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Lijiang Slideshow
Top Hotels in Lijiang
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Treasure Harbour International Hotel Lijiang
110 reviews -
Sightseeing Hotel Lijiang
26 reviews -
He Xi Hotel Lijiang
26 reviews
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Senlong Hotel Lijiang
23 reviews
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Conifer Lysg Resort Hotel Lijiang
61 reviews
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Yunnan Aviation Sightseeing Hotel Lijiang
17 reviews
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Adange Hotel Lijiang
23 reviews -
Lijiang International Hotel
72 reviews
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Guanfang Hotel Lijiang
115 reviews
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Chateau L Act Hotel Lijiang
34 reviews
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Crowne Plaza Lijiang Ancient T
247 reviews
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Lijiang Wang Fu Hotel
144 reviews
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Jade Dragon Garden Hotel Lijiang
25 reviews
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Nanyuan Inn Lijiang Yuhe
10 reviews
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Grand Lijiang
34 reviews
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Li Xiang Yuan Resort Hotel Lijiang
3 reviews
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Zhehai Hengde Hotel Lijiang
13 reviews
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Lijiang Dianxi Mingzhu Hotel
2 reviews
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Shiner Hotel Lijiang
18 reviews
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Lijiang Jian Nan Chun Wen Yuan
41 reviews
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Vibes Sightseeing Lijiang
7 reviews
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Liwang Hotel Lijiang
26 reviews
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My Home Boutique Hotel Lijiang
2 reviews
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Lijiang Golden Spring Hotel
23 reviews
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Jin Tian Hotel Lijiang
5 reviews
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Nanmen Acient City Hotel Lijiang
21 reviews
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Ancient Spruce Grand (Zhi Yun Shan) Lijiang
9 reviews
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MCA Lijiang Hotel
8 reviews -
Zen Garden Hotel Lijiang
165 reviews
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Gua Dai Guo Hotel Lijiang
10 reviews
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Mu S Mansion Hotel Lijiang
7 reviews
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Yuequan Yizhan Hotel Lijiang
5 reviews
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Lijiang Sanhe Hotel
48 reviews
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Lugu Lake Da Ba Hotel Lijiang
3 reviews
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Dragon Palace Hotel Lijiang
4 reviews
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Bo Nan Hotel Lijiang
19 reviews
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Lijiang Guchengyuan Hotel
4 reviews
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Gulu Bay Hotel Lijiang
1 review
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Naxi Net Inn Main House Lijiang
6 reviews
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Honghe Hotel Lijiang
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Travel Blogs from Lijiang, China
Trekking in Tiger Leaping Gorge
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! 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
This is a top pick! ... 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...
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... . 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
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... . 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?
This is a top pick! 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
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! 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?
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... 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?
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! 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
This is a top pick! ... . 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
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! 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
This is a top pick! 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
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... , 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
This is a top pick! ... 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
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...