Lugu Lake Da Ba Hotel Lijiang

... which even includes what dishes they should eat for each dinner. Bian Xiaoheng can be paid at RMB20 to 50 yuan for each travel plan and now she can earn over RMB2000 yuan per month. The prosperity of Internet creates many new job roles and offers a number of effective information for the sufficient employment. Same as Bian Xiaoheng, many college graduates who know of internet and are familiar with network operation ...

... 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 ...

... opposed to our other Chinese bus rides, only the drivers were smoking and with the A/C on, we didn't smell that too much. But our fellow (male!) passengers seemed to be regulars in these water-free bathrooms - they all smelled sooooo badly that we were glad when they slipped under the blankets. The fat middle-aged guy next to Thomas didn't. He preferred sleeping uncovered with his disgusting old-man's briefs pulled over his belly. The re-incarnation of chairman Mao, I ...

... in a different bus headed to the same place as us....we arn't stalking them really! After some difficulties with people trying to fit bikes in we set off to the town at the start of TLG - Quitou! 2 and 1/2 hours later we arrived and the fabled Australian woman Margot (who was to be taking our ex-tour group up the gorge) got on our bus and started shouting instructions at us - it turned out that the huge group on the bus with us had not booked accomodation yet and so ...

Ruud and I packed our things and boarded the bus for our 2-hour bus ride to the small village of Quiaotou at the southern end of Tiger Leaping Gorge. The bus trip itself was nice as we headed further into the mountainous region of Yunnan Province.

Without question, Tiger Leaping Gorge is one of the most stunning natural sites I've seen on the planet. The Gorge itself is 16km long (as the crow flies ...

With the days hike ahead of us I felt no guilt (ok maybe a little, but only a little) in wolfing down as much Baba bread as Mama piled onto my plate much to her delight, that still did not stop me polishing off half of Lihi's either. Lightweight. The mini bus to the gorge went direct from the guest house with 5 of us in it, the others being 2 more Israelis, by far the most common travelers I've met in western China. We arrived at the start of the gorge two hours ...

It takes its name from a stone from which a tiger is said to have leapt across a narrow stretch of the Yangtze River to escape it captors. It is one of the deepest in the world at 16km long and around 3900m from river to mountain top and a fantastic place for a bit of walking. We took a 2 hour ride in a minivan with a group of people we met the night before in Lijiang to a ...

... found that the price of beer was going up 50p at every outlet and our budget could have taken a serious hammering. In fact most places in China seem to be fairly expensive in comparison to its neighbouring countries. We visited the Black Dragon Pool Park, which cost us nearly 12 pounds to get into, which was pretty but nothing much going on. The clothes however are very cheap, so we are eating knickers from now on. Apart from the lake, and taking ...

... gebotst. Alle twee niet goed uitgekeken, zeg maar. De vrouw heeft een klein scheurtje in haar broek die al tot op de draad versleten was, en een klein schaafwondje. Samen met alle passagiers van de bus staat ze verdwaasd en teleurgsteld naar haar knie te kijken. De omstaanders beginnen met haar te discussieren. OK, ze gaan er hier geld uit proberen te slaan. Na mijn onvergefelijke fout op de ...

... into the rock by years of traffic. The traffic of little boots worn by the Naxi people for whom this is the main road. We elect to stay at a small inn after cursing so many hand painted signs quoting optimistically small distances to the next suggested place of accommodation. A little ploy no doubt by competing establishments ! You can imagine incidents of 'sign rage' on the mountain, with them all repositioning each others markers to gain an advantage. Next ; Tiger Leaping Gorge part 2