Blogs from Dali, Yunnan, China, Asia - page 9

Only a short report today. Have visited 3 pagodas and 7 temples. To tell the truth I was not too bothered about this visit, but I went and was glad I had, it was very interesting and needless to say, a great photo opportunity. Sadly, Frank, one of the group, put his camera down. He forgot about it for a short time, you can guess the rest, when he realised he had forgotten it and went to find it, it had gone! Someone had taken it along with the 600 photos he had taken. Devastating! Climbed Cang Sham Mountain, 4122m. had a good walk on the paths. ... read more

Had another very good day with temperatures at 30 deg +, and I am still slapping on the sun screen. Have been on the roof top terrace of the Hiadong East Sea Resort hotel and spent time watching a spider that was at least 2 and a half inches in diameter, in fact China seems populated by huge spiders! The town is 2100m above sea level. Rode about 43 miles today, it was difficult, with a 10 kilometer climb, I was almost (but not quite) in bottom gear! The ride down was great and there at the bottom was the most monstrous cement works I have ever seen, it had 3 kilns. I imagine some of the cement from there finds its way to Britain, as we have started importing Chinese cement. Had coffee in a ... read more

Any man named David is lucky and is generally a premium person. The David who killed Goliath, The Naked David in Florence (it’s easy to get girls when you have the best body ever), my two wonderful friends, one from America and one from Scotland and now I can add David, the Australian who owns the best hostel in the world. Alex mentioned that Hugo and I needed to stay at the Jade Emu hostel as it was acquiring some 95% approval ratings; we needed to check this out. Having arrived at the location, I marveled at the courtyard. A homely square with exquisite an pool table, full proxy across the wireless allowing such marvel sights as facebook and youtube to be reached and not only toilet paper in the bathrooms, but soap…oh the glory of ... read more

Ja. Bila je zelo dolga sobota v Daliju! Najprej sem se prezgodaj zbudila in ugotovila da je ob sestih se cista tema! OK, pogled skozi okno ob sedmih...ze svetlo (ne pozabite, da ima celotna Kitajska enoten casovni pas, raztezajo pa se cez dejanskih pet pasov! Seveda so na Beijing time). Malo dezja malo cisto jasnega na nebu. Ob osmih in se malo: ogromna mavrica na nebu nad Dalijem in njegovimi gorami. Seveda vsi fotografi na terasi nad strehami, super nadgradnji ponudbe nasega hostla. Kombinacija dezja in sonca se nam pribliza...super cajt za se eno kratko rundo spanja. Po zajtrku ena fajn dolga jutranja kava: Yunnan kava. Ja, Yunnan ima svojo kavo in je prez dodatkov, prevec mleka, ki ti ga ponavadi tu vlijejo, prav dobra. Potem pa pocasi pod pod noge...po moji ulici navzgor!Najprej po par ... read more

der weg nach china beginnt mit einer unendlich langen busreise. um 6 uhr in der frueh werden wir zur busstation gebracht, nicht wirklich eine station sondern irgendein bilingual (chinesisch/laotisch) beschriftetes haus. nach und nach werden weitere chinesen angekarrt, nur chinesen, wir sind die einzigen europaer. eine halbe stunde spaeter kommt schliesslich unser bus. die fahrt auf laotischer seite gestaltet sich relativ abenteuerlich, da die strassen in etwa die breite des busses haben, teilweise nicht asphaltiert sind und sich in unzaehligen kurven gen norden winden. der zweite treibstoff des busses sind zigaretten, ohne die der bierbaeuchige , mit rayban-plagiat bebrillte, chinesische fahrer keinen zentimeter faehrt. der gegenverkehr auf der viel zu kleinen strasse zwingt ausserdem zu regelmaessigen huporgien. waehrend eines aufenthalts in einem laotischen chinarestaurant laesst si... read more