<!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> 12 August: Dali Today wasn't the most active of days, we rose just after 08h30, heading to the lady selling spicy noodles at the South gate. Unfortunately she wasn't there this morning so we walked down further to a restaurant selling steamed wontons, very nice. Afterwards we shared a noodle soup, a lot better than others due to less pork fat and a lot of garlic on the table :-). ...

<!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> 11 August: Dali It had been raining the whole of last night and continued when we woke up. We wanted to take a bus to the next town and then a ferry to Dali old town, but first we wanted breakfast. We headed back to the restaurant we had eaten the previous evening for more of the same. Afterwards we got our bags and tried to find out when the bus would come. Unfortunately there was no ...

<!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> 10 August: Wase Village Today was a super day, extremely exhausting, yet indescribable at the same time. Key words to describe it includes gravel roads and mountain passes! The morning started by rising early and heading to the morning market, this time the correct one. The market was filled with colourful fruits and vegetables, huge melons, purple aubergine, red chillies! We sat down ...

<!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> 9 August: Xizhou Village We woke up early, ready to go on our cycling tour. We headed down to reception where we asked where we could store our bags, since we would be gone for two days, before returning. (We had organized it yesterday with a woman that could speak a bit of english). They showed us a spot behind the reception counter, next to the computer where they sat. Not really ha...

<!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> 8 August: Dali We had planned to leave early and the alarm had been set for 06h00, but for some or other reason neither Leanne nor myself could get much sleep. There was no noise to blame nor inquisitive neighbors, still we would fall asleep only to wake up a little later, this happened repeatedly during the night. By 06h00, we decided to sleep in a little longer, we woke at 07h30 and...