Dali Hotel
277 Fuxing Road, The Ancient City Dali, Yunnan, China
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Dali, a cut above the rest
... and rustic and animals roam freely about the streets. We stop here at a secret Bai monastery, the home to a dozen diminutive Bai nuns, dressed in their indigo wraps and headgrear. The nuns are great - faces etched by hard work and frugality, huge smiles, giggly, and spiritual. They offer to perform a song for us in the temple, but can't find the starting key and end up in fits of laughter as they try to get the song underway.
We stop for lunch in a fishing village on ...
Convalescing in Dali
... smiled after a 'Ni how' (hello) others just stared some more. The produce of these fields is on sale in the town, the veg spread out nicely the live fish in bowls next to the bowl of live crayfish and the net under which there are frogs (people must like their food fresh!) We ate in a local cafe by pointing to the food that the last table were eating, which was amazing, one of the best meals we have eaten! Next of to ...
Dali: Appropriately Surreal (Was it all a dream?)
... the throes of a Han revolution. But the town remains still nice to look at (more so with the tourist dollars coming in), with Bai style buildings, weeping willows and cobblestone roads. But it is true you can easily do the wander around tow and get the visual flavor of the place in half a day. Or in the first five minutes when you get off the bus, as I did. And that first impression was great. Feeling ragged, I arrived at the West gate of old Dali at sunrise, ...
Lakes and Mountains
... the good bits and spit back onto either the table or more likely the floor, the bits they don't want to swallow, bones etc. And that really just takes the pleasure out of eating! Us whities politely tried one piece each then stopped, seeing as it took a good 10 minutes to eat one small piece of fish, and left the 2 Chinese to finish off the rest, oops.
We also took advantage of a gondola ride up into the mountains and ...
I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore
... had given our dorm beds away to someone else and wanted to put us in a bigger dorm room with no ensuite bathroom. Now I know that this happens all the time in Asia but so far we have managed to avoid this happening to us, so I was thoroughly peeved when they told us our new dorm room wasn’t going to be as nice as the one we had originally booked. So, like the proper British people we are, we told the manager we weren’t happy and asked for some kind of ...


