Lijiang Resorts - Comments and Reviews

There's a lot of bragging rights attached to be a traveler, rather than a tourist, and seeing a place long before others. Xu Xiake can claim such bragging rights throughout Yunnan, as he was one of the first travel writers to describe places across south-west China. He lived some five centuries ago, grew up in the eastern part of China, and deve...

After five days in dusty dirty Kathmandu one is more than ready to peace out. But after five days at the Hyatt Regency Kathmandu living the 5 star life by shamelessly mooching off of Fuj's sister and coworker we were clinging to the crisp white bed sheets, sparkling toilet bowls, plethora of toilet paper and basking in steam room and jacuzzi for...

We left Dali on the 7.30am bus which was to take 3 hours to reach Lijiang, the next main town on the Yunnan tourist trail. On the way the bus stopped at a strange jewellery superstore, a large room nearly as big as an exhibition hall filled with nothing but jewellery shops, mostly selling expensive jade (that we could n't afford - some were sell...

Well we've had a slight change of plan! In the early hours of Monday morning Melanie was getting really sick and we realised it was altitude sickness (anyone with brains might have picked it up sooner, but then hindsight is a wonderful thing!). It had been coming on since we started the trek in Tiger Leaping Gorge as she hadn't been sleeping at ...