Left Dali at 08:30 for the 3 day drive to the Laos border. We immediately joined a really good Chinese motorway and stayed on motorway all day and therefore made good progress. Toll Booths are at every Chinese Motorway entry and exit and we went on small sections earlier in China.
Stopped briefly at Kunming to buy some snacks. Kunming is a huge city and the motorway are really impressive and just as in the rest of China they are still extending the roads network. An hour later we stopped at Yuxi to shop at one of Wall Mart’s 361 Chinese stores – items for sale included dried ducks and fish. MacDonald's was in the same block as WallMart (as was Dico’s (Chinese MacDonald's which we saw in all the major Chinese cities). We then re-joined the Motorway and saw huge areas of Plastic tunnels alongside the Motorway where agriculture is being intensified.
At about 19:00 we set up a bush camp just off the motorway. The weather has now changed and is warm in the evening and hot in the day – back to tee shirts and shorts, but unfortunately also mosquitoes. The bush camp overlooked a small cemetery, but although we had some noisy neighbours during the night it did not come from the graves!
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