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
Another day of driving through the glorious countryside of Yunnan Province with steep hillsides covered in impenetrable jungle with a wide variety of trees and shrubs. Plenty of bamboo trees … Read more
We continued to drive through the glorious countryside of Yunnan Province towards Mohan on the border with Laos. The road passed tea plantations on the terraced hillsides and through huge … Read more
In the morning we drove to the small town of Xindhe to change my brakes. The rear brakes were well-worn but the front ones werent too bad. The road to … Read more
Driving south through Yunnan Province, the landscape became almost sub-tropical with densely forested mountains with terraces of maize and rice and plantations of bananas and other fruits. A long drive … Read more
]We took the motorway through a weird landscape of conical hills which are similar to the stone forest but where the surrounding soft rock has not yet been worn away … Read more
In the morning, Jim and I went to see the Golden Temple, but weren’t too sure where to go because it was early in the morning and there were no … Read more