San Ta Yuan Hotel Dali

... viikon. Dali on pieni kaupunki, noin 100 000 asukasta lonelyplanetin mukaan. Kiinan mittakaavassa todellakin pieni kaupunki ja ihanaa vaihtelua suurkaupunkien jälkeen.<br><br> Ensimmäinen asia mitä huomasimme saavuttuamme, oli kirkkaan sininen taivas. Piti ihan muistella, missä viimeksi näin sinistä väriä taivaalla. Taisi olla Pekingissä. Kaikissa muissa Kiinan ...

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... the ramshackle market that we walked through to get there. Suffice it to say that we didn't quite manage the supposedly "amazing" 11km hike to the far end. We did manage to get ripped off by some charming (looking) Taoist monks at the Zhonghe Temple though. All we can give as advice is that if you don't want to be tapped for an extortionate 'donation', don't fall for the "do you want to light a ...

... out. B2 felt several people brush up against his backpack; one person managed to get into the outside pocket and gave a real tug on an internal pouch. Luckily, there was nothing worth taking in that outside-most pocket (we packed it that way). A2 wore her bag mostly on the front when walking in very crowded areas. We are thinking about putting mouse traps just in side the outer flap on B2's back pack. After the first night we moved to a cheaper guest ...

If you go first to Dali and then to Lijiang, you'll love both but if you go first to Lijiang and then to Dali, there's a 90% chance you'll hate Dali. Half the travellers I met said don't bother with Dali and the other half thought it was unmissable. I decided to put aside just one day to make up my own mind. I'm in the latter category. It was ok and probably a ...

... around us who were trying to sleep. Day 12 - Kunming to Hong Kong - Tuesday, December 9th After only three hours of sleep we were in Kunming with a round of wicked hangovers and a three hour wait until our flight back to Guangzhou. We arrived in Guangzhou at 10am and were on a train to Hong Kong by 11am. I was back in my room here in Hong Kong by 2pm Tuesday afternoon..... in 24 hours we had taking a 40-minute bus, an 8-hour sleeper train, a 2-hour ...

... communicating with the teacher through mime mostly...! I can't thank Becca enough for getting me iChinese for my phone either! You just draw any character onto the screen and it tell you what it is!! So.. Shane.. looked at me today and I was like God your eyes are yellow, and he's had a pain in his side (sround appendix area) since sunday so a precautionary visit to the doctor was in order! His description of the hospital was hilarious. First off, he's ...

... I'm tired still. I am considering going to a monastery...to learn kung-fu, you didn't think.... I'm tired of traveling, not tired of life... *** WORLD CHANGE STARTS WITH EDUCATED CHILDREN! Give a girl the life long gift of education! Support my appeal 100 GIRLS BACK TO SCHOOL! Donate at: www.justgiving.com/100GirlsBackToSchool Your money goes directly to ROOM TO READ (www.roomtoread.org)! Hugs &amp; Kisses, Vik

A much better bus trip brought me to Dali, which sits in a valley at 6,600 feet with a huge lake on one side and mountains of over 13,000 feet on the other. "Old" Dali is a preserved slice of old China and what I pictured China would be like, although I knew the big cities would be modern. The city is walled and gated, with cobblestone streets, traditional Chinese facades, temples and "the Three Pagodas" for which it ...

... lads and a couple of porkers. The poor horse also had thinning hair and an open wound on its back, so being the kindly westeners that we are, Toby, Jelle and I decided to run alongside the carriage whilst the others (including the porkers) moved to the back of the carriage. In the village of Shangshi (it might be called that or i might have made it up, our tour co-ordinators are rubbish), we sampled the famous local food: ciabbatta - like pie known by the ...