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December 31, 2002New Years in ChengduThe sleeper train from Kunming to Chengdu takes about 18 hours and passes through more than 200 tunnels. It took 10 years to build the railroad...mostly by political prisoners...and...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on December 31, 2002 06:54 AM
TrackBack | Category: China, Hostels & Guesthouses, Trains Perspective On ChinaChina is big. The population is staggering with a billion and a half people. It's a matter of getting perspective. Our home state of Oregon only has about 1.5 million...Read this update December 28, 2002RuiliComing down out of the mountains we were happy to see Ruili lying in the green lush valley below...a larger city than I thought...a Chinese/Burma border town with a...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on December 28, 2002 10:14 PM
TrackBack | Category: China, Conversations, Flights, Food, Hostels & Guesthouses, Touching Experiences, Trains Bob's Thai Village VisitWhile Jana and I were playing with Chinese teenagers in Ruili in the south of Yunnan, Bob spent some time in an ethnic village in the mountains in Issan Province...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on December 28, 2002 06:39 AM
TrackBack | Category: Altercations, Bob's Blogs, Chiang Mai, China, Culture, Flights, Homestays, Minority Groups, Names For Foreigners, Thai Culture, Thailand, Touching Experiences December 25, 2002A Merry Christmas WishToday, Christmas Day, we will take Jana's Blessing and a van back to Tengchong and catch a bus for Ruili on the China-Burma border. While we sit here at...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on December 25, 2002 10:10 PM
TrackBack | Category: Buses, China, Worst Experiences December 24, 2002Xmas At Re Hai Hot SpringsWe went to Re Hai Hot Springs..a short half-hour bus ride from Tengchong. The Asian and European continental shift also resulted in over 80 crystalline hot springs...grand Boiling Hot...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on December 24, 2002 10:07 PM
TrackBack | Category: Best Places, China, Conversations, Hostels & Guesthouses December 21, 2002Volcanos in TengchongA young Chinese woman on the bus had struck up a conversation in English...telling us about the sights around Tengchong. We thought that maybe we could pay her to...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on December 21, 2002 10:01 PM
TrackBack | Category: China, Conversations, Excursions, Hostels & Guesthouses, Myanmar (Burma), Restaurants, Touching Experiences December 20, 2002My Name is Zhuy Yu PingOn the way to Tengchon, the bus climbed high up into the Gaoligong Shan Mountain Range on a winding narrow two lane road...dropping down and then higher up again...beautiful...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on December 20, 2002 09:54 PM
TrackBack | Category: Buses, China, Conversations, Touching Experiences December 19, 2002Domestic Fight in BaoshanThe Lonely Planet description for finding Huacheng Binguan was difficult...the hotel name was the same but the street was different...two Dutch travellers sitting in the lobby with their backpacks...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on December 19, 2002 09:50 PM
TrackBack | Category: China, Hostels & Guesthouses, Worst Experiences December 18, 2002Big Noses In The Back Again!Bus to Dali As we pulled ourselves up into the luxury express bus we felt that we were living large...we wouldn't have local color but we would have comfort...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on December 18, 2002 09:47 PM
TrackBack | Category: Alternative Transportation, Buses, China, Climbs & Walks, Excursions, Funniest Experiences, Names For Foreigners December 16, 2002Koor Yi...Ok OkMonday December 16 OK, OK, OK, (koor yi in Chinese) the woman taxi driver giggles as we pull out of Old Town Lijiang on the way to the bus...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on December 16, 2002 09:44 PM
TrackBack | Category: China, Funniest Experiences, Taxis Conversation With RolandHad a final dinner at familiar and cozy Sekura's Cafe in Old Town Lijiang...splurging on Western food...sharing our beer with Roland, a 30 year old economics teacher in a...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on December 16, 2002 09:38 PM
TrackBack | Category: China, Conversations, Hostels & Guesthouses, Reading, Restaurants Chinese MysteriesThe Chinese have incredible confidence in themselves...and consider themselves unquestionably the most superior people in the world...mostly due to their long history. We Westerners are the barbarians. (So we don't...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on December 16, 2002 09:22 PM
TrackBack | Category: China, Culture, Funniest Experiences, Language, Travel Tips December 15, 2002What We Miss About HomeI have been asked about this so here it is: After nearly a year, the thing I miss the most about living in the States is EFFICIENCY. Everywhere in the...Read this update December 14, 2002Conversations In The GorgeWednesday Dec 11 In Old Town Lijiang, Bob joined us for breakfast at our hotel at 9am; met Li at her hotel at 10:30 for minibus trip up the...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on December 14, 2002 09:10 PM
TrackBack | Category: China, Climbs & Walks, Conversations, Culture, Excursions, Minority Groups, Politics December 13, 2002Pissing MatchWhen Bob took a box of purchases to the Old Lijiang post office they asked him to take everything out one by one. This had not happened when we...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on December 13, 2002 11:41 PM
TrackBack | Category: Bob's Blogs, China, Worst Experiences December 10, 2002Echo & Li...CompetitorsMonday Dec 9 2002 In Old Town Lijiang, we are woken up by a knock at the hotel door at 8am. Two couples from Taiwan were on their way...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on December 10, 2002 09:04 PM
TrackBack | Category: Altercations, China, Culture, Food, Hostels & Guesthouses, Minority Groups December 09, 2002Naxi Old Town-LijiangLijiang has been designated a World Cultural Heritage Site by the United Nations. There are two kinds of Naxi dwellings built with wood, clay tiles, earth bricks and hard...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on December 9, 2002 09:35 PM
TrackBack | Category: Best Places, China, Culture, UNESCO World Heritage Sites December 08, 2002The Wonderful Naxi PeopleOnce in Lijiang, we dumped our luggage at the Shangira Hotel (Y80 or about $10 for a double) that was recommended by Echo. I suspect she was getting a...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on December 8, 2002 08:43 PM
TrackBack | Category: China, Culture, Food, Hostels & Guesthouses, Restaurants December 07, 2002Tiger Leaping GorgeChina's greatest river, known by Westerners as the Yangtse, is called Jinsha Jiang by the Chinese. It's origin is in Tibet and runs through Tiger Leaping Gorge near Lijiang,...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on December 7, 2002 09:30 PM
TrackBack | Category: Buses, China, Climbs & Walks, Excursions, Yangtse River December 06, 2002Zhondian to BaishuitaiFriday Dec 6 2002 There were no street lights so we walked the equivalent of several blocks to the Zhongdian bus station in the dark to catch the 7:50am...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on December 6, 2002 08:29 PM
TrackBack | Category: Best Places, Buses, China, Climbs & Walks, Conversations, Culture, Minority Groups December 05, 2002Jade Dragon Snow MountainBob took a flight south to Mangshi and then on by bus to Ruili near the Burma border. Jana and I left Kunming on a Yunnan Airlines flight to...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on December 5, 2002 08:16 PM
TrackBack | Category: Best Places, Buses, China, Excursions, Hostels & Guesthouses, Minority Groups, Restaurants December 03, 2002End of the Burma RoadSunday Dec 1-3 2002 Arrived at Kunming from Guilin after 23 hours on the train. We had gained considerable elevation throughout the night. We took a taxi to the...Read this update Posted by laughingnomad on December 3, 2002 08:07 PM
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