Golden Spring Dali

... found it after setting up in the wrong one! We are in a 4 berth just like the soft sleeper we had in CVietnam but a little smaller. Pillow & blanket provided. Met a few other people in the carriage that could speak English & were keen to talk to us. One was a student from Lijiang wanting to practice his English & another a chinese ...

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... my guesthouse's bed, courtyard and the fantastic Cafe de Jack, I've been gathering strength with a cocktail of vitamins, large meals and lots of water. I'd like to take this opportunity to strongly recommend Cafe de Jack. The food is great, the coffee better, the staff are full of jokes, the toilets have doors (thank christ, given todays intestinal conditions), the tunes ...

... with extra cups and saucers. This is for instant coffee, in a country where I could feed a village lunch of rice, meat and two veges for 70 people for that same $30US. Or for 50c I could buy a packet of 150g green tea. OK, back to Starbucks and it's rant: "Our intention is to work with the officials and the farmers in Yunnan province to bring Chinese coffee not to China, but to the world," Martin Coles, president of Starbucks Coffee International, told The Associated ...

... puncture of the day just 1 km from our meeting point at Dali's Three Pagodas park. Lay did another quick repair job and we had some group photos in front of the Three Pagodas Park before heading into Dali in single file. It was all high fives as we completed our 400kms cycling around Yunnan. After lunch at the MCA Hostel I decided to walk back to the three Pagodas and it was ...

... the police's suggestion that they bring him some hot food. Policemen quickly procured a bowl of soup noodles from a nearby restaurant and placed it in front of one of the Carrefour entrances. The day's drama ended when Lu opened the door and a police sniper fired one shot, which entered Lu's left temple, killing him instantly. The nurse who had been taken hostage escaped unharmed. http://www.gokunming.com/en/blog/item/7 49/sniper_bullet_ends_carrefour_hostage _standoff

... heros - see http://www.cctv.com/english/20080928/10 6899.shtml if you want to see the story in its full gushing glory and check out all the "Thank the motherland and the people" style rhetoric. It did strike us over here as a bit bizarre though the angle that the international coverage on this event has taken. The BBC website's report on the mission refers to it as "China's riskiest mission yet" - as Sam pointed out, if this ...

... jade from the fake stuff, what's not so clear is picking out low or medium quality jade from high quality jade. The difference between something costing $100 and $10,000 seems surprisingly insignificant (at least to us), so I think we'll stick to the low quality real jade thank you. We then returned to the hotel for a bit of down time before having some supper. We finished the evening off by exploring the streets around our hotel.

... Festival there. Long story short - we were escorted around the fair, which consisted of several floats, potted plant vendors, and flower deplay competition, by a local TV personnel. We were interviewd for the nightly news there in Chinese and in English to the delight of the locals and for our patience with the cameras all day long, were treated to a famous local roast duck banquet that afternoon. At the banquet, the ...