Golden Banna Hotel Xishuangban Jinghong

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... 10 and she was happy.<br>We headed back to the city, but on the way our guilds said it was lunch time and stopped at a LOCAL eatery. We took one look and thought,,, oh boy this will be fun. No menu, we had to pick from what was in a glass cabinet, in full sun. Fish, pork, mushrooms and lots of locally picked vegies. When the food came out it tasted great. They couldn't tell us what one dish was... it is something like a deer, runs around high in ...

... for the email, glad you FINALLY got round to emailing me. Glad you;re ok. All is well here, food is generally beyond *****, as you can see. Lizi ordered 'Delicious Chicken' last night which consisted of 2 feet (with claws) and some ribcage. Great!! xx<br><br>Pa - thanks for the warning about the PLAGUE!!!!!!!!! How mental. Luckily we are nowhere near, but I have been warning other travellers. Let me know if you get some chickens and I will help with names. xx<br><br>Ma ...

... off limits form now on.<br><br>We started on our return journey, only to be met with a massive tropical downpour. We were drenched in about 2.5 minutes, so we hid under a big tree until it subsided. We had thoughts of being stuck in the rain forest and being attacked by a leopard and wondered what we would do to fight him off. Luckily, it didn&#8217;t happen. We saw lots of other creatures, including a very hairy caterpillar and a snake, but nothing large to note ...

After Meung Sing I took a bus back to Luang Nam Tha and then took a bus from there direct to Jinghong, China. It was about 50,000 kip and I chose this bus as I didn't want to handle the border crossing myself with my baggage - basically being left at one point and having to walk or take a tuktuk to the point of entry. This was defnitely a great idea. The driver and assistant helped me along. The police/custom officers did ...

... and great new friends and the gardens were BRILLIANT! There was a koi fish pond where you could buy some feed for them. As we were throwing the feed the fishes literally were jumping over each other to get the food. The little mouths were opening and closing like if you fell in the pool not a bit of you would survive! It was hilarious. After the fishes we enjoyed a leisurely walk around the park. All around us there we ...

... vast crowds of megaphone toting, matching-cap wearing, flag-following Chinese tour parties and so the wild elephants very wisely keep well clear of the accessible area of the park so the closest we got to major wildlife was the zoo type exhibits at the entrance of the park. Yesterday we got a group of us together (in fact besides me they were all Israelis - this area seems very popular with young Israelis many of whom take a ...

... hills, admiring the evergreen view and stopping for snacks, photos of butterflies, and to practice the kung fu form we learned at Wu Wei Si on top of an observation tower. Arriving in Bulangshan, we were greeted by sleepy police officers manning a godforsaken checkpoint, who examined our passports, checked our bags and pointed us in the right direction. While checking our bags, the policeman found the three remaining lemons Gilli ...

... en oel paa den lille hyggelige cafe. Vi laeste dagen forinden at der var et soendagsmarked i en by lidt laengere ude paa landet, hvor der vil vaere Akha, H'mong og mange flere minoritets stammer repraesenteret, saa vi stod tidligt op og kl. 8 sad vi i bussen. Vi havde forstillet os en tur paa 30 min., men foerst kl. 10 kunne vi prale af at have vaeret i Menghun. Hvis det er noget man har lyst til. Markedet var smaat, markedet var naer doedt, markedet var efter 2 ...

... from a presumed starting point around today&#8217;s Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam. I suspect they will soon be outnumbered by immigrant Hans, if that hasn&#8217;t happened already, since this city of at least a quarter million is not even on many maps, and even an out-dated Lonely Planet described it as "so small that&#8230;" I thought I&#8217;d taken the wrong bus or gotten off at the wrong stop. Apparently ...