Traveling Adventures

After seeing Gordon off in Dali, we headed to Li Jian on another 3 hour trek. The bus ride itself was quite interesting. We ended up winding up the mountain than down the valley and 3 hours later and many sketchy maneuvers by the bus driver itself we landed in one of Li Jian’s bus stations. Somewhere along the trip, my ipod lost the number of the hostel we had planned to stay at. Luckily, Janahlee was able to recommend another hostel on a very short notice. K2 (the hostel we ended up staying at) turned out to be in Su He, a city very close to Li Jian, and in my opinion an even better city than Li Jian itself. By the time we got to K2, we were hungry and tired and my butt was particularly sore from all that jostling in the bus (I ended up in the very back of the bus dead center, where if the bus stopped abruptly  I’d surely have went straight through the van). So once we dropped off our stuff, we went off in search of food. We came across this restaurant called little paris that was selling 16 yuan spaghetti, and thought: “hey! A not expensive western restaurant. SWEET!” went in and promptly found out that the 16 yuan spaghetti was in fact the only thing that didn’t cost an arm and a leg on the item. The prices were on par with european prices!!!! But since we were still very hungry and tired we decided might as well just try their stuff. Brit got a sandwich, Yao got some fried rice and I got the cheap spaghetti. Unfortunately for us, the food was super super salted, in fact it was pretty much inedible in terms of how horrific it turned out to be. 

Despite our poor choice of lunch venues, our Su He experience was in fact quite nice. The most memorable thing about the town was the streams/rivers that run through that town. It was very very clear and not only that, people put beers/yogurts into the stream to cool it down instead putting it into fridges. There was a lot of places selling knick knacks but it still maintained an air of old town charm, and you didn’t feel like people were trying to rip you off around every corner. In fact I was able to get some really nice earrings and bracelet there. The next day, we headed off to Tiger Leaping Gorge.

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