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Xishuangbanna

Posted on 21. Mar, 2010 by yoyo.

Xishuangbanna is the chinese Thailand. Or maybe the Thai frontier. It’s more like an outpost of south east Asia, set in southern Yunnan.
Walking the streets of Jinghong, the region’s capital, you notice the difference immidiately. People are darker skinned, they wear shorter cloths, tree-tops shade you from the sun and different cuultures show their presence. [...]

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Er-Hai Lake and Shaxi to Er-Yuan

Posted on 22. Dec, 2009 by yoyo.

 
Or: Dali- Shuang-Lang  -  Sha-Ping  -  Shaxi  -  Er-Yuan  -  Dali
Getting utterly bored of Dali’s old city, after spending 6 nights there as Dor was sick, we decided to make a change. Dali itself, the old city that is, is a big, extremely touristic (though Chinese more than foreign tourists), walled shopping area. but, on [...]

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Sleeping

Posted on 21. Dec, 2009 by yoyo.

Zhongdian (Shangri-La): we stayed at 3 different places: Youth Hostel, just outside the old city, 20RMB for dorm, extremely slow computers, extremely bad service, hot-showers only at particular hours.
Harmony Gusethouse, from the main square in the old city turn left and an immidiate right (coming from the new city), 20RMB per night, 1 slow computer, hot [...]

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Mekong to Nujiang. Almost…

Posted on 08. Dec, 2009 by yoyo.

Yeah, I know this is December, and you’re not supposed to try crossing high mountain passes. but, it’s fun.
We took yet another bus to Deqin, arriving there for the 3rd time, and from there, the following morning a bus to Ce-Chong
(8:00AM, 28RMB, 3.5 hou rs). the bus

takes you along the Mekong river, which makes beautiful curves [...]

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Deqin to Yubeng- a Wonderful Circuate

Posted on 29. Nov, 2009 by yoyo.

Or: Deqin-Xidang-Yubeng-Xidang-Deqin
Hoping for better weather than in Zongdian (Shangri-La), although against most odds, we took a 9:20AM bus to Deqin (bus station, 46RMB, 6-8hours). the ride is long, but relatively not very bumpy, as it has an actuall road. the road climbs through a series of beautiful, and freezing, mountain passes.
Deqin itself is an ugly [...]

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