Chateau L Act Hotel Lijiang

... after you begging to buy their products.<br><br>Next, we went to Black Dragon Pool. The entrance fee was expensive but the tranquility of the park was nice to have after our hectic day in Xi'an the day before. The view of Black Dragon Pool was just like we had seen in a postcard. We strolled around the park stopping to laugh at the funny english signs along the way. We ...

... bus leaves and we find ourselves in the back of a police car ..............this time we are angry .............we are with our travelling buddy Adi ....she's an Israeli , so she does angry well! we get told to wait in a hotel room while they are "sorting things out" - most of the sorting is waiting for someone who can speak english to arrive. things do get sorted and so the story ends.....with the police telling us that there is nothing wrong with us ...

... 18km or so (11 miles). how was the hike? it was tough but gorgeous. first the tough part. as mentioned before, it had been raining. so the trail was wet in many places, muddy in others making the climb both dirty and slippery. we also climbed about 3000 feet the first day. the highest point being close to 10,000 feet in elevation. that doesn't make breathing easy. the trail itself was not always smooth and nicely laid out. there were rocks we had to ...

From D*li we he*ded north to LiJi*ng, one of Chin*s most f*mous old towns. This region is home to the N*xi tribe, who still form the bulk of the inh*bit*nts. On *rriving we stop for * coffee *t *n It*li*n rest*ur*nt, where I promptly f*ll in love with the h*lf-chinese h*lf-it*li*n owner. My god, the combin*tion works! We then spend * goodly *mount of time se*rching the exp*nsive old town for * b*ckp*cker-renowned hostel c*lled M*m* N*xi's. This ...

Kathryn and I were very excited to see Lijiang in the light as even the dark the sillouets of the houses were pretty....sure enough we weren't dissapointed! Lijiang is an enchanting town - just like the china you see in the movies and books...all cobbled streets and courtyard style houses - and overlooked by a snow topped mountain! Lijiang is where the Naxi (pronounced Nachi) minority group live, and the food is gooooooooodddd!! Breakfast where we are staying is a choice ...

... This is a very large and nice park, where a lot of Chinese of all ages go to sit, relax, play games with each other, and drink tea in tea houses - The park is filled with tea houses. Tea houses in China are like caffes in Israel, except that they serve tea instead of coffee and that they do not serve any food, just tea. The tea houses I've been to have about 10 different kinds of tea, each tea based on different flowers. I sat in one of the tea houses in the ...

With the days hike ahead of us I felt no guilt (ok maybe a little, but only a little) in wolfing down as much Baba bread as Mama piled onto my plate much to her delight, that still did not stop me polishing off half of Lihi's either. Lightweight. The mini bus to the gorge went direct from the guest house with 5 of us in it, the others being 2 more Israelis, by far the most common travelers I've met in western China. We arrived at the start of the gorge two hours ...

It takes its name from a stone from which a tiger is said to have leapt across a narrow stretch of the Yangtze River to escape it captors. It is one of the deepest in the world at 16km long and around 3900m from river to mountain top and a fantastic place for a bit of walking. We took a 2 hour ride in a minivan with a group of people we met the night before in Lijiang to a ...

... found that the price of beer was going up 50p at every outlet and our budget could have taken a serious hammering. In fact most places in China seem to be fairly expensive in comparison to its neighbouring countries. We visited the Black Dragon Pool Park, which cost us nearly 12 pounds to get into, which was pretty but nothing much going on. The clothes however are very cheap, so we are eating knickers from now on. Apart from the lake, and taking ...

... gebotst. Alle twee niet goed uitgekeken, zeg maar. De vrouw heeft een klein scheurtje in haar broek die al tot op de draad versleten was, en een klein schaafwondje. Samen met alle passagiers van de bus staat ze verdwaasd en teleurgsteld naar haar knie te kijken. De omstaanders beginnen met haar te discussieren. OK, ze gaan er hier geld uit proberen te slaan. Na mijn onvergefelijke fout op de ...