Shangri-La Diqing Xinhua Hotel

... Y40=24nis. It is about 2 hours to Chiato. On the way I realized I better sleep in the lower tiger gorge! I went to Tina's. I went down - is you are strong(to climb back), you can reach the river. It started to rain. I went to the bridge, there is an inn+restaurant there, guess who was there? Yoav. Eyal, he has PHd in computers from the technion and has been working in a start-up.<br> The calmness made me healthy again!!!<br><br>11/9 - Lijiang<br ...

... I buy hazelnuts from a roadside vendor after trying a sample. Each one is slightly split for ease of opening.<br><br>We have a room reserved at Kevin's Trekkers Inn. We got the only double bed as requested but it is rock hard. <br><br>We eat at a restaurant called "Ancient Path Household Chafing Dish Store". It specializes in hot pot. We want something without meat so order mushroom hot pot. A propane burner is in the middle of the table ...

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... the Red Army and that this was why they were successful, and also some great propaganda pictures on how happy life is in Diqin now that the Han have introdued a better standard of living through modernisation. Images of women in traditional Naxi dress lugging TV boxes and close ups of satellite dishes were the proof. This was also free and inspired some additional reading on our part - so definitely worth an hour or so. On our ...

... altitude regions and know that my body does not handle it very well.) Shangri-la is at 3200 m high while Lhasa is about 3600 and higher. So in a tourist bus I go with another 4 - 5 hour ride. Again, great views along the mountain range and good roads. In Shangri-la I have to start taking Diamox that same night and after that everything seems fine the following day. I have a decent and clean room ...

... les gens du bus disent qu'ils ne vendent pas de billet aux etrangers, parque c'est le reglement cette annee (il y a eu des manifestations dans cette region en mars ....) Verification avec la police locale, ils confirment que les etrangers sont interdits. Pense, pense et pense encore....;. Je veux y aller, j'ai vais!!! 7 ...

... more low to the ground. We chose and found our hostel easily, with the help of the nice driver. Things up in Zhongdian are slightly more expensive. And changes happening to the infrastructure definitely point toward the fact that this city is headed on the route to high-riding off the influx of tourism. One good thing to have read about, however, was that the government is trying to avoid the Dali and Lijiang model of ancient cities being unable to keep up with the ...

... so they could see themselves on the digital camera. We had a game of football with the locals (i nearly died after a few minutes of running because of the altitude) and sat with a monk outside his monastery for an hour admiring the view. This was the most amazing place i had ever been. As we walked through the streets at dusk a local on a motorbike stopped to say hello and i jokingly asked for a lift. He took me on a tour of the town and then to his mums ...

... appeler le proprietaire d une guesthouse qu ils se sont fait conseiller. Il viendra nous chercher en 4x4. Cette "Harmony guesthouse" est geniale, et comme me l a fait judicieusement remarquer Paul, forcement connaisseur, le living room ressemble a s y meprendre a un Irish Pub. Le lendemain, on fait la visite du monastere du coin et le soir, autour d un biere, on planifiera un trekking ensemble autour de Deqin... Meme si je sais deja que je ne vais pas ...

... walked for 6 hours this day - we didn't arrive at our next stop until after 2pm. The start was very hard going - lots of uphill and quite narrow tracks - but the views were wonderful, and as we walked we could hear cowbells and the river rushing below, and for a treat in China - no traffic! We walked through some pine trees (which reminded me of Christmas!), and up some rocky steep paths, but we finally made it to the top, and from there it was mostly ...