Tuesday, April 22, 2014 An easy drive through the mountains. Started off back-tracking down the beautiful toll road before heading up a new valley to Tiger Leaping Gorge on the Yangtze River. It is also essential part of the UNESCO…
Sunday, April 20, 2014 25kms (15 miles) North of Dàlǐ is the old town of Xizhōu with its Bai architecture. We pulled off the highway to check it out, only to find they wanted ¥60 (USD $10) per person to visit. We…
Saturday, April 19, 2014 Today we headed to Dàlǐ, which was 280kms (174 miles) north. Although the road continued to wind through mountains valleys but was remarkable fast. There are bridges over the valleys and long tunnels through the mountain.…
Friday, April 18, 2014 Up very early, well very early for us (6:15am). We scoffed down breakfast, checked out and were ready to join the others by 7:30am. Still quite early actually, for us. It was 418km (260m) of lovely…
Thursday, April 17, 2014 We both slept like logs. The last two days had been extremely exhausting and draining. And just as well, as we had a huge day. Our hotel was located about 2kms from the customs checkpoint. At…
Yes we made it successfully. We are having a few issues updating the blog (due to the great fire-wall of China) and getting connected. Just wanted to let everyone know we made it. More details on Sterlin to follow.
