{"id":863,"date":"2011-02-18T16:22:48","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T08:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/?p=863"},"modified":"2011-02-18T21:40:24","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T13:40:24","slug":"biking-to-baisha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/?p=863","title":{"rendered":"Biking to Baisha"},"content":{"rendered":"

Day 3 – “I think we should bike to Baisha–twice”<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

After deciding to wait another day so that I had a hiking buddy for the gorge, Susanne and I found our way to the Mao Zedong statue in Lijiang. It was here that we found “Ali Baba’s Cafe” where you can rent a bike for 15 \u5143 per day, as long as you return it by 6:30.\u00a0 We headed out of town to the North to try to find the village of Baisha.\u00a0 We were hoping there would be a sign because the map from Ali Baba’s was not doing it for us.\u00a0 We kept riding and riding and riding and finally we turned when I saw the Chinese characters \u767d\u6c99\u3002 \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 We didn’t really know what we were getting into with Baisha.\u00a0 Just that it was a famous village.\u00a0 So we biked and biked and found a cute little village (not Baisha) to bike around in.\u00a0 We took some pictures, biked around some more, and then found ourselves back in Lijiang. WHAT?!?\u00a0 How did this happen.\u00a0 We stopped at a place for some Yunnan Coffee to figure out where we should go.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Delicious Yunnan Coffee. And a 'biscuit' that came with it. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

After drinking our coffee and talking to the woman who owned the shop–she was Malaysian and spoke English–we decided to give Baisha another try.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Back on the bikes.\u00a0 This time I decided to ask random strangers along the way how to get to Baisha. Each time I asked, the person would point me in the direction that I had come from before. This was mildly frustrating.\u00a0 So we persevered. Eventually we would find Baisha. We had to. It was famous.\u00a0 After about 25-30 minutes of biking we found ourselves at an intersection that we were at before.\u00a0 Instead of turning the direction we came from, we decided to go straight.\u00a0 This was the right choice.\u00a0 Now we could not miss the signs.\u00a0 Where were these signs when we needed them the first time?\u00a0 The frustrating thing was that we were practically in Baisha the first time, we just made one wrong turn.\u00a0 So, here we were, in the small village.\u00a0 It really wasn’t much but a couple of streets selling stuff and a few cafes.\u00a0 We had lunch in one cafe and wandered around the streets for a while.<\/div>\n
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This is Dr. He (pronounced like huh). He is really famous in China. Actually, I think he's famous because he's mentioned in The Lonely Planet. This was our main attraction in Baisha and he made us read all of his English news articles about him. He's very old. He is said to have "cured" his disease using only natural\/traditional Chinese medicine.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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This woman was taking a picture of us--the foreigners--so I took her picture. This is a common occurrence in the 'rural' parts of the country. \ud83d\ude42<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

After leaving Baisha, we biked back the way we came the second time.\u00a0 On the bike ride back to town, I was chased by two dogs. Now you might think this is funny…and it was for about two minutes.\u00a0 I decided to bike faster but the dogs just wouldn’t leave me alone.\u00a0 By the time they were following me at full speed for about five minutes (thankfully there is no traffic on the country roads) I was fed up.\u00a0 I could not shake the dogs.\u00a0 Susanne is now way behind me and cracking up.\u00a0 This is funny if you are not the one being chased by dogs.\u00a0 All I know is that they eventually left and I was able to stop.\u00a0 Yikes.\u00a0<\/div>\n
We found our way to Mao Zedong’s statue.\u00a0 We dropped off the bikes, picked up the deposit and went to find some dinner.\u00a0 We ended up dining in the hostel as we prepared for the next day’s hike.\u00a0 All in all, Baisha was fun.\u00a0 I don’t think I would ever bike there twice again. \ud83d\ude09<\/div>\n
I can only add one form of transportation to this day: bicycle! (probably my favorite anyway!)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Day 3 – “I think we should bike to Baisha–twice”\u00a0 After deciding to wait another day so that I had a hiking buddy for the gorge, Susanne and I found our way to the Mao Zedong statue in Lijiang. It was here that we found “Ali Baba’s Cafe” where you can rent a bike for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=863"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":884,"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/863\/revisions\/884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amber.schlomer.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}