{"id":4937,"date":"2021-08-12T08:17:42","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T08:17:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/happy-nomads.nl\/?p=4937"},"modified":"2021-08-12T08:42:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T08:42:43","slug":"old-town-zhongdian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happy-nomads.nl\/en\/old-town-zhongdian\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad weather in the old town of Shangri-La"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muddy roads in the old town of Shangri-La (Zhongdian) due to days of bad weather<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4943 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/happy-nomads.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/zhongdian-old-town.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/happy-nomads.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/zhongdian-old-town.jpg 750w, https:\/\/happy-nomads.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/zhongdian-old-town-300x268.jpg 300w, https:\/\/happy-nomads.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/zhongdian-old-town-600x536.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When travelling six months through Asia it is very hard to avoid both the rainy season and winter. We could avoid the winter, but therefore not the rainy season. So every now and then we had a lot of rain. Here in the old town of Shangri-La pigs didn&#8217;t seem to mind the rain and the mud.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4938\" src=\"https:\/\/happy-nomads.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/zhongdian2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"591\" srcset=\"https:\/\/happy-nomads.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/zhongdian2.jpg 750w, https:\/\/happy-nomads.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/zhongdian2-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/happy-nomads.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/zhongdian2-600x473.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muddy roads in the old town of Shangri-La (Zhongdian) due to days of bad weather &nbsp; When travelling six months through Asia it is very hard to avoid both the rainy season and winter. We could avoid the winter, but therefore not the rainy season. So every now and then we had a lot of rain. Here in the old town of Shangri-La pigs didn&#8217;t seem to mind the rain and the mud. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tibet","category-travel-adventure-asia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bad weather in the old town of Shangri-La - Happy Nomads<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Muddy roads and pigs in the old town of Shangri-La (Zhongdian, China) due to days of bad weather \/ a lot of rain.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/happy-nomads.nl\/en\/old-town-zhongdian\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Bad weather in the old town of Shangri-La - 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