Well they say a picture is worth a thousand words, so rather than bore you with another manuscript, and now that I have a computer at my disposal, I’m going put that theory to the test. After Kunming, we went to Dali on the 6th of March, staying there until our departure for Lijang on the 9th March. Both of these places were beautiful scenic alpine villages, close to many of the colourful ethnic minority tribes who make the 8% of the population who are not Han Chinese. These tribes, such as the Naxi and the Bai, live much the same lives they always have, tending their crops and herds with very little evidence of modern intervention such as electricity. Apart from Brendon getting struck down with food poisoning, we found an enormous freedom as we
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