Our big trip
A few thoughts and photos from our travels
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Day 122 – Tiger Leaping Gorge
26th December: Lijiang, China On the TV at the breakfast buffet was live news, as opposed to the recording from…
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Day 121 – Naxi life in Lijiang
25th December: Lijiang, China I woke up early with food poisoning. Merry Christmas! After most of the day in the…
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Day 120 – The First Bend on the Yangtze
24th December: Lijiang, China We had a very chilled morning here on Christmas Eve. For lunch, the buffet around the…
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Day 119 – Shangri-La
23rd December: Lijiang, China It got very chilly outside overnight! It was definitely below freezing, although the dryness of the…
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Day 118 – To the plateau of northern Yunnan
22nd December: Kunming, China to Lijiang, China Older train stations in China are a bit more haphazard than the giant…
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Day 117 – A colourful solstice
21st December: Kunming, China When out for morning coffee, I wandered the nearest fancy shopping centre where Christmas songs were…
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Day 116 – The food and music of Yunnan
20th December: Kunming, China I had another planning morning (and evening) with lots of permutations at play for our next…
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Day 115 – The City of Eternal Spring
19th December: Kunming, China Yunnan is our final province in China and probably the one we’ve looked forward to most.…
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Day 114 – The final province
18th December: Yangshuo, China to Kunming, China I had my final stroll around Yangshuo, drinking my usual cheap but delicious…
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Day 113 – A view worth more than 20 Yuan
17th December: Yangshuo, China Kaja woke up feeling really ill today, so we changed our plans a little once more.…