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201104 Minas and Catherine's Hiking and Biking in Xishuangbanna |
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Minas and Catherine were an active couple from Canada, they spent several months every year to travel around the world, liked hiking and biking, last year, they even did biking for one month around Europe. For this tour Minas and Catherine flew respectively from Nepal and Canada to Hong Kong to meet each other, then continued flight to Kunming, finally Xishuangbanna, right before this, Minas just finished a tough hiking on the Himalayas....Really tough! |
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Apr. 08, 2011 - Apr. 11, 2011 |
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| Relaxing rafting along the Mekong | Visit to a traditional rice whisky distillation workshop | |
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| Taking photos of the whisky production | Rice whisky was coming out of the steamer | |
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| We watched Dai villager let off traditional fireworks | On a lively countryside market | |
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| Taking a mountain taxi up mountain to trail head | Hiking over mountains to Aini ethnic village | |
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| We met with some Bulang people on the way | Arrival at an Aini ethnic village, where for stay | |
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| Family dinner was done, looking very inviting | Simple breakfast on balcony of villager's traditional house | |
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| In an Ake ethnic village, showing pics to an old lady | Lovely Ake kid was so good when being our photo model | |
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| She's so cute, we took quite many pictures of her | Grandmother worked also very well as our model | |
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| We visited a village primary school, kids behaved so well | Biking across border ethnic region, relaxing descent | |
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| Hiking up mountains, across villagers' tea plantation | Hiking across rainforest, refreshing and cool air | |
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| Nice wild flowers in the jungle | We had a visit to tropical botanical garden, very quiet | |
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| Nice view in tropical botanical garden | Beautiful flower in botanical garden |
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RELATED TOUR.....to be customized. |