After leaving Varanasi, we headed to Delhi for a few days before turning north toward Rishikesh. Since we came back to Delhi after Rishikesh, and we didn’t do a lot because I was sick with some sort of food or water poisoning during the first stay in Delhi, I will just sum up Delhi in […]Read Post ›
Varanasi was probably our favorite town in India. We arrived in the morning after a reasonably comfortable ride on the night train from Kolkata, and had some time to kill before we could check into our room at Stops Hostel. The nearby Kerala Cafe was recommended by the hostel staff, so we headed over for […]Read Post ›
Kolkata was our first stop in India, the last country we will visit on this trip. It was a harsh introduction to a harsh country to travel in, but we were grateful for the experience nonetheless. We arrived at nearly midnight from China and found the driver we had arranged ahead of time to take […]Read Post ›
Our last stop in China was Chengdu, the capital of the Sichuan province. We decided to take a few extra days here to rest up before moving along to India, so we found a cheap but relatively comfortable private room at Mix hostel to recharge. We arrived late in the evening after a very long […]Read Post ›
After exploring the western Yunnan province, we were left with about 10 days to fill in China. We had heard from some other travellers about a bus route through the Tibetan areas of the western Sichuan province, which intrigued us. We had originally wanted to try to check out Tibet, but with the severe travel […]Read Post ›
After our hike, we spent a few days recovering in Shangri-La, the edge of the Tibetan frontier in the Yunnan province. We stayed at Tavern 47, a highly rated hostel in town, and got a damp private room in a noisy wooden building. While it was less than ideal, we did get a warm bed […]Read Post ›
A few hours after getting on the bus in Lijiang, we were dropped off at the road that leads to the Tiger Leaping Gorge high trail. Our bags were conveniently brought to the end of the trail, so we set off with our day packs stuffed with food, water, and warm clothes. We had to […]Read Post ›
Lijiang was meant to be a short stop for us before we started our hike in the Tiger Leaping Gorge, but I caught a cold in Dali and needed to heal up before starting the hike. Luckily we found the perfect place to get some rest, the October Inn, just north of old town Lijiang. […]Read Post ›
Dali was a relaxing town in Yunnan about a 5 hour train ride from Kunming. The train was the smoothest and fastest train we have been on in our time in Asia so far, and got us to our destination several hours before we thought we would arrive. We had nice people in our train […]Read Post ›
We started our adventure in China in the Yunnan province, in southern China. We didn’t really know where to begin in such a large country, and Kunming was the biggest city near-ish to where we were in Thailand, so we figured, what the hey, let’s give it a try. We chose it before doing much […]Read Post ›
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