From some far away mountains in China

(Written two days ago)
I'll just write briefly to say that today is Johannes' 30th birthday
and we are going to celebrate it by climbing a mountain and staying at
a guesthouse up there. We are in Dali, southwest China, close to the
Tibet, and right here there is a big lake and a huge wall of
mountains climbing up 4000 meters, so yes, sounds exciting!
Of course we've been in China all this time but I can't write in my
blog because it's ~#%^ but I find my ways to write. Of course
travelling in NZ and all previous destinations was a peace of cake and
this is the real adventure. So we've changed the facebook for the
phrasebook and are getting really good at gesturing. I'll write
sometime more about all we've been doing, but so that you guys get an
idea we started in Shanghai, then the mountains of Wuyishan, Hong
Kong, biked the amazing lanscape of Guilin , caught a cold "village
hoping" in Guizhou but saw the minorities with the traditional
costumes, and now we are in Dali heading up to Lijiang, then down to
Xishuangsbanna with the elefants and tigers and finally crossing to
Laos around the December the 28th. This was supposed to be short... anyway Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!