Golden Spring Dali

... Zhonghe Temple, we made our way back down a horse trail and finished around 5.30pm. But there is more to hike; the mountain peak, Yu Ju Peak, is at an elevation of 4089m, a challenge which I would like to take on with a hiking buddy, which I have yet to find.<br><br>Today, we went to Cai Cun village about 5 km from Dali. We walked through the village talking randomly to people, sitting by the lake and having a ...

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... on somedeck chairs perched on a jetty overlooking the lake. It was more like the sea actually , it was so vast. There we supped on a beer and watched the sun go down. During this time, for some reason a rather large russian man decided to befriend us and spill out his pearls of wisdom on travelling. The place was full of young chinese tourists, and we all sat together and had a family style meal, which included every part of a pig imagineable. Liver, intestines, skin, face ...

... money. On Friday we left our hostel, bus tickets in hand and got to the bus station. Once inside we were accosted by no less than 6 children begging for money, and they wouldnt let you move, they matched you step for step. We then had to sit in the bus station with them standing over us as we waited more or less demanding money. Our bus was a sight for sour eyes, it was a sleeper bus so on one side it had double bunks and single bunks on the opposite side. Me and Kristy got given ...

... brownish rolling hills as the landscape became bathed in sunshine, a welcome relief from the cloudy skies also affecting Kunming. After a toilet stop, a gasoline refill, we landed slowly through Dali's new town, otherwise known as Xiaguan. The thing I find attractive about Dali is the mountainous backdrop called Cangshan impressively looming at one side, while the enormous Erhai Lake spreads out towards the other. It's nice spending time ...

... municipal public security bureau. An investigation is under way. A resident living near the bar claimed to have seen the victim, a young man, being carried out of the bar by rescuers. "His legs were bleeding and seemingly broken," said the woman, who declined to give her name. The woman said the blast shook her house. "I came out to check what was going on and saw a foreign young man rush out of the bar. He leaned against a tree and his ...

... its first flights in January of next year, according to Kunming media reports. Kunming Airlines CEO Wang Qingmin (&#29579;&#28165;&#27665;) told reporters that Kunming Airlines is receiving investment from Shenzhen Airlines and will also draw support from the airline's management and IT systems. Kunming is building what is expected to be China's fourth-largest airport which is expected to drive the city's emergence as the main ...

... off to ask for some help in a random hotel. The lady, bless her, gave us a map and showed us where to go!! (I LOVE CHINESE PEOPLE!) So it turns out, we were about 30 minutes in the wrong direction of where we wanted to be going!! GREAT! So with our heavy backpacks still on, we walk in the right direction and finally find our hostel tucked away in a peacful little alleyway, an hour and a half after being dropped off by the taxi!! That night we walked back to the main area of ...

Wake up with slight rain, and still no hot water in the room. First visit: Black Dragon Pool, a park placed inside Old Town, containing a small lake and some beautiful views. The first thing we do there is to seal our love by carving our names in a lock that has no key. This lock has been blessed by a dongba (a kind of pope of the local religion). A short walk under the rain, a shorter visit of the Dongba museum, and we leave Lijiang by ...

... of the pedestrianised Zhengyi Street in the centre of town, working their painful magic on customers or waiting for the next ones. Around the corner, a group of middle-aged women exercise in public by line-dancing. Five minutes further outside the centre, the road is decked with open-air stalls on either side, selling a huge variety of meats. Locals eat and chat on rickety chairs and tables. Small chickens and ducks are available, heads, feet and all, alongside dog meat butchered into ...