我回来了！

I am now back in Beijing after about 6 weeks on the road, and it is actually good to be back (of course if the weather weren't so mild, 15C, I might not be saying that). Of course, I have weeks worth of stories to share, and I plan to slowly post them. Below is a (very) brief outline of my trip, so you know where I was and when. Memory is often not linear and connections never are, so my blog posts may jump around a bit. Refer to the timeline or send me an angry email when confused.

Cheers!

PS. I will slowly be posting pictures, but that will be haphazard as well, as my camera had some problems during the trip, so I'll have to steal a bunch from Camille and Zi.

1/19-20: train from Beijing to Changsha, Hunan

1/20-23: stay with Camille in Changsha

1/23-24: overnight train to Guilin, Guangxi

1/24: Guilin

1/25-28: Yangshuo, Guangxi

1/28-30: Nanning, Guangxi

1/30-2/1: Ningming, Guangxi and surrounding area

2/1-2: back in Nanning

2/2 - 5: Beihai, Guangxi, visiting a student of mine

2/5: back in Nanning (again!) for a few hours, plane to Kunming

2/5-7: Kunming, Yunnan (Zi arrives)

2/7-8: overnight bus to Lijiang, Yunnan

2/8: Lijiang

2/9-10: hike in Tiger Leaping Gorge (near Lijiang)

2/11: Camille and I take a bus to Dali, Yunnan; Zi goes back to Beijing

2/11-13: Dali

2/13-14: overnight bus to Jinghong, capital of Xishuangbanna prefecture (still in Yunnan)

2/14-15: Jinghong

2/16-18: trek in Xishuangbanna

2/19: bus to Menghai

2/20: bus to Xiding

2/21: Xiding market, back to Jinghong

2/22 - 23: overnight bus back to Kunming; Camille flies back to Changsha on 23

2/23-25: Kunming; night flight back to Beijing