Dali Guest Houses - Comments and Reviews

Dali used to be the typical backpacker hang-out in Yunnan. The old city is pretty with paved streets and ancient buildings but it has all been turned into touristy shops, selling the same stuff..
First thing in the morning I got a bike and went North on the road along Erhai lake to see the great landscape and minority villages.

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Our hotel's travel agent only sold bus and plane tickets, not trains. Out of laziness, we booked a sleeper bus to Dali instead of a train. Jen insisted that the sleeper buses are OK. I'd never been on one but was skeptical. Kunming's bus and train stations are close together, so we went to the train station first to buy the train to Guilin for t...

This morning we had breakfast in Kunming at the same place we had dinner last night. There was lots of bready stuff so it was good. After breakfast we drove on the tour bus to the Stone Forest which took about an hour and a half. There were lots of people there. We walked through the pathways for a while and it was pretty cool. Huge pieces of st...

THE CHINESE WAY After two solid weeks traveling in the land of a billion people, I have discovered some fascinating things about the Chinese. First off, they are absolutely, amazingly hospitable and friendly. Despite a language barrier rivaling the Great Wall, these people (for the most part) love to chat and laugh and smile. Its commonplace for...

We jumped on a bus to Dali which was a mere three hours drive away and arrived in the small walled town about 9, checking straight into Jim's Tibetan Guesthouse which we had found in the LP. The enigmatic Jim greeted us the moment we stepped through the door into his cosy and busy restaurant/communal area. He is a tall well built Tibetan guy wit...