were slipping and sliding all over the place, we arrived at Mr. Nice’s red faced and covered in mud - of course there wasn‘t a bead of sweat on Mr. Nice! His place was gorgeous, it had a courtyard style area and our room was above the stables which housed a horse, mule, various chickens and extremely lively puppy! There was a rack of sweet corn drying and an area on the opposite site for sitting, eating and drinking, we were greeted with a lovely cup of tea which was heavenly and very refreshing, although it wasn’t long before we moved on to beer and chocolate - for energy reasons obviously!

The Naxi people customs are that the women runs the house and generally gives out the orders which all the laydees of the tour thought was a fantastic idea! We were treated to a lovely traditional Naxi meal which was polished off in no time. We met a couple of Australian’s a son and his mum and

their Chinese friends who were very lively and the mum specialised in massage so she put her trade to good use and gave a few of our group some fairly hardcore massaging. Thankfully I was treated to a more gentle one by Jason from our group, which was heavenly and very relaxing. So after a couple of beers, a load of food, a massage and a 2 hour hike it was off to bedibyes early for me an Rob, I think we were in bed for half 10 but seeing as we had a 7 o’clock start we didn’t think there was any need for a late night!
We woke the next morning excited about our hike but also wishing we could have a few more hours asleep, but its not really difficult to motivate yourself in those circumstances, you just needed to look out of the window and you felt very much alive! We could also hear hyper puppy down stairs getting far too excited about the fact that people were waking up and there was the chance of a fuss for him! We ordered breakfast one banana and