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Butterfly Spring Hotel Dali

Zhou Cheng Village, Xi Zhou Town Dali, Yunnan, China

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First Destination, Dali

A travel blog entry by sapasapa

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... break for 5 min after 2 hours. Before journey start a guy was smoking in the bus with windows close and got scolded by health officer good job! The way to Dali we passing through tunnel after tunnel and villages,hey the is a Dinosaur Village, dinosaur painting are on every wall, wonder was there any dinosaur found? In the bus we met a lady who is the boss of hotel in Dali and Lijiang and her companion at ...

Dali

A travel blog entry by jkloppenburg

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... hoogte en de nabijgelegen bergketen reikt tot 4000 meter. De wolken stromen letterlijk over de bergen wat de gisterenochtend een mooi verschijnsel was. Ik had van Jan, die ik ontmoette in Pingyao, de tip gekregen om naar een klein dorpje nabij Dali te gaan genaamd Xizhou. Die ochtend huurde ik een MTB die vele malen beter zat dan het krakkemikkige fietsje dat ik in Kunming huurde. Xizhou ligt 18 kilometer van het historische centrum van Dali vandaan op de ...

Dali: Appropriately Surreal (Was it all a dream?)

A travel blog entry by mchao

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... doubtful I'd make it through the day and do anything worthwhile in Dali.

But as that bus rattled down the road and the concrete maze of new town (Xiaguan) fell away to fields, I could feel myself mentally picking up, even though physically I was running on fumes. Dali is located west of Kunming next to Erhai Lake, the sixth largest lake in China and sitting nearly a mile about sea level. The area is noted for being extremely beautiful, surrounded ...

Dali

A travel blog entry by erikruisch

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... schrift hadden, gebruikten ze de Chinese karakters. Hun naam betekent 'wit' en ze noemen zichzelf 'sprekers van de witte taal'. Vijfhonderd jaar vormde hun hoofdstad Dali het machtscentrum van het koninkrijk Nan Chao, dat tot halverwege de 13de eeuw onafhankelijk bleef van de Chinese dynastieën. De geschiedenis van deze periode is goed gedocumenteerd, waar de Bais hun status als officieel erkende etnische groep aan te danken hebben. De Bais leven langs de oevers van het Er Hai-meer, ...

Two weeks in the Chinese highlands

A travel blog entry by ashventures

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... some 7 km away and I am thrilled at the opportunity to sleep in a bed again. Their open-air cooking/dining area hosts a dozen or so trays of silkworms, which they are farming. The grandmother is strong as an ox, bringing huge loads of the leaves the silkworms devour with surprising rapidity. I help out with some small jobs. In the end I'm too preoccupied with getting my five(!) phone batteries charged whilst I have access to a power source to sleep too well.

The ...

This hotel was formerly known as: Butterfly Spring