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luqu | this is why I\'m not a landscape photographer. I simply could not do justice to the breathtaking vastness |
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luqu to langmusi | on the road, no busses to be had to zoige that day, so we settled for south to langmusi. in and out, just enough time for alex to shop for knives (again) and eat a yak burger. still no busses, hard bargained for a taxi to zoige. |
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langmusi to songpan | no pics of zoige, though the waterless hotel that locked us in deserved a shot. snuck onto a 6am bus for songpan the next morning |
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songpan | horseback riding gone awry, mountain races and card tricks |
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songpan to chengdu | another psychotically early morning bus, delivering us into the melting noon heat of chengdu summer |
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chengdu to ??? | yeah, I\'m not exactly sure where we stopped on this one. it should have taken six hours to get to kanding. it took two days...day one : stopped for rockslide. overnighted in what turned out to be a fantastic little city |
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??? to kanding | Day two : stuck on the road all afternoon while they plowed the massive landslide into the new road |
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kanding | first true forray into the amdo mountain region |
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litang | 4800 meters above sea level |
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daocheng | possibly also known as sumdo. good views, great mushrooms, excellent company. completely useless bus station lady. |
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zhongdian | currently renamed Shangrila. Based on the book, ignoring the original geography (middle of nowhere kham tibet). Reminiscent of Lijiang when it just started to get touristy |
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lijiang | revisited. pretty much the same as in 2003. restaraunt row, shops abound, though my favorite little back alley has been rezoned hard core commercial. |
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dali | revisited. completely different. old town is almost entirely new. fortunately, my favorite hotel\'s still there, though it\'s tripled in price. |
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kunming | just passing through. provincial museum\'s worth seeing |
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yangshuo | spectacular food, a night of cormorant fishing, old friends and new, a walk to get lost, a motorcycle ride back, a boat ride in the scenic zone, and a plethora of adult beverages |
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