Yunnan to Sichuan

About 3 hours into the bus ride, I knew it was going to be a long one. The bumpy and rutted road was winding through the mountains madly and we doubled back so many times that I was starting to think we had made no progress at all. The bus was fairly new, but unfortunately [...]

Black Dragon Pool

I beat feet out of the crowded Lijiang and into the quiet and sprawling Black Dragon Pool park. They wanted a whopping 60Y to enter (Chinese entrance prices are astounding) but I used a trick a Dutch couple here shared with me. I threw me PADI scuba diving card down, which has my picture on [...]

One more day

“Mei you” Baba was shaking his head no with the phone in his hand. No more buses to Cheng-du today, so looks like I get one more sunny day in Lijiang. I can tell when it is time to leave a place. New faces begin to arrive, the conversations (mostly about the gorge or Tibet) [...]

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