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Arrived in Shangri-La and the temperature was cold but I thought it was going to be much colder, felt like a cold autumns day like back home, the sun was out but the wind was cold.
Took a while to find the hostel but located it eventually with help from the locals. The city looked quite traditional with cobble like paths and local people dressed in traditional dress. Was a lot quiet to the cities I have visited in China, which was nice. A lot calmer and quiet and people just going about with their daily business. It's nice to be out of the big cities for a while.
Met a few people at the hostel had dinner with them and watched locals dancing a traditional Tibet dance, I even got involved but my co-ordination was all over the place so after half an hour I gave up and just watched before headed back into the warmth of the hostel.
So I've hit week 9 in China. Still in Shangri-la waiting for Debbie, as she got snowed in so couldn't leave the town she was in but joined me by Wednesday.
So Shangri-la has three different names known as Zhōngdiàn and Deqin and is located in the Yunnan province which is quite north in this Providence. Hence the cold weather. But it is strange weather, during the day its really warm like a summers day but bythe time it turns to dusk the temperatures drop down to nearly -8C.
Spent a day walking up to the top of a hill to a temple called the 100 chicken temple, don't know why its called that as I only saw one chicken up there.
It was a lovely view could see the whole of Shangri-la, the old town and the new town. This has been the first place in China where it has been quiet and peaceful. Hardly any noise of cars, bikes or horns which is really nice. But there is not much to do here. Even though there is a lake and the largest Buddhist monastery in Yunnan you still have to pay to get in, everything costs money, so sometimes you just have to way up if it is worth it or not. I have enjoyed staying here just to relax and chill before heading back out to the bigger cities.
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