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Unexpected Couchsurfing Experience #2
by Tsemer on Feb.12, 2010, under China
Our flight company was called “Lucky Air“. This could not have been a good sign. And indeed, the bus complied with the flight company’s name and was excruciatingly slow.
We could clearly see old ladies pushing wheelchairs faster than our bus.
It left at 09:30 instead of 09:10, and we didn’t like that the clock in the bus was 20 minutes early. Hmm.. Was our bus in the time zone GMT+8:20?
Discovering Old Dali
by Cinnie on Feb.03, 2010, under China
From the first time we laid eyes on The Lily Pad Inn we were in love.. This must be the most lovely guesthouse we’ve ever stayed in! The staff, especially Melody (Original name: Shǎo Huā, which translates to Little Flower, which she is), is super friendly and our room is wonderful and light. It even has a corridor! In the room! We knew we were gonna like it here immediately.
When it was time to have some dinner, Alex brought her dorm-buddy Minu – a very handsome Korean guy (according to the man himself) – and the four of us went out. We found a tiny local restaurant where we spent the evening eating wonderful local food for basically no money at all. China is great!
Unexpected Couchsurfing Experience
by Cinnie on Feb.02, 2010, under China
So.. the plan was to catch a bus in Kunming and go directly to Dali. The only thing we’d have liked to do before was buy ourselves some tickets for a train ride 10 days later to Xi’an. We thought it to be a bit early, but because of the spring festival madness we were advised to be as early as possible. We found the train ticket office quite easily and after being re-directed about four times we seemed to have found the right line to be standing in. It took about an hour before we finally got to the ticket window where we got the great news that all the tickets for the coming 10 days were already sold out. What?! Sold out?! Yep. Guess so.. The only thing the ticket guy could sell us was a seating ticket, which somehow seemed not too attractive for a 36 hour train ride. We decided not to get down by this (and hoped for possible train tickets in Dali) and went looking for the bus station that would have rides to Dali.
