Kunming to Dali (22nd October 2015)

Bus trip from Kunming to Dali:

• Predicted 5-8 hours, depending on the traffic. 
• Actual 10+ hours. An accident blocked the main highway. We were diverted onto a provincial road. There were roadworks on the provincial road reducing sections of it to a single lane. 

All Chinese drivers know that the only way to get where you want is to push forward, and if there's nothing coming in the opposite direction, you should overtake (even when the vehicles you're overtaking are all banked back due to a jam ahead).

(Always a geek - I think of this in terms of Bus Contention and a lack of  Bus Arbitration.)

On to lighter things. In the hotel lobby in Kunming:

In the hotel lobby in Dali:

After the long drive, the market in the walled ancient quarter in Dali was delightful.