We know we are high since we are feeling pressure on our temples and Prue is suffering the occasional low blood pressure blackout when standing. I seem to have a weak yet persistent nose bleed, believe me when I say that it is worth it!! You can see the clearing of the mountain pass up ahead and suddenly you have passed a 'welcome to' note scrawled on the roadside, goodbye Yunnan and hello Sichuan. But nothing has prepared me for the final descent where untouche...

So it is regarded as Southern Chinas mostrevered monasteries, the largest in Yunnanand is 85 Yuan to visit. Excitement for the 1618 built Zhongdian highlight dims slightly while cueing in the rammed ticket office, which is a huge palace sized money launderer in itself. As I disembark the tourist bus my first endeavour is to avoid the crowds. Like a mob a chinese tour group will storm the main attraction so opting to walk away from the walled grounds and complete ...

You wouldn't think that one could talk about the same journey for a third time, but here I go. Its all about the feed before the journey, we've slowly learnt to have a good fill of the chinese favourite dish of tomato and egg with bread if we can find it, and rice if we can't. We then also order some fried rice to take with just in case. We can then contently bid farewell to our recent home before walking a mere 100m and begin sticking out those all important th...

You wouldn't think that one could talk about the same journey for a third time, but here I go. Its all about the feed before the journey, we've slowly learnt to have a good fill of the chinese favourite dish of tomato and egg with bread if we can find it, and rice if we can't. We then also order some fried rice to take with just in case. We can then contently bid farewell to our recent home before walking a mere 100m and begin sticking out those all important th...

You wouldn't think that one could talk about the same journey for a third time, but here I go. Its all about the feed before the journey, we've slowly learnt to have a good fill of the chinese favourite dish of tomato and egg with bread if we can find it, and rice if we can't. We then also order some fried rice to take with just in case. We can then contently bid farewell to our recent home before walking a mere 100m and begin sticking out those all important th...