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Sun City Resort
A Giant Panda eating his bamboo
Sugar ArtThe 13 and a half hour Traffic Jam (Pt1)
Not sure I'd exactly recommend this experience, but one certainly tells it often. You see, many years ago, I'd seen a TV series called 'Beyond the Clouds', which was set in the beautiful mountain city of Lijiang. And I remembered seeing this small bus puttering along mountain roads on the way there, and had always seen myself repeating this experience, taking in the magnificent mountainous borderlands of Sichuan and Yunnan. So as our next destination was Lijiang, it was decided that we'd eschew the comfort of flying to Lijiang via Kunming, instead taking the more adventurous overland route - first by overnight train to Panzhihua, thence by means of that little puttering type bus, on across the mountains to our destination. Well that was the PLAN!
Our train (on which we only got hard sleepers), was spiffier than expected - carpet on the passageway and floral valances on the berths! The carpet was a good protection against the ubiquitous Chinese throat clearer. Got quite a good night sleep, and 14 hours later at 10am were exiting the station at Panzhihua, on the lookout for a bus to Lijiang.
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