Peacock Villa
Travel Blogs from Jinghong
Markets and gardens
... s where his admiral father was involved in sorting out the French military forces after independence, then saw him return to France to study law and later renounce the legal profession and become a chef. He had worked all over the place including at the Savoy in London. He very kindly made arrangements for his staff to purchase bus tickets for Tuesday for us to continue our travels into Laos.
He also suggested we might want to visit the night market ...
Jinghong teetering on the border
... fresh but hot as we set off to explore the town. A bagful of mantu – the steamed dumplings that we had been eating for much of our time in China, but whose name we had only just discovered – accompanied us through the nearby Burmese Jade Market. This long street was lined with merchants selling jade and other precious and semi-precious stones. The men were dark-skinned, and most wore the traditional Burmese sarong and a sultry gaze. Jinghong, as with many of the towns ...
From Jinghong to Kunming
... 3.3%). I would later find out that Yunnan has many different types of local beers, all with different bottle sizes and all very weak in alcohol content. Since we had only been snacking while traveling all day, we quickly showered and then went on the hunt for a real meal. The first thing we hit was a grocery store called Daxin Mart and we went in to check it out. The entrance took us up an escalator to the 2nd floor where there was clothing, ...
China: Part II
... criture en Asie du Sud-Est. Les panneaux sont en chinois et en dai.
La ville est agréable avec des arbres le long des rues (surtout des palmiers). Pour peut-être la dernière fois, on était dans une ville sur le Mékong (10ème ville et 4ème pays). La ville n’est peut-être rien d’incroyable, mais comme on retrouvait plein de choses qu’on aimait en Chine, on a passé quelques jours à s’y promener. La cuisine ...
Southwest China to Southeast USA
... rates, and it seemed that every room in town was full. Lijanne, at the Mekong Café, found me a room in a Chinese hotel for 350 yuan, up from the regular price of 60. My puny money was petering out. I pondered. Do I head into Burma or Laos, or back north to Kunming where my flight would leave for Beijing and on to the USA in just one week?
I hung around for 4 days, two of them were spent with an American man and his young Chinese wife exploring the countryside with ...
Location
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