Jim's Tibetan Hotel Dali

... in the direct sun, but very cold at night or in the shade. We were relived to easily find a great place to stay - Jim's Tibetan Guesthouse (its strange how so many Chinese who work in the tourist industry seem to have nice homely western names like Jim, ...

... just down the street from the Lodge.  I checked it out and the rooms looked very good.  I also checked out Jim's Tibetan Guesthouse and the single room looked clean and was very small. Would probably be better than the Lodge but everytime I went ...

... a bus to Dali which was a mere three hours drive away and arrived in the small walled town about 9, checking straight into Jim's Tibetan Guesthouse which we had found in the LP. The enigmatic Jim greeted us the moment we stepped through the door into his ...

... . Back at the hostel we ran into some Americans in the room next to ours, and went for food with them to Jim's Tibetan Cafe. I had Tibetan Goulash, which had Yak meat and goat cheese and an array of vegetables, which was tasty. After we had eaten we ...

... pagodas. I went back a couple of years ago and recalled the little market villages nearby. Nothing in Dali itself seemed familiar, although Jim of Jim's Tibetan Restaurant thinks he probably hired me a bicycle as he was the only one doing that back then.