🇨🇳 Yunnan with family
I visited Yunnan (云南) with my family, and it was pretty cold and pretty nice. This is practically my first time in China, and it was pretty incredible. Great country.
Because I was with family, it wasn't a very adventurous trip, save for me trying to get by with my poor mandarin skills, but the nature was quite breathtaking. I'd sure like to revisit the other parts of China some other time.
Dali 大理
Dali is a nice place to chill. There's a lot of activity on the western coast of Erhai, which is a humongous lake and the activity center of Dali.
Erhai is great and all, but it's absolutely huge and getting around it takes a long time.
I really loved the three-course tea, which is a tradition of the Bai people. The cheese tea especially.
Lijiang 丽江
Lijiang is really cool! We visited a lot of nature spots in this leg of the trip.
Jade Dragon Snow Mountain 玉龙雪山
Our first morning in Lijiang, we set off early in the morning to get to Yulong (Jade Dragon) snow mountain. It was about an hour's drive away and as we approached, the temperature grew steadily colder.
Shangri-La
At this point in time, I was absolutely freezing.