Hey,
We had a terrifying bus ride from chengdu to danba yesterday. It was supposed to be 6 hours but turned to 16, but that's pretty common in China, we were stopped by this barrier that let us continue only from 18:00..the problem was holding our breath for hours, watching the bus go slowly along the edge of those cliffs over the river, with no rails and trucks barely passing us from the opposite direction. It felt like we were an inch away from falling all the time. I hate to whine and I know that there's not much to do, but still - what do you know about the roads from : danba-tagong-litang-daocheng - shangrila- lijiang? What's the safest way around those (don't mind changing the route at all, but prefer not going a lot north since we don't have much time). We feel a bit stuck since there aren't any airports till lijiang and that means that we can only go back to chengdu and plan something from there..any ideas?





