I’ve recently returned from an 11-day trip around northern Yunnan, flying into Lijiang and doing a big loop north to Shangri-la, north to Dêqên County, west to Nujiang’s Gongshan County, south to Fugong County, south to Lushui, east to Dali, and finally back north to Lijiang.
I did the general trip you did this time around 2017, was a really memerable experience for sure, especially trying to drive with a ton of pigs / horses / yaks / dogs / god knows what all running wild on the roads....
If you just think about it in asset terms, all those Tibetan villagers in the area are insanely rich with huge houses with high level decro and hundreds of livestocks to their name.
I did manage to see the golden sunrise for a couple minutes.
Really hope to do it again, but given that I'm just starting with small kids now, probably not gonna happen anytime soon.
I would say that unless you are living in near by provinces, the degree of difficulties of going on this trip is pretty high, certainly more managable than in the past, but still quite high.
I did the general trip you did this time around 2017, was a really memerable experience for sure, especially trying to drive with a ton of pigs / horses / yaks / dogs / god knows what all running wild on the roads....
If you just think about it in asset terms, all those Tibetan villagers in the area are insanely rich with huge houses with high level decro and hundreds of livestocks to their name.
I did manage to see the golden sunrise for a couple minutes.
Really hope to do it again, but given that I'm just starting with small kids now, probably not gonna happen anytime soon.
I would say that unless you are living in near by provinces, the degree of difficulties of going on this trip is pretty high, certainly more managable than in the past, but still quite high.
Thank you for a lovely piece.