Our
perfect ridge campsite was a bit of a mission to get down from. Chris
walked through a web by accident and a massive yellow spider landed on
his face. The road ran through the farmland downstream.
Having
bought provisions from a fantastic market in the town of Yangbi we
looked for somewhere to sit and eat. In the end the only place off the
road we could find was an empty driving school test track. We sat on the
examiners bench and ate our picnic watching the learner drivers
practice on the tarmac course down the hill.
After
lunch we turned onto a hideous main road which as well as being
unexpectedly steep uphill was busy with trucks keen to avoid the freeway
toll and road works. After arriving in New Dali we had to travel 15km
back north to Ancient Dali (the nice bit). I ran out of energy on the
way and had to eat a packet of Oreos to re-fuel. We checked into the
Jade Emu hostel which is awesome and had free DVD rental and players in
the room. After a massive scran-out in the restaurant we watched a DVD
and BBC news for the first time since leaving the UK.
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