Yunnan Aviation Sightseeing Hotel Lijiang

... sweet taste of frog legs, but when I spotted an item on the menu
called "beautiful ladies" at a bed-and-breakfast lodge run by a Mosuo
family, I had to ask what it was. The little girl helping out at the
eatery replied: "Deep-fried frog skins - because they look like ladies'
legs!" The crispy-crunchy snack made from leftover frog leg dishes
turned out to be utterly delicious. There are more surprises when your
taste ...

... for the email, glad you FINALLY got round to emailing me. Glad you;re ok. All is well here, food is generally beyond *****, as you can see. Lizi ordered 'Delicious Chicken' last night which consisted of 2 feet (with claws) and some ribcage. Great!! xx

Pa - thanks for the warning about the PLAGUE!!!!!!!!! How mental. Luckily we are nowhere near, but I have been warning other travellers. Let me know if you get some chickens and I will help with names. xx

Ma ...

... We had couples, groups, some buddies and some girls ask us to be in pictures with them (maybe 10 different groups). It was hilarious. We had a lot of fun! A lot of people said something to Bill or gave him the thumbs up because of the shorts and sandals. They must think all Canadians are crazy! An 1 1/2 later we decided to head back down. I bought a Lijiang cake for 5 yuan because I was starving. It tasted like buckwheat and syrup (pancake) and was very ...

... 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#

... We waited patiently enjoying the views. The local cat immediately began to befriend us in hope of getting a portion of our lunch. Lunch came out, no chicken, but scrambled eggs. The claw we thought she made was in fact an egg. So we had eggs, potatoes and fried rice, not the best combo, but the food was good and the cat got plenty. We made an entry into her book, loaded up on water and were on our way. Our plan was to stop at the ...

... bagved os. Vi koebte lidt frugt til morgenmad og haabede paa den foerste minibus der lignede at koere i den rigtige retning. Et busskift og 2 timer senere stod vi endnu engang i Jinghong. Lidt skuffede gik vi tilbage, fik lidt frokost og endte paa netcafeen hvor spillet Hitman 2 pludselig poppede op paa skaermen og af nostalgiske grunde blev noed til at spille i et par timer. Der var et natmarked et sted i byen hvor de ogsaa skulle have god Dai barbecue, men da ...

... a Chinese national holiday. It's a capacity crowd and every narrow lane flanked by small craft shops and eateries is a surging sea of Chinese tourists, flag-waving tour guides and flashing cameras. Their many pictures will show red hanging lanterns and willow trees over streams of crystal clear trickling water. Planks acting as bridges into little shops which sit on the opposite bank to the paths. Skilfully carved timbers, tile roofs and stone pathways ...