Dali Hotel

... and largest is over 1,300 years old and has survived earth quakes, war and revolution, and bush fire. the other two smaller ones each side are only 800 years old. They both stand at a lean following the big earth quake in 18 something.

Back into our small bus for a drive to the Butterfly Park. Polution killed off most of the butterflies so they built a park and enclosure to breed them. It is a pretty park and the ...

We were suprisingly tired after yeasterday considerng that the hourses had done most of the work. We used the day to explore the oldtown, our hotel is just below the south gate and their are walls surrounding the city. It is roughly a twenty minute taxi ride from new town to old town and with the later much more appealing to us.

Dali is set out in grid like fasion, each house is beautifully sculptured, the ...

... It led us to Tranlongbabu Chinese TV and Movie park. No thanks! We took a minibus for 3 yuan (is what we thought we were agreeing to) to the chair lift that we were looking for. It was down the hill and a bit more North than where we had been. If we had walked out of the North end of the Old City, we would have been more likely to find it (although there were no English signs to point the way off the main street). When we arrived 2 minutes later she ...

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... spending time sprinting around it by mountain bike, although given its size, takes all day so is best to start bright and early if you want to jump on a ferry to take the short cut back to the Old Town. The mountainous ridges had patches of snow on them as we soon found the Friends Hostel. Mac recommended we stop here. Being quite cheap I voiced no objections.
We easily sauntered around the town being on a grid system, so a nice place also to saunter ...

... the last stop on the famed Burma Road.  It is very popular with chinese tourists and this is what we have seen most of.  Not too many other westerners as this is their slow season. We hired a small van with driver and guide today and spent the whole day driving around the lake and visiting temples and fishing villages.  All the old ladies love Quinn and he was grabbed again today, this time he ran away though!  We saw her ...

... corn on the cob ice cream=just plain weird! Even their chocolate ice cream was mank, Come back cadburys all is forgiven! Kate's starting a petition to get bulmers, special k, tampax (as tampons dont exist over here!) and real unhealthy tasty good chocolate (its not SUPPOSED to be healthy dagnammit!!) sent over by the respective companies!! Some kid legged it into the middle of the group and started taking photos of us on ...

... BBQs and a selections of meat from lamb, chicken, beef, pork, bacon and vegtables such as courgettes, aubergines, spring onions on sticks ready to be cooked. With our early start to meet the others we popped into a local bar, bad monkeys for a quick drink and a chat with some people from England, Australia and France before hitting the bed. The morning didn't start well with lots of rain and with daniella's bike gear knob breaking, we headed back to town ...

... the police. Tibetans took issue with this, and it all kicked off into the current violence. Not so good for China when the world's spotlight is on them because of the upcoming Olympics! So, nothing at all to do with me, but this kind of thing happening in areas I had so recently passed through, it all seemed quite relevant to me and quite heartbreaking. It was just so much easier to sink into my contented little world of Dragonfly days and forget that I was in China at all.

... rude not to finish your own bowl. This style has several advantages as you can try new things without having to commit and can help youself to all the best things like the best pieces of meat. Also, it can be very fun rotating the glass when ppl are having trouble to adjusting to chopsticks. For me it was a problem as i had no measure of how much i was eating as i wouldn't put all my food into the bowl, so i ended up bloated after every meal. 274275 While eating breakfast ...