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This blog follows the travels of the Turberfield family as they drop out of the normal busyness of corporate life to explore the ancient art of Tibetan Thangka, the dusty mountaintop temples of the eastern edge of the Tibetan plateau and travel overland from Singapore to England.

Offering to The Spiritual Guide in a lofty gompa perched above the natural fort of Dongwan valley, weekly trips to Shangri La's unpredictable shower rooms, keeping the cows out of the bins, scaling sacred Mount Shika, haggling for pu-er in the tea markets of Kunming and the nightly wonder of the milky way - possibly as far as it's possible to get from the subway at rush hour....

The main contributors are Michelle (also widely known as "The Boss") and David with bits and pieces from San San and Jon Jon. We hope you enjoy and look forward to your comments.

Sunday, 26 December 2010

Leaving shangri-la

We travelled for 5 hours from Shangri-la to Lijiang. Still in Yunnan. I had the seat next to the driver, who started the journey with chanting. However, when we diverted the journey to stop by the Tiger Leaping Gorge. He started grumbling about the road. I understood his concern as the road was under repair and we were definitely in a bit of danger. Jon was so concerned that he begged us to turn back.

Tiger Leaping Gorge was beautiful. You have thousands of meters of shear mountain cliff amid a few small villages.

Anyway, we did not stayed there, only for lunch! We made a mental note to cone back again.

After lunch, we continued and crossed over to Lijiang. As we leave Diqing prefecture, a little pinch in my heart to leave my new found friends in shangri-la.

The countryside of Lijiang was beautiful, and the ground get greener as we decent. The driver who was happily fed after lunch, took us to the first bay of Yangtze river, the longest river in china. You really have to see it to be wooed by its beauty. What really attract me is the simplicity of country life.

Another hour and we reached our hostel Lijiang old town.




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3 comments:

mark harrison xx said...

why are you leaving shangri la after such a short time? I thought you were going there for 6 months? I dont understand!

27 December 2010 at 13:30
Turberfield Family said...

Hi Mark

Good to hear from you. We are now in Singapore. Firstly to sort out San passport. Then to prepare for our big trip. Shangri-la is wonderful and we plan to go again, however it was getting too cold for us. Plan changes and we are happy about this. Let's speak soon.

27 December 2010 at 17:51
Ayurvedamom said...

hope Jon got over the horrible road. hugs to all of you

27 December 2010 at 23:50

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