Dali Hotels - Comments and Reviews

Dali (old town) is a beautiful old place, with small alleyways, bustling markets and tranquil streams flowing right through the middle of its streets. What we will always remember though is being taken under the wing of two drunk Chinese businessmen who bought us dinner on our first night, after we stumbled into a very local restaurant away fro...

Cold.. Thinking of going to Xishuangbanna next, but hard to find hostels/guesthouses online: Nanmuya cafe & guesthouse SanCha He Nature Reserve Tree Guesthouse Banna Guesthouse 212 3679 Jingyong Hotel Banna Hotel Ban Lai Trade Guesthouse (212 8371) Wanli Dai Restaurant Dai Building Hotel Dai Guesthouse Yourantai Xishuangbanna The NaMuYa Cafe...

Well, unfortunately the meal at the King World gave Cherry a bad case of food poisoning, and she was very unwell the following morning. As she was unable to do much more than get up to the bathroom, I spent the morning negotiating as best as I could with the hotel's reception staff for a late departure, as our train for Dali did not leave until ...

As "compensation" for our co-ordinators being rubbish and for us generally missing out on everything, Mr Zheng said he would pay for kung fu and tai chi lessons for all of us, and a trip to the hot springs. This excited the group greatly - the kung fu lessons were good fun although very tiring, and the hot springs were just the thing to aid our ...

Journee tranquille, c'est a dire qu'apres un solide petit dejeuner nous marchons jusqu'a la sortie ouest de la ville. Nous montons un peu a flanc de montagne, jusqu'a l'entree du telesiege, qui nous permet de monter de 700 ou 800 metres en 10 minutes au lieu de 2 heures - on est d'humeur presseuse aujourd'hui. En haut nous attend un temple, ou d...

I really didn't do a lot today. While everyone else were talking of heading out to a nearby mountain I was considering staying at the guesthouse and chewing the cud. In the end the others ended up going to some nearby hot-springs - that sounded much more appealing but I refused their invitations and stayed back. I was feeling a bit moody I suppo...

The overnight train from Kunming brought us to Xiaguan, also known as New Dali city. A 10pm departure led us to arrive at 6 am. It was still pitch black when we stepped off the train, so we were sort of at a loss of what to do from there. While using the restroom, some dude starting conversing with Star to ask whether we wanted to rent a 'driver...

Writing from Dali city in the heart of the Yunan province...Here's a quick rundown of what we've been up to lately. - The Sunday Market in Kashgar was just as spectacular as I expected. It's difficult to describe, quite surreal - almost as if we were in an Indiana Jones movie or something. Unfortunately I burnt my pictures to a cd and deleted my...

It wasn't too early a start which was quite good as some of us were feeling a bit worse for wear. Today was my birthday and we had a six hour bus journey ahead of us, not the best way to spend a birthday, but hey compared to last year it was heaven! First of all we had to get back out of the gorge and back to Margo's to pick up our bags. We were...

Overlooking the ripening winter wheat and vegetable fields, Erhai Lake, Dali's three pagodas, and the old town, Wu Wei Temple remains a mountain haven for Kung Fu practitioners. The temple is tucked into a pine forest on the slopes of Cang Shan, which rises to over 4,000 meters, the realm of snow. Amongst the pines, ferns unfurled their fiddlehe...