We shamelessly use this medium to wish each and every one of you a New Year filled with health, love and happiness and, of course, a little adventure!! Two days prior, we had driven up this same road to Deqin. Now, were totally surprised at how the scenery had changed. The dry mountains were now covered with a thin, sparkly white layer of frost, the pine trees were a golden yellow and the narrow road was super-slippery. In a few days, the road would be impassible. We were Lijiang-bound with Chengdu in our crosshairs. From Deqin, it would have taken us 5-7 days of rough, dangerous jeep safari crossing snowing mountain tops and uncertain passes. We possessed the cojones but not the money nor the time to undertake such an adventure. The plan was to stopover
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