Passports: check. Visas: can be got in Kunming and on the Laos border. Cameras: check. Malaria pills: check and double check. Cash, cards and phones: check. Everything else: check. I think. Excited? You bet!
We're staying in a hostel tonight, unless our CouchSurfing contact gets in touch before we get a taxi to the airport at 4.30pm our time, and taking a bus to Dali tomorrow morning. We'll be there for a few days, then pass through some villages on the way to Lijiang, which is probably the next place I'll be online.
So, so long, farewell... Speak to you in a week or so. Gran, try not to panic too much, I'll be fine. Everybody sit back and enjoy this cool panoramic photo of the flat I took with my swish new camera.
Love to all,
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