Trip to Shandong I booked onto a 3 day Chinese tour to Shandong during the National Day holiday. One of my students offered to accompany me and it soon grew by three more. We met the bus and headed off at 8pm collecting a few more additional passengers at several non descript locations in other […]
Last Weekend Soon after my return to China my TV stopped working. We had never actually turned it on but the channel indicator on a connected machine disappeared and couldn’t be made to return. No visible results occurred after weeks of discussions with management. On Friday evening I returned from class to find a note […]
The Kindness of Strangers and another Scam I was the only non Chinese speaking foreigner in the 9 seater minivan to Lugu Lake. It was an interminably long trip involving several stops for photos/calls of nature/lunch/tourist opportunities, one of which I wrote about previously. Photo opportunities I understand as I do calls of nature as […]
Lugu Lake I spent 3 days at Lugu Lake which is a couple of hundred kilometres north of Lijiang. Look for the purple lines north of Lijiang, in the north. The green line from Lijiang shows my current position, Dali. When we reached Lake Lugu from Lijiang the minibus driver stopped at the lakeside […]
Planes, Trains and Automobiles Map of China showing my route so far. Train from Xingtai in Hebei to Kunming in Yunnan (35 hours), bus to Jinhong (9 hours) and plane to Lijang (50 minutes + 60 minutes delay.) Map of Yunnan showing major cities I have visited to date, Kunming, Jinghong and Lijiang. Map of […]