Ge Sang Tibetan House Shangri-La

... very cold &amp; when you walk in it is lovely &amp; warm from a wood stove in the centre of the lounge area. It was now 10.30pm &amp; we hadn't had dinner so set off with Sabrina &amp; co to a VERY local chinese restaurant. This was great as I had wanted to do this &amp; eat with locals how they eat.<br><br> <br ...

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... to carry our bags for us. We kept telling him no - but he had hope and continued to follow us for the first 2 hours. Finally, as we reached a steep incline it started raining and Lou figured it wasn't worth it anymore and finally turned around. This part of the path was labeled "28 bends" because it has 28 switchbacks that take you straight up the mountain. This was tough! We got to the top and the scenery was amazing; mountains on ...

... only enrage him and make the driving even more erratic. Zhongdian - Kunming will hopefully be my last bus trip in China, the trains are far safer. It was early to bed early to rise for our bus journey. Before we fought the cold and attempted to sleep, Deniz solemnly confided that 'Luke... This is my first night in China (two months) that I have no beer or ganja'. I'd done it, I'd tamed the party beast. Bye bye cold, bye bye Dmitri, fare well.

... Geographic stories before "Lost Horizon" appeared (1933). He wrote about those places in a voluminous and obscure book that appeared in 1947. Ian Baker and Michael McCrae advance very strange claims to try and link the jungle region of Pemako to Shangri-La, and McCrae even informs us that there is an abyss of contradictions between the two. This is all packaging: Shangri-La is a well-known name, while Pemako is not. If they were presenting all this in a ...

... time sucking on oxygen tanks, which we found funny. We stayed at the Shangri-la Traveller's Club, an International Youth Hostel, where we immediately made some friends and started exploring the small old town. We ate one evening at the Tibetan-Indian restaurant of Celamu's uncle, our Tibetan friend from Lijiang, which was delicious. We also tried some yak-milk yogurt and loved it--yak is one of the most common ingredients in ...

... Wenn man dort zwischen den Wohnhaeusern umher laeuft, denkt man, dass man im Mittelalter ist. Ueberall rennen die Schweine und Huehner herrum, die Moenche hacken Holz oder Kochen ueber einer Feuerstelle etwas. Die alten Tempel von innen waren aeuszerst beeindruckend, da sie sehr farbenfroh, verziert und geschmueckt waren. Auszerdem konnte ich viele Moenche beim Beten und Singen beobachten. Naechster Bericht folgt dann in einigen Tagen aus Chengdu.

Lijiang to Zhongdian (Shangri-La) Got up at 5, had breakfast at six left, at 7:30 for Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. This mountain is the highest mountain in the Snow Mountain Range with an elevation of 5596 meters (18,355 feet). The mountain has three cable car gondola systems that go up to different elevations on the mountain. We went up on the one that let us off at 4506 meters (14,757 feet). At the foot of the mountain we outfitted ourselves with a warm coat for ...

... decided to just take the 30 minute walk along the road to Seans Guest house (Walnut Garden). The route down to the yangtzi was not for the faint hearted as you had to climb down shear cliffs via man made ladders, i absolutly loved it as i really like that sort of trek. We had a few problems at the top as a local family say they own this section of path as they maintain it etc etc so they wanted a total of about 30 yuan of we wanted to continue.. We wernt having any of it so ...

... to sit down with them. He tried to communicate with them a bit - one of the monks knew a litte English, but the topics remained quite simple due to the language difficulties. One thing that had impressed us so far with Zhongdian, was the friendliness of the people, and their curiousity with foriegners. It appeared that although Zhongdian was well on the tourist map, it was not yet quite so changed from all the tourism, and from meeting the curious stares of the people with a ...