Another uneventful bus ride lead us to Dali. It was just myself and Nadja by this point, Dan deciding to make it down to Xishuangbanna. Dali is a nice little town, the kind of place people go and kind of forget to leave. Dave the owner of the place we stayed said his record was 6 weeks, and i met a couple of people in Beijing who stayed here for...

Ho ceduto miserabilmente. Dopo due settimane senza sigarette, ho ceduto. Ma la serata al "Bad Monkey" (la scimmia cattiva) di Dali e' stata memorabile lo stesso: locale fantastico, musica eccezionale, compagnia straordinaria, tanta (troppa) birra. Non ho potuto resistere. Ma andiamo con ordine: dopo cinque ore di autobus con la solita miriade di...

We left Kunming for Dali which was a shortish bus journey and an American guy called Andres amused us on the bus by introducing us to a whole new world! Hahaha. Dali was absolutely beautiful....full of lovely shops (and Chinese tourists) and in a lovely setting. For the first day we just chilled out and did some shopping and then had a major str...

Hey Hey and a Big G'Day to you all, Woke feeling like death this morning. I had felt my energy levels falling since the night I fell asleep in Yangshuo with the aircon on full. It's ok to do this if you sleep in the other bed, the one that isn't directly under the jet stream. I remember waking feeling like it was the dead of winter and jumping ...

I thought I'd start by introducing Gilad, my Israeli travelling buddy for the next few weeks of the trip. I was fairly surprised to learn that all Israeli teenagers, after finishing school, have to do a mandatory 3 years military service (2 for girls) before they even think about going to university. Introducing this in the UK would of course ca...