We’re not planning on staying in Hostels all that much, just inexpensive hotels and eating in mostly small restaurants and street food. We’ll also use the train system as our main source of travel and probably buses for shorter trips.

I was wondering what kind of budget we should aim for? I was hoping for about ,000 USD or less, not including air fair, visas, vaccines, etc (thats about ,500 USD). Does anyone have any idea of the cost from experience? Any advice as to how much we will spend per day, etc?

Any advice would be appreciated!

We’re not planning on staying in Hostels all that much, just inexpensive hotels and eating in mostly small restaurants and street food. We’ll also use the train system as our main source of travel and probably buses for shorter trips.

I was wondering what kind of budget we should aim for? I was hoping for about ,000 USD or less, not including air fair, visas, vaccines, etc (thats about ,500 USD). Does anyone have any idea of the cost from experience? Any advice as to how much we will spend per day, etc?

Any advice would be appreciated!

hong kong
macau
shenzhen

GUANGXI guilin
YUNNAN kunming
-lijiang
-shangri-la
etc.

SZECHUAN chengdu [intl airport]
-emei mt.
-dujiang dam

Shanghai

Thank you.

THANKS!
Thanks for the copy and paste answer. It was helpful. Anyone else know first hand of the places I mentioned in Yunnan and whether they are worth seeing? Also, if you can suggest an itinerary as to how to get to these places from kunming that would be helfpul

June 11 (ANI): An unusual kind of grass at the Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden (XTBG) in China, which dances to musical tunes and songs, has become a tourist attraction.

People stand around and sing to troves of these grasses. The uniqueness of the grass was observed when some scientists, while out on field trips, relaxed in the wood and sang for self-enjoyment.

They found the blades of the grass opening or closing at their sounds, reports the China Daily.

The dancing grass has made locals recall the story of a Dai girl named Duoyi who loved to dance.

According to the tale, the local brute got wind of it and forced her to dance for him every day. She resisted and jumped into the river. Upon her tomb began to grow gobs of grass that danced gracefully, just as she had done when alive.

However, scientists say that the real reason is the decibel level, which should be between 35 and 65.

They say that sunshine can also start it to boogie. (ANI)

• 2Step
• 4-beat
• 2 tone
• A cappella – any singing performed without instrumental backing
• Aak – Korean court music
• Aaroubi – evolved form of al-andalous classical music which comes from Algiers
• Abaimajani
• Abajeños – folk music of the Perépecha of Mexico
• Aboriginal rock – rock and roll mixed with Australian aborigine music, began in 1980s
• Abstract hip hop
• Abwe
• Acoustic Punk
• Acoustic Techno Fusion
• Acid croft – mixture of traditional Scottish music with house influences
• Acid house – house music using simple tone generators with tempo-controlled resonant filters
• Acid groove
• Acid jazz – jazz mixed with soul, hip hop and funk
• Acid punk
• Acid rap
• Acid rock
• Acid techno
• Adai-adai
• Aduk-aduk
• Adult contemporary
• Anti-Serious Music
• Afoxé
• African blues
• African jazz
• Afrobeat – African rhythms mixed with American funk
• Afro-Cuban jazz – jazz mixed with merengue, salsa or other Latin forms
• Afro-Cuban rumba
• Afro-juju
• Afro-Kaiya – originated in San Diego
• Afro-Manding blues
• Afro-punk
• Afro-reggae
• Afro-soul
• Afro-zouk
• Afroma
• Aggrotech
• Aguinaldo
• Ahouach
• Ahidus
• Air
• Akyn – Kazakh folk music made by travelling musicians also called akyn
• Alb-pop – Albanian pop music
• Aleatoric music – music the composition of which is partially left to chance
• Algerias
• Alomaco
• Alpine New Wave
• Alpunk
• Alternative country – reaction against the 1990s highly-polished Nashville sound
• Alternative hip hop – opposite of gangsta rap, usually includes socially or politically aware lyrics (also known as alternative rap or Bohemian hip hop)
• Alternative metal – catch-all term for heavy metal mixed with punk, funk, hip hop or other influences
• Alternative punk
• Alternative rock- broad movement born in the 1980s generally relegated to the underground music scene and operating outside of the mainstream
• Alternative synth – Also known as Subliminal, this features usually a repeatative bass riff and/or a bass riff that is played backwards. It also features a lot of keyboards and is usually instrumental
• Amanédhes
• Ambient – atmospheric electronic music combined with jazz, New Age and other influences
• Ambient acoustic
• Ambient breakbeat
• Ambient dub
• Ambient electronica
• Ambient house
• Ambient groove
• Ambient techno
• Ambient trance
• American fingerstyle guitar (American primitive guitar)
• Americana
• Anadolu rock – Turkish rock music
• Anarcho-punk – 1970s mixture of punk rock with anarchist lyrics
• Andártika
• Andean New Age – a mixture of native Peruvian and Western musics which arose in tourist areas in Lima, Cuzco, and Ollantaytambo
• Angklung – Osinger and Balinese style of gamelan performed exclusively by young boys
• Angolan merengue
• Anti-folk
• Antiphonal
• Apala
• Appalachian folk – in the United States, commonly referred to as simply folk music
• Arabesk – A versatile collection of music fusing Turkish folk music, Arab classical music and various other genres
• Areito
• Arena rock – 1970s catchy, bombastic mixture of hard rock, prog and pop music
• Argentinean rock
• Arpa grande – a style of rural Mexican folk music
• Arribeño – lyrical folk music from Sierra Gorda, Mexico
• Ars antiqua
• Ars nova
• Artcore
• Art metal
• Art punk
• Art rock
• Ashiq – Azeri bards who sing and accompany themselves on a saz (a kind of lute)
• Ashoug
• Asian Underground – British-based form of Indian and Western fusion
• Australian country music (see also Country music)
• Australian pub rock
• Australian hip hop
• Australian humour
• Australian warmetal
• Avant-garde jazz
• Avant-garde metal
• Avant-garde music – any kind of experimental music incorporated bizarre ideas, structures or instrumentation
• Axé – pop music from Salvador, Bahia
• Bachata
• Baião
• Bakersfield sound – gritty, hard-edged reaction against 1950s pop country (Nashville sound)
• Bakshy – Turkmen folk music made by travelling musicians also called bakshy
• Baiáo – Dance music created by a trio of triangle, bass drum and accordion
• Baila – Sri Lankan dance music derived from African slaves held by the Portuguese
• Baile Funk – Brazilian dance music literally means "ball", as in "dance party", and "funk"
• Baisha xiyue – a song and dance suite from the Naxi of Lijiang, China
• Bajourou
• Bakou – trilling vocals that accompany Wolof wrestling
• Bagad
• Bal granmoun
• Bal-musette
• Balakadri
• Ballad – generic term for usually slow, romantic, despairing and catastrophic songs
• Ballad calypso
• Ballata
• Ballet (music)
• Balss
• Bamberas
• Bamboo band – originally from the Solomon Islands, music played by hitting bamboo tubes with sandals
• Ba
Fnck it got cut off -_- theres +1500 genres XD O_O No way in hell I would type all that… I cheated.

Now, I understand that my sickness could have easily been caused by food or other things, and even water since water in Lijiang boils at only 196 degrees F as opposed to the usual 212. Maybe it wasn’t enough to kill the bacteria. But do you think the tea leaves themselves could cause the illness? I rediscovered the tea, and remembered that it tasted very good. I’d like to try it again, although this time with clean water. What do you think?