Last night in lijiang was spent eating Korean BBQ washed down with cold beer and shopping with my Brazilian friend who was of to yangshuo rock climbing( jealous ) .i jumped the train to Dali a stop 3 hours away and half way to kunming and my flight.i had been told its a very beautiful Chinese town with many attractions for travellers .however on arriving at my guesthouse with its massive sunny courtyard with reclining chillout chairs 40 inch tv with English chann...

Arrived in lijiang after a hard week of constant travelling and hiking and cold and hard beds .so when I realised how chilled and ethnic touristy traveller type of town I was happy .lots of cool bars and chilled places to hangout and weirdly at night there's a street like Chinese Ibiza were the locals party hard.and an amazing food street had some spicy yak and crispy baby duck heads which were delicious and crunchy because of the bones which are eaten as well.le...

Started out early and with the rain over the last three days and any lack of clean clothes decided to take the less dangerous low path . Which still meant traversing a major landslide that had taken out the road.after a couple hours of walking in the rain decided to stay at the local village for the night and found a guesthouse with amazing views , cold beer and good food. Guesthouse is amazing with the gorge towering above you and the wood burning stove and the ...

After arriving in shangrila I check in to another guest house with no laundry facilities ( I ran out of clean clothes three days ago) and no hot water,which sucks as its freezing in shangrila .have a massive banquet of 6 different dishes at a local restaurant with an Israeli dude a Chinese girl and a Brazilian girl,with beer comes to £2.50 .make a plan to leave in the morning with the Brazilian girl for tiger leaping gorge to do a two day hike of the mountain va...

After an hour of waiting the bus picks me up and meet my travel companions six large leathery looking Tibetan dudes who spend the first half of the journey hitting and slapping each other.and i understand why china sent so many military as the tibetan dudes are strong and very leathery.the scenery is epic mountain passes low valleys and Tibetan monasteries and pray flags at each corner .after about 3 hours the interest turns to me and with no Tibetan the conversa...