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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 7, 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 ...

Preserving Lijiang
Aug 20, 2009

... building being demolished in the space of 5 minutes. So not sure how this organisation can claim credit for preserving Lijiang: China's Heritage Sites In Danger Despite the perception that China is fast becoming the world's next super economic power and ...

What an incredible smell you've discovered!
May 14, 2006 (3 photos)

... the rain eased off, were pretty amazing as we drove up, over and down into quite a few valleys before finally reaching Lijiang. After the less than fun bus journey the warm welcome we got at Mama Naxi's guesthouse made it all worthwhile as we each ...

Hungry ghosts and foreigners
Aug 16, 2008

... the one this week - the Hungry Ghost festival - is alive and well, judging from the strict adherence by locals here in Lijiang. Unlike Halloween, which is becoming more commercial and universal these days, Hungry Ghost day seems to be more of a family ...

Beyond the postcard picture...
May 22, 2006

... 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 ...

Yunnan pandas prefer milk
Sep 3, 2009

Should they really be feeding the baby pandas milk? Three pandas from Sichuan came to their new home in Yunnan Province last June. Zoo keepers have been attempting to wean the cubs, hoping for a healthy growth. But their efforts often make the baby pandas ...

Stabber gets 15 years for attacking 20-odd people
Jul 30, 2008

... - negative- about the tour guide turned stabber, who in a rage took a tibetan knife and stabbed 20 or so people in Lijiang's old town last April. My friend said how she had some guests she was showing around, and one couple went off away from the tour ...