Gua Dai Guo Hotel Lijiang

Lijiang/Tiger Leaping Gorge (Hutiao Xia)<br><br>I took the 7.50am bus to Qiaotou, the starting point for the Gorge west to east.Tiger Leaping Gorge is a canyon of the Yangtze River. It's about 15 km (9 mi) long and 2km (1.5 mi) deep. At the west end of the gorge is the town of Qiaotou. At the east end is the town of Daju. Most people that come here hike from one end to the other, either along the "High Trail" or the "Low Trail". The low trail ...

... 50Yuan and 20 of that was a voucher we could spend in the old town. By the by it was well worth it I got me a much needed leather belt with the voucher, checked into my hostel while the others checked into another guest house. Now the K2 is basic as far as hostels go but I could not help but feel like an unwanted guest at someones house I was ignored most times and then a few vague directions when I asked for information but hey check out the ...

... plein de touristes convergent au meme endroit. Le chien se fait ****e. <br><br>Tout ce qui reste de cette epoque glorieuse sont quelques hippies qui ont des bars et qui passent leur journees ben geles. Chose qui est admirable sauf qui faut aussi naviguer a travers une ville plastique, construite sur mesure pour les hordes de Chinois qui viennent dans le cadre d'un sordide package deal avec le diable. <br><br>Donc Marc qui part etait ...

... move up the animal chain. When you enter a friendly farmer's<br>home, you will be asked if you'd like a chicken or duck for lunch. Your<br>answer will mean life-and-death for the farm animal in question. After I chose "chicken", a young<br>boy chased one down in the courtyard, which his father slaughtered with<br>a knife and his mother cooked in a big cauldron of soup over a wood<br>fire by the hearth. It was a most tummy-warming meal I ...

... honey, tea and orange juice. Bill had orange juice, scrambled eggs, bread, jam and honey. We shared some fruit that tasted like apple and pear. We rented bikes next door for 20 yuan each, but had to leave a deposit of 200 yuan each. We stopped at the Black Dragon Pool Park first. It was founded in the Qing Dynasty during 1737. There are three symbols at the Civilization Gateway where we entered meaning Black Dragon and Pool. It used to be called Yuquan ...

... 20 years of lobbying for the honour to play host. It must be a relief to the leaders in Beijing as well, for who would have thought that this singular event would come to test Chinese fortitude as much as it has over the past year. In as much time as China took to put together the greatest sporting event on earth, its critics' pitch rose over its track record on human rights and democracy, foreign policy on Darfur, position on Tibet, widening income inequality and ...

... to say i passed out. the full day in dali we had the option to do a cable-car / hike toury thing for 4 hours but i didnt want to go and was happy wandering. in the end it got cancelled and instead there was the option to go visit some local villages, see dancing etc etc. unfortunatley i had to make my mind up and get up/dressed within a 2 minute window at some ludicrous'o'clock time and given my love of the morning time in general its safe to say i didnt make it ...

... Chinese Woman) had said that some girls wanted to have their photo taken with me as they said (and I quote), that I looked handsome - ahem - of course! Mae went into the highest post office in China which featured some very cold looking young workers and then we took the cable car back down. Harvey offered me a ride to some of the other attractions within the park as they had a black Mitsubishi Pajero (like a Shogun) with a driver - all very nice so I had to except their offer. We ...

... back to Lijiang, and half of it to find exactly where we are. We found the main square and returned our bikes. We had an hour or so until it gets dark. We travelled around the stores, marking to ourselves the preferred stores where we should come back later on this evening and purchase some stuff. We didn't calculate how many space we've got left in our bags - but we surely understood that we are in heaven of souvenirs. After dark we went to eat at Mama's ...

... almost say that there isnt any traffic here, the city is made up of a maze of windy lanes, you could get lost for hours, there are small streams and a river running through the city too....actually it reminds me a lot like Venice, without the Gondolas and the decomposing buildings. A lot of the buildings here are traditional Naxi style, usually wooden or stone, after an earthquake here in 1996 and after 1999 when UNESCO ...