Good Chance Hotel Xishuangbanna Jinghong

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... hundreds of very noisy chinese tourists stomping through the jungle there was no hope of every seeing anything wild in this jungle. We heard some monkeys, but that was about it. So we caught the cable seats back again. Michael just made the statement again "there are a lot of Chinese over here" but he also said we have met a bad one yet. <br>Everyone has been so friendly, hospitable, generous and kind. <br><br>When we got back to the ...

... village called ManXiu, populated by about 500 Jinuo people.<br><br>We were taken to a house, led up the stairs and told to sit on a kind of balcony area which contained an enclosed shower with a massive dog **** in the middle. We were offered a shower, which after inspection, we kindly declined. Bathing with faeces is clearly not frowned upon here.<br><br>The home consisted of one big main room with a fire for cooking and had 2 smaller rooms off it. The older parents lived in ...

Got our flight from Chengdu to Jinghong in Xishuangbanna, last night with virtually no difficulties at all, with the exception of being stuck next to a very boring English person on the plane who thought he was going to adopt us as friends. Wrong.<br><br>We were greeted at Jinghong airport by a host of aggressive and unwilling taxi drivers. One of which threw us out of his taxi when we demanded he put on the meter. This set us up for a good start. We then elected a ...

... a receipt, he gave it to us for free... Back in Qiongzhong we gave the form to the local government office and we took a bus to Haikou. We got stuck in Haikou again and this not how I planned it, because that day was he 31st of December. So we spent New Year's Eve in a hotel room in Haikou and I didn't even see fireworks. The next day we took the bus to Sanya, where the weather for the first time since leaving Guangzhou was quite good. We were ...

... the day (there were only 2 per day) to Mengshou. After a few abortive attempts to take get other drivers to take us there which failed as any taxi type drivers were asking prohibitive prices, citing the bumpiness of the road as the reason and all truck drivers etc claimed not to be going there (in retrospect having seen the size and remote location of Mengshou, this was somewhat unsurprising) we spent some time wandering around ...

... d'eau, chaude !!), et sommes alles au marche le matin (les habitants des tous les petits villages des vallees environnantes viennent y vendre toute sorte de produits, en costume traditionnel). Pour notre dernier jour dans la region, nous avons loue des velos pour nous rendre a Ganlanba, une ville tres sympa situee a 30km de Jinhong (la route longe le Mekong sur toute la distance). Nous avons visite un site de villages de minorites (qui s'est revele etre un espece de parc d ...

... night and the next boat was living on the tuesday to Chiang Saen in Thailand. I really wanted to travel to Thailand by land also i thought it would be cheaper, until they told me the price of the boat ticket ( 80 euros ) I was expecting it about 30euros, that's what i read on different forum on internet, but at the end it was more expensive to do it this way than to fly from Beijing to Bangkok and from Bangkok to Chiang ...

... rice dish native to the area. They serve a mixture of rice and pineapple cooked inside the pineapple and it's amazing, so sweet! The next day we headed out to a botanical garden and rain forest tour. I'm not going to lie, it was wholly disappointing. The botanical garden did have a monkey, but it was so man-made and sterile that it wasn't very enjoyable. The "rain forest" had a convenient stone path and we just walked on a short circular trail. All I ...