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Amazing Shangri-La
8/12 Road from Lijiang to Shangri-La was mostly winding and uneven. Also I caught cold during the previous night, so the ride toward Shangri-La became very miserable. My ears were aching badly from running nose as altitude increased. I felt half deafened when we arrived. We all took a long nap after checked into the inn.
8/13 Songzanlin …
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam...
... bunten Fähnchen im Wind und schon wird irgendwo ein neues Steinmännchen aufgetürmt. Die Ursprünge des tibetanischen Buddhismus müssen hier liegen...
Dennnoch beginnt ein nicht zu unterdrückender aufkeimender Zweifel an uns zu nagen: sind wir da etwa einem hausgemachten Schwindel aus dem Lande des Fake aufgesessen?
Eigentlich haben wir vor hier ein paar Tage mit Wanderungen zu verbringen - es gibt ...
Shangri La - Not really!
... to Facebook. Facebook is not allowed in China! At each scenic spot Sonam would leave us to our own devices and take his own photos and then immediately place them on Wei Bo. Still we can't complain, he would make himself available when we asked but since his English really wasn't that great it was only Bruce and Rebecca that really got anything of value out of him.
On the way we stop off at Tiger Leaping Gorge which consists of a narrow passage through which ...
Visa extension time
... had proved that this would be the place from James Hilton’s ‘The Lost Horizon’ (this book is available everywhere in the town). Like Dali and Lijiang, it has an old town, though somewhat smaller than the other two. It’s still pleasant to walk around, it just doesn’t take long.
We stayed in Shangri-la to extend our visa, as this is the best place in the area to do it. The Public Security Bureau deal with ...
Tibentan Autumn
... and very rough. The driver would often try to answer his phone whilst overtaking on a blind corner above an unprotected precipice, surely saying "oh hold on… hold on… yep, yep…hold on… I’m just going to light a cigarette with my other hand"
You can’t **** with the Himalayas in Autumn though. Crimson shrubs scatter the fields as yak graze between them and ...
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