hello again, i'm now right in the south of yunnan on my way to laos and it really feels like i've already left china. this place is boiling hot, which makes a change from the constant rain in kunming, the roads are lined with palm trees and, i know it sounds funny but, i can smell south east asia! it's not a bad smell, well not always, i think it just all this heat and humidity. i haven't really done much in jinghong just walked around the city for a wh...

hey guys, kunming has been a bit of a blur!!! after chilling out in lijiang and dali i was ready to get back to a bit of drinking. i didn't do to bad in kunming! i got absolutley wrecked for 6 days straight! even the first night i met some really cool people at the guest house and we played pool and table tennis for ages. i've just discovered that i'm rubbish at table tennis! a few of us went out for drinks to a pub close by. the pub was pretty coo...

a few days in dali, i left lijiang on the 6th to go to dali city. the stunning scenery on the bus rides seems to have faded away since leaving sichuan, it's now just really nice! on the bus i met 2 chek girls, one of 31 and the other just about to finish uni, the girls had been to dali before so when we arrived at dali they took me under their wing and showed me to the guest house they stayed at before. very cheep, 10 kwai for a dorm bed! the staff ar...

hello again, that damn alarm clock went off at 5:30 this morning! after getting to sleep quite late, due to me sleeping on top of a night club, i could have thrown the alarm clock out the window and very happily gone straight back to sleep, but i had a bus to catch. i was put on the first row of the bus, this means a dead ass after about 20 minutes and 12 hours of not being able to stretch my legs. sat next to me was a very tired monk. the bus filled up a...

hi again, at 2 i went to the bus station in litang, i was expecting a bus but before i knew it i was bundled into a little sandwhich van they call a taxi with tibetans. again these people are so friendly, one even bought me a bottle of peach milkshake. the ride was beautiful. at times it felt like you were driving across the roof top of the world with mountains stretching out into the distance and little rivers running through some of the most amazing scener...