Lijiang, China Travel Blogs

Trekking in Tiger Leaping Gorge
Mar 19, 2004 (5 photos)

... 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 option ...

Parental Adventures in China, Part II
May 27, 2006 (17 photos)

... 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 sorcerers ...

What you should do in China
Oct 28, 2008

... . 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?
Aug 31, 2008

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 ...

Rampage through Lijiang old town injures 20
Apr 2, 2007

... another guide while conducting a sightseeing tour around the Sifang Street in the ancient City of Lijiang, southwest China's Yunnan Province Sunday, local government authorities confirmed Monday. Xu Minchao, a 25-year-old national tourist ...

Glacier going fast
Oct 19, 2009

... 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 rapid rate ...

Around the lake - Lashi hai lake
Nov 19, 2007 (19 photos)

... 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 travelers ...

Jackie Chan comes to town
Apr 5, 2009

... . 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 Group will ...

Unhappy childhood contributes to rampage
Apr 4, 2007

See, that's right. The guy - from the north of China - who went on a stabbing rampage in Lijiang the other day had a ttroubled childhood. He was also involved in a dispute about kickebacks from souvenir shops in Lijiang to tour guides. Here is the ...

Slavery - old and new
Jun 4, 2007

... the Slaves, found forced labour was present in at least 90 US cities. Nearly 40 countries contributed forced labour, including China and Vietnam to restaurants, sweatshops, hotels, brothels, and Texas farms. Operators use fraud, coercion, violence and ...

Buying a crane
Mar 11, 2007 (2 photos)

... I'd heard that cranes were harbingers of good luck, but have since found more than that simple explanation - afterall, almost anything in China could be seen as good luck couldn't it? It seems the crane is more than an endangered species. It is ...

Living in ther laziest city in China
Aug 3, 2009

... 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 pizzas, ...

Dali and Lijiang or
Mar 14, 2004

... 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 ...

Fakes or authentic?
Feb 17, 2009

... 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
May 30, 2009

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 ...

Real taste in Lijiang
Oct 19, 2009

... 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
May 31, 2009

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 http://english.cri.cn/7146/2009/05/31/1221s488863.htm

Death, the Naxi and The Castle
Mar 21, 2007 (5 photos)

  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 slowly ...

The perils of getting World Heritage status
Aug 3, 2009

... 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 1997. In ...

Sichuan earthquake victims relocated to Lijiang
May 29, 2008

... 's Daily is reporting that more than 40 orphans from Shifang, Sichuan have been relocated to the Lijiang Orphan School. The relocation was organized by the All-China Women's Federation. In a strange twist of fate, the orphanage - home to more than 460 ...

China - land of a billion tourists.
Jun 13, 2004 (7 photos)

... the English for pigs intestines in her electronic translater. The lethal plum wine was pretty good though. We're now in Lijiang, which is something like a chocolate box cotswold village, but with old chinese architecture and about 30,000,000 Chinese ...

Famous Dead Poets - Li He
Mar 29, 2007 (2 photos)

... with its flagship fruit-flavoured beverage Tang). After nearly four centuries of political disunity, the Tang Dynasty reunified China, trade (and cultural exchange) via the Silk Route flourished, and poetry assumed greater importance. This supportive ...

Recon to China
May 19, 2006

... 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 ...

Internet jobs in China amid econonic slowdown
May 30, 2009

... 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 with ...

Lijiang after translation
Feb 4, 2009

... 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
Oct 6, 2008

... 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 ...

UNESCO world heritage status = death sentence
Nov 2, 2008

... ruined, its heritage value destroyed by mass tourism and the money that can be made out of it. Places such as Lijiang in China, Borobodur in Indonesia and Angkor Wat in Cambodia have all suffered in this way.World Heritage listing is like a Louis Vuitton ...

Sanduo festival for the mountain god of Lijiang
Mar 27, 2007 (5 photos)

... the water seems stagnant and green with weed. Later, someone tells me that traces of pesticide are now appearing in Lijiang's drinking water. Will Sanduo protect the Naxi, their land and their drinking water? On the way back to Lijiang I ...

Sweet n' Sour Day - Qing Ming tomb-sweeping day
Apr 5, 2007

... sun and the new greenery. The dryness around Yunnan - we don't get a rainy season til June - means it is tinder dry around Lijiang, so there is a fire ban. Up the valley, below the Jade Snow Dragon mountain range, fires have been lit by members of a ...

How many people i know carry the Torch?
Jun 10, 2008 (2 photos)

... at that time," He, a calligrapher and multi-championship winner at provincial and national sports games for the disabled from Lijiang, Yunnan province, said. As a torchbearer for the 2008 Olympics, He decided to hold the torch himself this time, with ...