Hotel Dali

... Chau we travel to Hanoi and if things go to plan we will visit our guides family on the way. Four nights at the Elegance 2 Hotel Hanoi a fabulous meal at Brother's Cafe Resturant, a day trip to the Purfume Pagoda, a Cyclo ride, the water Puppet show and ...

... can be seen views to Er Hai Lake Our guide in Dali was another young man, Aaron. On the journey to our hotel we passed through parts of Dali new city. We also passed the shore of Er Hai Lake with a beautiful mountain backdrop. Aaron said it was often ...

... 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 11 p.m.  Even then, we'd have to leave the hotel at 6, and ...

... please note, the cable car stops operating at 6 pm). If you look for a less demanding hike, you could hike from your lunch place to the North, to Taoxi Stream, from where you have views over the City of Dali with the Three Pagodas and into a valley.  ...

... , despite promises by the ticket salesman of the contrary. It wasn't difficult to get to the right Dali by public bus and then find a lovely hotel. The YuYuan Hotel comes highly recommended: quiet setting within the city walls by an artificial stream, a ...

... shout for the driver to stop – they got off and walked into their place – they weren’t even staying at the hotel. We did the main tourist things the next day - visited the Three Pagodas in the morning. The big one is 16 stories high and ...

... also near our hotel), good food. (We eat 2-3 times a dayin restaurants, and it costs all together about $15 p.p. THIS good hotel costs $9 a room per night - it is like in Vietnam, and they also do laundary  andhave free internet). Usually every place ...

... suitable for a western tourist as long as they didn’t mind the squatty potty.  When we come back to Dali, we will probably use this hotel for a home base for a couple of days so that we can explore the surrounding area.  We arrived back ...

... Nachtbus nach Kunming, ist zwar eine urze Strecke, aber ich spare eine Uebernachtung. Dafuer habe ich mir in Kunming ein gutes Hotel geleistet. Von Kunming geht es dann mit dem Flieger zurueck nach HongKong und drei Tage spaeter von Macao nach Manila. ...

... in the rice fields.  Price, 2 Yuan, or about 28 cents!  I bought them for decoration, but when we went back to the hotel I tried them on, they are really comfortable!  So, when we went back to town later, I bought another pair in my size so ...

... sure how he managed it after  the previous night). We enjoyed the atmosphere for a couple of hours before heading back to the hotel. Here we found an upset Ali who informed us she had made the decision to leave the truck and that a new tour leader ...

... which is a walled city. Our guesthouse was run by a Tibetan guy called Jim… in fact it was called Jim’s Tibetan Hotel. It was a great place with nice rooms, great food, mountain bikes for hire, a roof terrace and great staff including Jim who ...

... we both arrived feeling fairly rested in scenic Dali, ready to embark on the next leg of our Wild China adventure. (by Jack) Dali is described in the 'Lonely Planet' as "the original, funky, banana-pancake backpacker hang-out" of the Yunnan Province. ...

... side the outer flap on B2's back pack.   After the first night we moved to a cheaper guest house named Yu Yuan Hotel.  They had free laundry and internet at half the price so it was a much better deal than Tibetan Jim's.  On the ...

... and tables outside, and it was good to be able to sit outside, have a drink and watch the passing parade.  The hotel was the courtyard type, very comfortable and attractive. I was glad there were no issues as no staff member had any English. Our ...

... posing for photos (No Tripitaka or that Fish guy though). The guidebooks say that there has been a bit of a competition between Dali and Lijiang for tourists, and that Lijiang is winning, and we could see why. Lijiang simply looks more authentic, with a ...

... blend in with the locals. Ha! I know blending in with the locals is not the thing for many of my dear friends back in shanghai, Dali is like Yangshuo in some ways, all I can say is I love chilling out and just getting lost in the old town. One thing ...

... Maybe we didn't come at the right season, I was just not impressed with the mountain and the lake though the old Dali town is quite interesting. I really like the ancient town setting, the white-walled traditional buildings by the Bai minority group, ...

... nbsp; There were so few travelers around Dali it never occured to me that I might know someone else in town. Dali is supposed to be a great place for travelers to go and have fun hanging out, but, where there aren't many travelers, ...