The next morning it was time to move on, and trying to find the right bus stop was an absolute nightmare, with Chinese people directing us in all sorts of different directions, and eventually getting some poor Tuktuk woman to drive us, and all of our bags to the long distance bus station. When we finally got there we caught a monstrous series of buses and eventually shared a minibus with some Chinese students and made it up to Guoliangcun, which is a small and awesome village in the mountains, with a "ski resort" (one piste lacking somewhat in incline) and a very dodgy route connecting it to the world. To get there one had to drive off road, in a crudely carved tunnel/cliff path up some rather steep inclines, until eventually, you pass by a
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