Huo Fa Hotel Jinghong
No.8 Menglong Road Jinghong, Yunnan, China
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Sweet and Sour
... crowds and the "me first" attitude, you are seduced by friendly, happy folks enjoying simple pleasures.
Down on the river front, there is a pathed and decorated walkway overlooked by new high rises and a host of restaurants and bars. The Mekong is a pleasure for us to see again. We last experienced this mighty river when we were in Laos in 2006, so it is nostalgic for us to be beside it again. Originally, we had looked into taking a boat from Jinghong to Huoy Xai ...
And then there was Snow
... shady aspects of this with a casual shrug of the shoulders we decided to trust them as at that point we seemed to have no other option.
It was the most fascicle of operations as Robbie filled out endless amounts of information supervised by the Policeman over his left shoulder occasionally shouting at him and forcefully indicating where Robbie was going wrong by using the end of his baton to point to mistakes and me on his right shoulder looking completely useless as ...
Back to the Tropics
Jinghong was our last stop in China and is completely different from what we have experienced so far. For starters, it was a lot warmer but, thankfully, not as humid as Vietnam in June. Also, there was a lot of Thai influence of the Dai ethnic minority (about 30% of this region), with Thai characters on every sign and the style of the buildings and other decorations.
We had picked a hostel on the quiet side of ...
Back to party crashin', this time Dai family
There are several very large tourist maps posted on the wall in the Many Trees Hostel in Jinghong, where I am staying; so every time I went up and down the stairs, I stop to look at them.
Well, I have been in love with maps forever, so I almost am always looking at these maps. One of the maps is a huge display of the city, and the other is a big display of the province, showing all of the small villages/towns with pictures diptcting the significant ...
Hiking slightly off the tourist trail
... over a squat toilet ... the hotel wasn't too bad all considered but it was hard to find as it only had chinese characters identifying it and after our traumatic toilet and dirty bus day we were looking for a bit more comfort than it afforded. However it was fine for the night and the following day we found the western cafe strip and was randomly referred to an unnamed hostel with a private room for the three of us with a clean bathroom and a western toilet. We ...


