Yet another boring day in Kunming! It was raining! MC had decided that he was going to find a cafe to sit down and do his business case. HJ and I were still contemplating where we wanted to go. After buying our train tickets to Guilin and depositing our heavy luggages at the train station,…

A day of rest in Lijiang After the many days of exhaustion, excretion and travelling, all 3 of us finally decided that we should rest for 1 day in Lijiang. We hung around in Lijiang, did some shopping, did our business cases in a internet bar nearby and just waited for our night bus ride…

Leaping Tiger Gorge 虎跳峡 – Merry Chirstmas! The final day of our Shangrila trip. My tummy was still in a bad state. MC and HJ still had tummy ache too. We were going to the Middle Leaping Tiger Gorge (all in all, there were 3 sections, top, middle and bottom). After lunch, which we did…

Travelling and White Horse Snow Mountain 白马雪山 Most of this day was spent travelling. We were going back towards Shangrila and on the way, we reached the place that had the highest altitude of our entire journey – 4292 metres above sea level. The backdrop was the White Horse Snow Mountain. It was beautiful with…

Mei Li Snow Mountain 梅里雪山 After a night of toilet visiting, we were visibly exhausted, but we were also determined to continue the trip and enjoy it as much as we could possibly can. We travelled in our little jeep and listened to very interesting music along the way. There were songs by Xu Wei…

Lijiang 丽江, Leaping Tiger Gorge 虎跳峡, Shangrila 香格里拉, De Qin å¾·é’¦, Mei Li Snow Mountain 梅里雪山 Our trip begins! We joined a 散团 consisting of people from all over, but we were so fortunate, that besides the 3 of us, only 2 other Dong Bei 东北 Girls were on the same trip. Therefore, it was…

Back to Lijiang Travelled back to Lijiang and ate at the horrible place again. I did not eat too much as I was already sick! The bus ride was horrible! I remembered us stopping at some local produce shop and the first thing I asked the store attendant was what was the most sour thing…

Lu Gu Lake 泸沽湖 The journey began in the morning at 0800 hours and we took a 6 hour bus ride to the lake. Along the way, we had our meal for lunch at a local’s house. The backyard tables on which we ate on were covered with flies! We still ate! (This was the…

Dali, I have arrived! After a long and tedious ride on the sleeper bus, we arrived in Dali at around 4 am in the morning. We continued to sleep in the bus until 6 am and headed off from there. As usual, our plan was not to stay at Dali for too long. Get to…

This trip marks the successful completion of the 1 year internship in Shanghai as part of the NUS Overseas Colleges Program. I travelled with very cool buddies, namely Huijing and Min Chuan. For the entire trip, minimal planning was involved. This was also the first time that all of us had went on a backpacking…