Lijiang

Travel Blogs from Lijiang, China

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Trekking in Tiger Leaping Gorge, Lijiang, China travel blog

Trekking in Tiger Leaping Gorge

A travel blog entry by philthy

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... was getting late we decided to also skip lunch so we could make it to the ferry and get to the next town to catch a bus back to Lijiang. From the map we had it looked like a three mile hike to the ferry and then a few more to town. We even had the ...

Dali and Lijiang or, Lijiang, China travel blog

Dali and Lijiang or

A travel blog entry by philthy

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... Lijiang, another hot-spot for Chinese tour groups (they are easy to spot with their matching hats and flag bearing leader). Lijiang did have the benefit of having their ancient buildings intact as well as having a pretty impressive maze of canals winding ...

And yet another trek, Tiger Leaping Gorge, China travel blog

And yet another trek

A travel blog entry by orizarska

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I trek the Tiger Leaping Gorge in the delightful company of a young American family that is biking around South East Asia with their two lovely girls - aged 4 years and 18 months. I am inspired! All of you with the family excuse - better find another ...

Parental Adventures in China, Part II, Lijiang and Tiger Leaping Gorge, China travel blog

Parental Adventures in China, Part II

A travel blog entry by lraleigh

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... of Joseph F. Rock." In the 1930s, Joseph Rock, working for the National Geographic Society, led botanical explorations in the Lijiang and eastern Tibetan region. Soon, he became interested in the Dongba culture as well: their petroglyph writing, their ...

Beyond the postcard picture..., Lijiang, China travel blog

Beyond the postcard picture...

A travel blog entry by bootsmade4wlkin

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... First Bend in the Yangze River, then walked through a little town called Stone Drum. It was picturesque in a way that Lijiang wasn't; it didn't have that Disney varnish but still had that magical quaintness that comes sometimes from things just being old ...

Recon to China, Lijiang, China travel blog

Recon to China

A travel blog entry by paul

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... Gorge and whatever I could find there. Shanny, who was from a minority group called the Bai, was from a village just outside of Lijiang. Before getting on the bus, I decided I should go to the wedding. It isn't often I go to weddings in China, so ...

Day 50, Lijiang, China travel blog

Day 50

A travel blog entry by poolman99

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... us off. He threatened to kick us off the bus if we didn't pay, so we all walked off the bus and let him carry on without us. This wasn't a big problem for us as residents of Mama Naxi's guesthouse in Lijiang - she would pick us up from anywhere for ...

Olimpic fever, Lijiang, China travel blog

Olimpic fever

A travel blog entry by orizarska

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... . A traditional Naxi music is being played by a band of centennial Naxis (an ethnic minority that is majority in Lijiang area). There is a traditional dancing in circle performed by elderly Naxi ladies in brand new traditional Naxi outfits. The whole ...

Day 47, Lijiang, China travel blog

Day 47

A travel blog entry by poolman99

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... before - a practice that still confuses me. Our job was to get straight on a bus from Panzhihua to our final destination Lijiang. We didn't hang around either as we walked straight out of the station and were greeted by touts who knew we wanted to ...

What you should do in China, Lijiang, China travel blog

What you should do in China

A travel blog entry by happysheep

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... . http://www.sinowaytravel.com/chinablog/index.php/2008/10/a-different-opinion-about-lijiang/ 12 Perfect Days in Classic China Day 4 (Tuesday): Lijiang After three days in Beijing you will crave blue skies and fresh air, so escape to Yunnan ...

Where's the real China?, Lijiang, China travel blog

Where's the real China?

A travel blog entry by happysheep

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Funny the things people think and say. For example visitors coming to Lijiang in southwest China are led to believe it is a UN World Heritage site where the Naxi ethnic minority people practice their matriarchal ways. It's not true really. The Naxi ...

Escaping the rat race, Lijiang, China travel blog

Escaping the rat race

A travel blog entry by happysheep

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... to it, or just leave it," says Shanghai native Li Junnian, a software developer who sold his flat and last month moved to picturesque Lijiang, a small town in Yunnan Province. The 27-year-old plans to open a pub with the 800,000 yuan from the sale of ...

Glacier going fast, Lijiang City, China travel blog

Glacier going fast

A travel blog entry by happysheep

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... glacial systems on the Tibetan Plateau to disappear after thousands of years. The glacier, situated above the honky-tonk town of Lijiang in southwest China, has receded 830 feet over the last two decades and appears to be wasting away at an ever more ...

Around the lake - Lashi hai lake, Lijiang, China travel blog

Around the lake - Lashi hai lake

A travel blog entry by happysheep

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... Shangri-la skirting around its southern side, the lake is a hidden jewel that few local people and even fewer tourists visit. While Lijiang gets maybe 10 million visitors a year, the lake, just 10km away, gets only a few thousand foreigners and Chinese ...

Jackie Chan comes to town, lijiang, China travel blog

Jackie Chan comes to town

A travel blog entry by happysheep

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... the reward. Distribution Workshop's Jeffrey Chan said he will handle international sales for the Chinese-language film, set during China's Warring States Period (476 B.C.-221 B.C.), in association with the JC Group. Polybona Film Distribution and JC ...

Buying a crane, Lijiang, China travel blog

Buying a crane

A travel blog entry by happysheep

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Today I brought a crane. No, not the heavy-duty, hydraulic, mechanical kind found all over China, thin yellow giants building the New China. No, instead I got a crane of the feathered kind. A rare black-necked crane no less. It only cost me 20 yuan ...

Tea Horse route to get world heritage status?, Lijiang, China travel blog

Tea Horse route to get world heritage status?

A travel blog entry by happysheep

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... be an entry fee? A toll gate? Experts proposed applying for the Ancient Tea and Horse Route, a major trade route in ancient China's Sichuan, Yunnan and Tibet, for its designation as the world cultural heritage. "The Ancient Tea and Horse Route, one of ...

Living in ther laziest city in China, Lijiang City, China travel blog

Living in ther laziest city in China

A travel blog entry by happysheep

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... elected as one of the most laziest cities in China in 2004. Life here couldn't be more comfortable. There is an upside to Lijiang being a tourist attraction. A late breakfast in one of the many up-scale cafes fits the slow, lazy pace of life. The ...

Fakes or authentic?, Lijiang, China travel blog

Fakes or authentic?

A travel blog entry by happysheep

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... paintings of the Naxi ethnic people. "The paintings and souvenir scarves, bags with strange looking Naxi characters you find in Lijiang are actually done by vendors from Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces," he says. "They make good money but they do not ...

Reform of tourism in Yunnan, Lijiang, China travel blog

Reform of tourism in Yunnan

A travel blog entry by happysheep

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I am not sure how you 'reform' tourism, but clearly in historic places like Lijiang something has to be done to halt the inappropriate development and the destruction of cultural heritage: China is reforming its tourism industry in a new bid to improve ...

New Doco on Mosuo, Lijiang, China travel blog

New Doco on Mosuo

A travel blog entry by happysheep

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... . The documentary is made by Erqing, also a Mosuo, and participant in the village video project sponsored by the EU-China Biodiversity Program. The project aims to show the nation's cultural and biological diversity through the eyes of the locals. The ...

Real taste in Lijiang, Lijiang, China travel blog

Real taste in Lijiang

A travel blog entry by happysheep

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... threw into the soup.          It was a highlight of my family's recent trip to Lijiang in Southwest China. We were lucky to spend 10 days with our friend's family, which allowed us to catch glimpses of local life. ...

Keeping Naxi music alive, Lijiang, China travel blog

Keeping Naxi music alive

A travel blog entry by happysheep

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Naxi Folk Song Family Strives to Keep Music Charm story at http://english.cri.cn/7146/2009/05/22/1901s486897.htm or listen to the show at ...

Death, the Naxi and The Castle, Lijiang, China travel blog

Death, the Naxi and The Castle

A travel blog entry by happysheep

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  The first full day after I arrived in Lijiang this year it was snowing. Looking out into the courtyard in front of my small house, I saw the first of my neighbours making his way slowly towards the courtyard from down the alleyway. He moved ...

The perils of getting World Heritage status, Lijiang City, China travel blog

The perils of getting World Heritage status

A travel blog entry by happysheep

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... that can turn obscure sites into must-see destinations. The repercussions are hard to prevent. In the ancient western Chinese city of Lijiang, the number of annual visitors climbed from 1.7 million to 4.6 million in the 10 years since it was listed in ...

Day 48, Lijiang, China travel blog

Day 48

A travel blog entry by poolman99

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... or pancakes and bananas. I went for the former and it came with thick bread too so I got a good feed. Today we walked through Lijiang to see the Black Dragon Pool. Lijiang is separated into two parts, the New Town and the Old Town. The Old Town is almost ...

Internet jobs in China amid econonic slowdown, Lijiang, China travel blog

Internet jobs in China amid econonic slowdown

A travel blog entry by happysheep

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... Internet recruitment: a new way for job seekers By Chen Jing Bian Xiaoheng, a senior of Yunnan University went back to Lijiang, her hometown, and now has become a famous "travel planner" on some renowned tour forums. Based on her familiarity ...

Day 49, Lijiang, China travel blog

Day 49

A travel blog entry by poolman99

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... , but we all really wanted to stay 1.5 hours further on at the Half-way guest house because of recommendations from people back in Lijiang. Martha, Steve and I got to the Tea Horse at around 4.30pm though and found a note from Antonio saying that they had ...

Lijiang after translation, Lijiang, China travel blog

Lijiang after translation

A travel blog entry by happysheep

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... heart smile, yes ah, Lijiang what they do not want to Let your heart where love might become a very simple. In China such a big place, Lijiang is a unique, on the one hand you can live a very elementary to bloom like romantic day at the same time you ...

10 places you must see in China, Lijiang, China travel blog

10 places you must see in China

A travel blog entry by happysheep

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... you can think about nothing at all but makes your heat beat, making an amativeness may become very simple. In China, such a large place, Lijiang is in a class by itself. On the one hand, you can economicly lead a romantic life as sentimental writings ...

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