New Tai Garden Jinghong

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... Government along the Mekong.<br>We feel very honored, because Madam Dao, Governor of Xishuanbana, chose to have dinner with us, not all the Officials. It was an informal dinner of friends. Invited were the people who came to Australia last year. We met them in Mildura and had a wonderful time with them and tonight was a meeting of old friends. Madam Dao also invited the Mayor of Jinghong. He hopes to come to Australia next trip. The food was ...

... day and all night. The people look completely different and there is a much more relaxed feeling to the area. <br><br>Tomorrow we leave at 9am for a 2 day/1 night trek to some local villages. This time we have hired an English speaking guide called &#8216;Mr Rush&#8217; who will be accompanying us. He is very nice and friendly and has excellent English. We found him through Mei Mei&#8217;s café and they arranged him to come and meet us. We will be spending the night ...

... else the next day. I found quite a nice hotel for 110 yuen. It was clean and quite large but a bit far from the center. I met another lady who was staying in a guesthouse and was paying 50 yuen so I checked there and ended up taking a room for 70 yuen with computer in the room (They did not have wifi!!). It is facing the temple just a couple of streets from MeiMei Restaurant. (the hotel name is Yun Da Hotel - Fax ...

... control department, who declined to be named. He said the amount of investment would be decided only after the plan was finalized. The number of Chinese infected with malaria dropped from 24 million in the early 1970s to several hundred thousand in the late1990s. China was basically free of malaria, except southwestern Yunnan Province and southernmost Hainan Province, at that time, according to the ministry ...

... second day was also fairly lazy. We had been hoping to go to an elephant reserve, but it wasn't in the cards. We wondered around a jade market and also a small park. Dinner was had with Nathan at a 'BBQ' type restaurant. This simply means that they had a little grill that they cook the food on. It is very good, though. Bruno had left early in the day for Laos, so it was just the three of us. We woke up in our hotel room ...

... back we also stopped off at a couple of minority villages - one of the Bulang minority and one of the Hani. Being able to read some Chinese is now proving really interesting as lots of places you go, especially the more rural areas have big characters painted on the walls, setting out various government edicts. And if you go to ill-educated enough areas they are simple enough for me to read! In this area there were numerous ...

... to accept them. "Hotel" may not be the best word to describe the two four-bed dorms this family keeps in their back yard, but behind the tattered curtain that covered the opening to the spider infested concrete cubicle, we found the most powerful flow of the hottest water we have encountered in China and had one of the best showers since we left home. More pictures: http://picasaweb.google.com/Gilli.Guy/G YearWeSavedALifeInXishuangbanna#

... kom derhen kl. 19 var totalt oede saa i stedet for at gaa direkte tilbage gik vi omkring i byen og kom tilfaeldigvis forbi "Burma Road" der bestod af et vaeld af burmesiske smykkeforretninger. Hurtigt videre og saa aftensmad paa en tilfaeldig restaurant. Vi havde billetter til Kunming i aften, men ikke mange planer for dagen. Der var ikke rigtig noget man kunne lave paa 1 dag uden at blive super svedig, hvilket vi gerne ville undgaa da vi ikke kunne komme i bad ...

... effort to bring an ethnic province more into the mainstream&#8230; or it could be because of southern Yunnan&#8217;s special tourist potential as a little &#8216;Thailand in China,&#8221; what with increasingly large numbers of Chinese wealthy enough to tour. I guess I should feel lucky that I even got to see any of the old town at all. Ironically there&#8217;s an office there that says, in the Thai ...