Hotel deals in Zhongdian, China

We have struggled so hard to get to Shangrila, traveled through such beautiful country and met the Tibetan culture not too trammeled by outside influences. There are no snow capped mountains but streets dedicated to hordes of tourists. "Hordes of ...

From Zhongdian, Yunnan Province, China by heathermatthews

... her shout "Mama, mama, telephone mama you" what I said in slight distress was my mum on the phone in a random place in China? "Mama no know which busstation mama english bad" oh I said, still pretty confused and bemused. She took one of my bags and ...

From Jilang, China by jonnytheroth

... years ago. So The Nature Conservancy worked with the Yunnan provincial government and the Diqing county governor to create China’s first national park — Potatso (Pudacuo) National Park, a Rocky-Mountain-National-Park-sized swath of land ...

From Zhongdian, Yunnan, China by happysheep

Tiger Leaping Gorge, we set of early in the morning and arrived in the town of Qiaotao which is very small and a place nobody would stop unless attempting the Tiger Leaping Gorge. We headed to Jane's cafe, had breakfast and left our bags in her ...

From Qiaotao, China by jon-daniella

Seans guesthouse was a little overrated. It may have the only flush toilet on the gorge but it wasn't the cleanest, neither were the showers. But it did its job and we got a good nights rest before our next hike to Daju. We had misplaced the map ...

From Daju, China by escapefromuk

... some R&R after our hard hike yesterday. In trying to keep it easy, we visited the largest Buddhist monastery in Southwest China (essentially, everywhere in China except Tibet). It was pretty mind-shattering. The most surprising element of the ...

From Shangri-La (Zhongdian), China by madmetro