Blogs from Yunnan, China, Asia - page 146

Vi er nu i Lijiang i Yunnan provinsen, 1500 m. o.v. , her har vi vaeret liidt laengere end foerst planlagt; vi har snart vaeret her en uge hvoraf vi brugte 4 dage i sengen... Men jo jo det har skam vaeret meget begivenhedsrigt.. Startede med diarre, opkast og en noget for hoej feber for Henrik som saa var syg en dag hvor Inge legede ond dokter med termometer. Feberen vendte heldigvis lige som hun skulle til at gaa ned og fagte/bruge vores phrasebook'e sig frem til en (endnu ondere) laege. MEN, saa blev hun selvfoelgelig selv syg sidst paa nr 2 dag, og noget mere voldsomt; opkast i alt 10 gange paa 4 timer (personlig rekord!) og samtidig diarre. Dette med 5-10 min mellem bundvendinger foerte naturligvis til at Inge blev ganske dehydreret! Hun ... read more

4/5/06 Got to pick up a tour group in Kunming by the 7th of May to Yuanyang. As it was the golden week holiday, so I took the chance to see a bit of outskirt Kunming by coming down few days earlier. it costed me a day to sort out which bus station for the destination I was heading to. 1st I went to HuangTuPo, no...it is for LuQuan direction, but still I took a local bus to MaJie, don't know what they'd to offer there only feel familiar with the name, and right...not much to write about but they said every Sunday there will be a huge market, but also said there will be no minority dress hill tribe could be seen too. Still...could be a good Sunday out if you happen to be in ... read more

Lijiang has undergone a decade long operation. The operation was a huge success. Incidentally, the patient is now in a coma. What was once a quaint town mostly housing the Naxi minority was earmarked for tourism development ten years ago. Ten years later, the once 30,000 strong Naxi minority living in the old town has dwindled to a few thousand. What has replaced it are souvenir shops run by Han Chinese (the majority in China). When you see a Naxi in traditional dress, he does so for the benefit of the tourists. the result is the saccharine feeling of Disneyland. You half expect someone dressed up as Naxi Mouse (whatever that may be) to show up and hug the kids. Sadly, this trend is quite prevalent across China, with perfectly nice little villages becoming the target ... read more

Puhh hvilket doegn ind i Kina! I forgaars (26.) ved 15 tiden da vi krydsede graensen til Kina viste det sig at vores lonely planet guidebog er ulovlig i Kina! velkommen til cencurens land; paa kortet bagpaa har Taiwan en anden farve end Kina, og da Taiwan "er en del af Kina!" er bogen altsa bandlyst, med alt hvad det indebaerer af TOTALT loste tourister i et land hvor 98 procent ikke kan et ord engelsk (det virker i hvert fald saaden). Paa trods af alle protester, jeg (inge) var parat til at tude hvis jeg havde troet det ville faa bogen med mig, maatte jeg selv " frivilligt" opgive bogen og min gerning blev dokumenteret med et foto, SAA kunne vi faa lov til at gaa.. Min helt nye mega dyre bog som jeg havde ... read more

Driving out of Lijiang was kinda sad. We've had a wicked time so far in China and our time at the A Liang (free press, those guys are awesome) guesthouse had been particularly good. It was also the end of our independent travel for a while, as once in Zhongdian we are to meet up with three others and share a jeep for the 8 day drive overland into Lhasa, the Tibetan capital. We drove the same road that leads to Tiger Leaping Gorge and so the scenery was beautiful - pine forests, the rumbling river, mountains everywhere and blue, blue sky. I fell asleep for only 20 minutes and all this changed. When I awoke we had driven up onto a vast plain, dry and desolate it was populated by yaks as far as the ... read more