DavidJennyTravel

A brand new motorway has been built between Nyingchi and Lhasa alongside the old G318, which is fast and toll-free, but not quite as interesting as the old road. I … Read more

For the second day in a row we passed through a massive forest which was pretty at first but became boring after a while. We passed lots of wild pigs … Read more

After giving the van a good wash, we set off for Bome, and reached Rawu Lake within two hours. Rawu means “five goats” in Tibetan and refers to the second … Read more

A drive of 220 miles through the most incredible landscape took us to Baxoi. We drove out of Markam and turned left on the iconic G318 which runs from Shanghai … Read more

Tensing came for us at 9 am and we set off for Tibet. The road rose gradually through woodland and fields to Deqen where we had dinner and filled the … Read more

Shangrila in the daylight was a million times better than at night time. Green came to our van in the morning and took us to the old city which is … Read more

Like southern and western Yunnan, the landscape consisted of ridges of reddish-brown clay separated by deep gorges with little villages and cultivated terraces. However these ridges were far higher and … Read more

We spent a day in Lijiang and had a short walk round the old city in the morning. Dinner was eaten in a small cafe and it began to rain … Read more

A long day of driving 270 miles up and down increasingly high mountain ridges. The weather got cooler as the altitude increased and the nature of the countryside changed from … Read more

In the morning we visited a garden which has buildings and flowers of all the different minority groups in Yunnan Province. The symbol of the local people (can’t remember their … Read more