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Backpacking in Yunnan
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Backpacking in Yunnan with Gideon, Julia, and Patty. We trekked through the Nu Jiang Valley and visited many villages and minority groups.
Videos: #1 Cliff Driving · #2 Dangerous Bridge · #3 Swinging Across · #4 Tibetan Catholic Singing
 We stayed at the Mu Inn in Old Town Lijiang the first night we arrived
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 Locals washing their vegetables in a gutter
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 Nu Jiang’s first bend 怒江第一弯
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 Yunnan is covered with beautiful rice terraces
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 One of many bridges crossing the Nu Jiang
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 Four brave and adventurous backpackers!
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 Gideon showing off his muscles
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 Cables strung between the two sides, used by locals for easy transit, eek!
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 Julia crossing a wooden bridge that is rotting and about to fall apart!
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 A scary view from the bottom of the bridge!
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 More rice terraces, some were literally at 45 degree angle!
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 The guy on the right is our driver, he’s Tibetan minority.
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 The type of restaurants we ate at throughout the whole trip, of which, this was one of the better cleaner ones.
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 Playing Big Old Two after lunch
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 Cute school children that waved at us as we drove by
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 Very graphic sign that warns of any vandalizing to the electric lines
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 The first and only touristy sign we saw throughout the whole trip
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 These are the places we went to… hardly any tourists around
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 Little town called Bing Zhong Luo, close to the end of the Nu Jiang route, 2nd to last town before you cross to Tibet
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 Simple farm villages
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 We stayed at Grandma Ding’s house for a night. Very nice Tibetan lady who welcomes backpackers!
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 That’s Grandma Ding showing us her humble home
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 Catholic church across from Grandma Ding’s house… a little out of place for being in the boondocks of Yunnan where people lived as if they were in the 1900s
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 Front view of the catholic church. Chatting with Grandma Ding and listening to her share about her life
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 Playing Settlers of Catan
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 Met two backpackers from Israel at Grandma Ding’s house. Grandma Ding cooked dinner for us.
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 Grandma Ding’s pig and goats
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 Grandma making Tibetan pancake and breakfast for us
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 Eating Tibetan style breakfast – yak buttermilk tea and pancake
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 Taking a hike around the village
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 Going up a steep path, very tiring
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 Julia climbing up a wooden log ladder
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 Gideon sitting and resting at somebody’s home
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 Local villager taking the animals for a walk
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 Gideon and his angels
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 Picture with our driver and Grandma Ding
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 Interesting sticker on the back of somebody’s van
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 Another church on top of a very remote village in the mountains (after 3 hours of drive in the rugged unpaved path)
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 Susan and Julia peeping through the window
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 This little girl followed and watched us the whole time we were there
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 One of the food stops we made, they served our fried rice in this bucket. Without bowls and chopsticks, we weren’t sure how to eat it…
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 Nu Jiang means angry river
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