Blogs from Dali, Yunnan, China, Asia

Would be there every year, beautiful lake+amazing people, fall is the best season, pick up a hostel with local coffee and music, you then have all the time in this world.... read more

Hi All. Just a day to spend in Dali so rented an ebike again for 100 rmb for the day. This bike was rather more robust than the one in Daocheng, which was a blessing as I did put it into a small ditch at one point. ?? There are markets in the villages all around Dali and on Fridays a very large market is held in YouSuo. YouSuo took just over and hour to reach on the ebike. The market was wonderfully colourful with many of the woman wearing traditional Bai minority costume. We were looking for the local Batik cloth and we managed to find some and the stall owner told us where to go to find larger pieces. After visiting the market we rode back along the west side of the lake along ... read more

The weather has warmed up, and we are heading south from Chengdu towards Dali. The scenery has changed again and we are driving through gorges lined with tea plantations. Yesterday we went to a tea tasting house which was really interesting, and you understood how the flavours develop with each brewing. On cook group for the last time, this time with Roberto. Lots of fresh vegetables and nice lean pork with egg fried rice - yummy. And now the landscape has changed again with much agriculture. It is a bit of an anomaly with power stations surrounded by local people cultivating the land using ox drawn ploughs, and hand tools. Everywhere you go there are corn cobs drying for pig food (although apart from some pigs in a trailer we haven't actually seen any). They are ... read more

Train from Kunming to Dali, 12:00, 5h, soft sleeper, 166.5Yuan. !---! The Jade Emu International Guesthouse, Dali, China, 100Yuan.... read more

Snad nejoblíbenější destinací západních turistů provincie Yunnan je město Dali (大理), ležící ve středu provincie, mezi hlavním městem Kunming a opičárnou pro čínské turisty, městem Lijiang. Město má zajímavou historii, bohatý kulturní život, leží skvěle posazené mezi krásnými horami a rozlehlým jezerem a v okolí je možné kromě staré a nové části města navštívit spoustu pitoreskních vesniček. Není divu, že město přitahuje spoustu hipíků, velké množství cizinců se ze všech možných míst Yunnanu usazuje právě tady, a ostatně i několik Číňanů se mi svěřovalo, že mají v plánu se přestěhovat do Dali. Mě, jako dočasnému rezidentu Kunmingu, musí stačit tři dny prodlouženého víkendu. Historie města sahá minimálně do dob dynastie Tang (唐), přesněji do 8. a 9. století n.l., kdy Dali bylo hlavním městem království Nanzhao (南詔). Z počátku šlo o vazalský stát tangské říše, jehož ... read more