

Dali, China
By the time we got to Kunming it was dark. Rick, the manager of the apartment in which we were staying, drove us to our new accomodation. The car journey gave us our first taste of modern China - skyscrapers, building developments and hundreds of neon signs. The city looked incredibly futuristic. Gone were the tuktuks and motorbikes of Cambodia and Vietnam. Replacing them were nice cars and electric mopeds that made little more than a quiet hum. We had to take th...