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Could You Say ‘No’ to This Man?
Near the top of the chair lift leading some 500 meters up the slope of Dahei from Dali sits a small temple. After making it through some harrowing bus rides unharmed we had the intention of making a small donation thanking the spirits for their kindness. Curiously we peek into the temple and observe the…
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Dali Dinner
We especially recommend the mushrooms, squash and chicken. The local carp from Er lake is delicious but you need to work around the bones. Remember not to use your fingers to get them out of your mouth, spitting them on the ground is much more proper.
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Hard Sleeper
This is Cranky building his middle bunk on the train to Dali. He had just painstakingly explained the numbering system of the hard sleeper beds to an elderly Chinese couple using multiple permutations of all the 27 words in his Mandarin vocabulary. His system analysis stemmed from his experience with two soft sleeper rides and…
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Ping’an Rice Fields
The rice fields are beautiful but the people more so and they are exquisite cooks of rice in charred bamboo hollows and vegetables of all sorts.
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32 Seconds of Moonlight over Ping’an Zhuang
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Kung Fu Wonton
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Country Life
Nothing like getting lost in the rice fields and discovering the simple beauties of the Yulong river valley.
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Fúlì – Where Fans are made
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Yin & Yang in Yángshuò
The charms of Yángshuò are very accessible, the river Li flowing through karst towers, temples strewn about, the China of our imagination. There are as many electric scooters as forward looking cities elsewhere would dream to have, restaurant scraps are collected for composting, the people are friendly and the vegetation lush. There is a…
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Which way to Guilin?