Gallery
/
06-06 China
Cycle-touring around Sichuan and Yunnan provinces in SW China
Our latest photos are in the
South Island gallery
Hong Kong in the clag
Kunming
Kunming
Our first ride--Xiaguan to Dali on the muddiest road of the trip
Arriving in Dali
Dali
Dali city walls
IMGP0696
Whole small loaches in my soup!
Temple above Dali
IMGP0703
The Cloudy Tourist Road -- 11km just like this
Fried bread stuffed with plum jam
IMGP0709
IMGP0710
IMGP0712
IMGP0714
Riding round (lake) Erhai Hu
IMGP0721
IMGP0722
Wase on Erhai Hu
IMGP0728
IMGP0729
Chilli at Wase Market
IMGP0734
IMGP0735
IMGP0736
Catching small bony fish and shrimps to dry and make soup with
IMGP0741
Green tea!
Frogs, snails, giant mussels, buckets of fish in a cafe
Fish-head soup
Pannier repairs
Some nice pagodas that have just been built (and a much smaller older one)
Riding to Lijiang
IMGP0755
IMGP0759
IMGP0761
Lijiang Old Town
IMGP0769
Another deserted motorway (you can only see one lane)
IMGP0778
Yaks! and a fake waterfall
Camping in the woods high above the Yangtze
Jade Snow Dragon Mountain
IMGP0786
Ferry across the Yangtze (at Daju)
IMGP0791
Big descent and ascent to push bikes up
IMGP0796
IMGP0797
Riding towards Tiger Leaping Gorge
Tiger Leaping Gorge
Tiger Leaping Gorge. It doesn't really go
Tiger Leaping Gorge
Cat and bird cage
Tiger Leaping Gorge
Tiger Leaping Gorge (high path)
Tiger Leaping Gorge
Tiger Leaping Gorge
Trekking high above Tiger Leaping Gorge
IMGP0812
Our high point (3800m), 1700m ascent
IMGP0819
IMGP0821
IMGP0823
Tiger Leaping Gorge middle rapids don't really go either
Riding away from Tiger Leaping Gorge
Hil and mangy dog
1000m ascent to Haba
Haba
IMGP0848
IMGP0849
IMGP0850
IMGP0851
IMGP0853
IMGP0854
Bita Hua
There wasn't a hotel so we stayed with the boat man
The Bita Hua boat man
and the horse man
IMGP0862
IMGP0865
Trekking above Deqin
IMGP0872
IMGP0873
Minya Kolka
High point of the trip -- 4550m top near Deqin
Wild camping again
Sumptseling Gompa
Horses in a seasonal lake
Grain-drying racks near Zhongdian
Near Zhongdian
IMGP0896
IMGP0901
Hoge descent back to the Yangtze
IMGP0904
Yangtze
Stupa
This doesn't really go either
IMGP0910
IMGP0911
IMGP0912
IMGP0913
Fishing in Yangtze trib
IMGP0918
Shigu -- the first bend of the Yangtze apparently
Chess back in Lijiang
IMGP0930
and back down the the Yangtze again
IMGP0934
Bee maggots for sale in Ninglang
Locals (Yi) in local dress
and academic dress
IMGP0942
IMGP0944
IMGP0946
Mosu family (there were no hotels again), Pork fat for tea again!
Lugu Hua
IMGP0954
Fishing boat on Lugu Hua
Tourist boats on Lugu Hua
IMGP0962
IMGP0963
IMGP0964
IMGP0968
We failed to climb this hill the next day
More menu-reading successes
Street BBQ in Kanding
Gonga Shan (7500m) again
Gonga Shan (in the distance) from the hill above Kanding
Incredibly steep river near Kanding
IMGP0984
Small children playing with firecrackers
Another random house. Chilli lard potatoes for tea
The family
Riding up the Doda river
IMGP0996
Cheating
Big landslide-rapids on a Doda trib
Cold bean jelly, tagliatelli noodle soup, green tea and aubegine
Hil gave up and packed her bike up to take on the bus
JinXiang
IMGP1007
Village near Kanding
Siguniang Shan
Siguniang Shan from Balang Shan La
Balang Shan La
Yaks
Summit of Balangshanla -- 4487m on the map but only 4260m on the GPS
IMGP1020
Yak -- it was drizzling on the other side of the pass
Panda Valley near Wolong, after a huge descent
Pandas at the breeding centre at Woling
IMGP1030
IMGP1032
Panda nursery
IMGP1037
Chengdu
Another pagoda in a monestary in Chengdu
IMGP1048
Mount Emei Shan -- three days of stone staircases
A Monkey
IMGP1053
IMGP1057
The biggest stone Buddah in the world (courtesy of the Taliban)
Buddah at Leshan
Tea house in Chengdu
Hot Pot in Chengdu
You get all sorts of fish (still flapping), meat and veg to cook in a pot of boiling chilli stock
170
Images |
Home
| Generated by
JAlbum 6.5
and based on
Chamelion
skin