Best (and Worst) of China

Here we have some of our best and worst moments of our time in China, we've also put together a gallery of our favourite photos which you can visit if you don't feel like ploughing through our gazillion photos. The gallery is available here.

Most INTERESTING Places
According to Yann:
1- Beijing
2- Litang and Yuanyang
3- Pingyao
According to Emilie:
1- Litang
2- Beijing
3- Yuanyang

Most DISSAPOINTING Places
According to Yann:
1-Lijiang
2-Shangri-La
3-Leshan
According to Emilie:
1-Lijiang
2-Shanghai

FUNNEST Activities
According to Yann:
1- Horse trekking in Songpan
2- Visiting nomadic monastery festival in Litang
3- Trekking through Yuanyang rice terraces
According to Emilie:
Same choices, possibly in different orders

Most DELICIOUS Foods
According to Yann:
1- Mongolian hotpot
2- Peking duck
3- Spicy Sichuan BBQ (especially in Chengdu)
According to Emilie:
1- Dumplings of all kinds (steamed and pork-filled, deep fried momos (Tibetan yak dumplings), friend and chive-filled...)
2- Breads (Tibetan flat bread, fried breakfast bread, muslim flat bread...)
3- Spicy Sichuan BBQ (easy on the spicy)

LEAST Delicious Foods
According to Yann:
1- Herb-filled steamed dumplings
2- Chongqing hotpot
3- Instant noodles (three days in a row on Yangtze boat cruise)
According to Emilie:
1- Soup with cockroach floating in it (ok, didn't have this in China, had it at Chinese buffet in Montreal)
2- Stewed pig interestines
3- Butter tea

BEST Views from a Bus
According to Yann and Emilie:
Kanding to Litang (2 pass over 4500m)

SCARIEST Bus Ride
According to Yann and Emilie:
Daocheng to Shangrila

BEST Accomodation
According to Yann and Emilie:
1- The Mis Hostel, Chengdu
2- Cloudland Hostel, Kunming
3- Lijiang Youth Hostel, Lijiang

WORST Accomodation:
According to Yann and Emilie:
1- Some hotel in Ruili (so bad that we have repressed its name from our memory)
2- Train-station Hotel, Yichang
3- Some brothel in Jianshui


In addition we have updated our homepage (wiki) with our finance information for China which is available here and a page with the web page of people we met on our trip in China which is available here.