Lijiang Golden Spring Hotel

... and it may be the last time to be able to hike on the trail if the government goes ahead with their plan of building a dam there. I left Naxi Family house at 8am and got to Qiautou around 10 just in time to catch a bus back to Lijiang. <br><br>Back in Lijiang, I walked the streets one more time and indulged in local food at Nr. 88 Naxi snacks, at Nr. 52 another Naxi restaurant and at Aan Yoghurt, local made yoghurt that can be ordered with ...

... accomadations in this place as its really starting to take off and more places are opening.<br>Dropped my bags off and then headed for Li Jiang old town via bus cost me 3yuan to get there walked around getting lost in the little alleys which I noticed had a pattern to its touristic madness batik shop, silver jewllery shop, tea shop, dried yak meat shop, scarfs, leather, and then it starts again no wonder I got lost they all started to look the same ...

... br>Ben je leur dis : *************************************** ******<br><br>Et pour ceux qui disent : Voyons donc, on dit pas les choses que Jacob dit qu'on dit pis qu'on pense, y'es vraiment schizophrene phase terminal abreger ses souffrances d'un coup de masse derriere la tete maudit<br><br>Ben je leur dis : Vous existez juste dans ma tete anyway!<br><br>Ici a Lijiang, je suis dans l'auberge de Mama Naxi. Les Naxi sont le groupe ...

... then on to finish the last 2 hours before dark. This part of the walk we passed swveral waterfalls tumbling down the mountain side We arrived at 6.30pm with half an hour of light left. Nath &amp; I got a dorm for 15 yuan for the night ( about $3 each!!) The air was VERY chilly now &amp; we neded to rug up as we sat on this rooftop deck to look over the huge mountains so close &amp; straight opposite us. It ...

Well, we were under the impression that this would be an all-day trip, but it ended up being only 3.5 hours, even though we thought we paid for a car and driver all day. So, it was a miss-communication and we just had to deal with it. We went to Lashi Hai with all three proprietors of our guesthouse (private tour, I guess), and we invited a Canadian couple along. The Lashi Hai was about 20 minutes by car ...

... dancing and singing show going on, so it's lots of fund anyways. The bar we ended up at had more traditional dancing and singing and we really enjoyed it. Today's first excursion was to Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. The mountain at a towering 5500m is the most spectacular view from Lijiang ... when you can see it. Unfortunately for us cloud cover has blocked the view since we got here and it doesn't appear to be letting up anytime soon (looks like ...

... get off my lap, and small puppy, which kept on biting my toes! I packed up my things and about an hour later I flagged down a minivan to give me a lift back to Jane's. The hour long journey was the most scared I have ever been. The entire road was covered with landslides from the mountains which most of the time just left us enough room to squeeze through with a few inches to spare. Quite often the minivan would slide out on the landslides leaving us ...

... say, he didn't like to wash either. Nevertheless, the bus was Ok, with the little bunks instead of seats a completely new and comfortable experience. T: We arrived in Dali at 10 pm. Dali (Old City) which is of touristical interest, is 18km away. As usual, we ignored the touts at the bus station who wanted to pull us into their mini buses because we had a connection with a public bus in mind. But The Book was wrong about directions and after walking several blocks with ...

... tourist ****. After fighting our way through to a travel agency, we managed to book a ticket, but didn't have enough cash to pay for it. The agent was a very nice guy that spoke pretty good English. He ended up walking us to the ATM when he couldn't explain to us how to get there AND BACK. He also pointed out a camera shop that could help us recover some of the photos that were lost from the faulty card. They wanted 300Y to ...

... the gorge and took a few group photos to relish in the moment. Hiking on, we were keeping an eye on the markings along the path from the guesthouses as to how far we had before reaching the next guesthouse. We made it to Tea Horse Guesthouse about 6pm, quite tired and ready to put the feet up. Our friends were keen to make it to Halfway Guesthouse for the night and we deliberated for a while at the turn off what we were going to do. In the end, we decided to try the path a little to see ...