We made it into Dali in the early afternoon after a six hour bus ride from Kunming, enough time to explore the old town of Dali.
The following day the group split; I joined the group going for a bike ride. At first we headed down to the port to get a ferry to the other side of ErHai sea. Here we passed through a temple complex to finally follow a street to the next bigger village – and ended up doing a 40 km loop.