Across the Mountains to Anshun
Day 111 of Asia 2019 trip / Day 13 in China

A very spicy duck 'dry pot'
Off to Anshun, where a delicious duck “dry pot” awaits us. We see more Guizhou scenary along the way.
Day 111 of Asia 2019 trip / Day 13 in China
Off to Anshun, where a delicious duck “dry pot” awaits us. We see more Guizhou scenary along the way.
Day 110 of Asia 2019 trip / Day 12 in China
Finally, we were off to see the two natural beauties that drove us to stop at Xingyi in the first place - Wanfenglin and Nading stone forest.
Day 109 of Asia 2019 trip / Day 11 in China
Had a lazy day today in Xingyi, Guizhou Province but we had a good dinner.
Day 108 of Asia 2019 trip / Day 10 in China
Xingyi (興義). It’s a tier 4 city. I had asked a couple of Chinese people I knew back home about it and neither had heard of it. There was barely any information about the city online. Hop on to Wikipedia and there’s about 4 lines of text about it. Guizhou province on the whole was completely unknown to us during our pre-holiday research and we had both thought we would simply breeze past it to get to Zhangjiajie. I was told that Guizhou was the home of Maotai, which seemed to be the only remarkable thing to note about the province, which was one of the poorest in the country. And now I know it’s also the birthplace of Lao Gan Ma, the famous chilli oil.
Day 107 of Asia 2019 trip / Day 9 in China
So we were finally going to leave Kunming today. We’ve been here long enough! Except…
Day 106 of Asia 2019 trip / Day 8 in China
Another leisurely day in Kunming where we visited ONE site and ate food :\
Day 105 of Asia 2019 trip / Day 7 in China
It was a leisurely day today. Didn’t do a whole lot except walk around Green lake, ate Dairy Queen and had a surprisingly beefy noodle soup.
Day 104 of Asia 2019 trip / Day 6 in China
Kunming (昆明) is the capital of Yunnan province and naturally we had to head that way to get out of the province. We decided not to stop in the popular Dali (大理) because it didn’t interest us that much. It didn’t seem like there was much to see apart from the famous Three Pagodas.
Day 103 of Asia 2019 trip / Day 5 in China
Whoo hoo! A could tick off Tiger Leaping Gorge off his bucket list! Our plan for TLG had gone without a hitch and most importantly, there was no rain. Now, having bought our bus ticket back to Lijiang from Tibet guesthouse the night before, it was time to say good bye to this great wonder.
Day 102 of Asia 2019 trip / Day 4 in China
Day 2 on the Tiger Leaping Gorge trail and our bodies were still kinda tired from the previous day.