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Lijiang Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Lijiang, China
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 ...
UNESCO world heritage status = death sentence
This is a top pick! ... has been 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 ...
Sanduo festival for the mountain god of Lijiang
This is a top pick! ... However 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 ...
Sweet n' Sour Day - Qing Ming tomb-sweeping day
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
What an incredible smell you've discovered!
This is a top pick! ... , once 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 ...
Battling the National Week crowds in Lijiang
This is a top pick! Chinese National Day is on October 1, and extends into a week of holidays and travelling for Chinese people. Lijiang in particular appeared to be a very popular destination for local tourists as it was packed with thousands of them crammed into the cafes, ...
Full Moon Over Lijiang (The Universal Fly Dance)
This is a top pick! ... and embroidered. Men, boys, and younger women typically wear whatever suits their personality. On the full moon, I biked through the Lijiang Valley north towards Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. Along the way, I played music with the townsfolk of Basha and ...
Preserving Lijiang
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Hungry ghosts and foreigners
This is a top pick! ... 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 ...
Yunnan pandas prefer milk
This is a top pick! 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 ...
Stabber gets 15 years for attacking 20-odd people
This is a top pick! ... - 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 ...
Shangri-la overun by tourists?
This is a top pick! ... 'spoilt by tourists' or 'cultural shopping mall'. This story, published in ISPNews, gives a more rounder perspective of Lijiang: CULTURE-CHINA: 'Shangri La' Under Tourist Siege By Antoaneta Bezlova LIJIANG, Nov 14 (IPS) - The ancient Tea and ...
Lijiang
This is a top pick! ... other one is the Black Dragon Palace. In the afternoon, we continued to explore the Old Town. I think Lijiang has the best preserved ancient town in China. The traditional local lifestyle still can be seen in this area. You can see many women dressed in ...
Man injured in Tiger Leaping Gorge recovers
This is a top pick! ... had a broken neck. He rode on the donkey for one-and-a-half miles. An ambulance then took him to a primitive hospital in Lijiang. "It was just a very small hospital," Nora says. "Kind-of felt like being in World War Two." Doctors performed an MRI ...
May holiday phenomena
This is a top pick! ... time with their families; May holiday when most head out around China, and October holiday when most head out again around glorious China. Lijiang is one of the favourite holiday destinations in China, and the canal street with its bars and restaurants is ...
Torch festival - Lijiang
This is a top pick! That time of year again. Though this year not the crowds of previous times - perhaps due to the Fire Police going around to ensure everyone lighting a fire torch tidied up. Here's some SavedURI ...
25 authentic things to do in Asia
This is a top pick! ... /0,29569,1934455,00.html For centuries, the rocky pathway that clings to the steep sides of the narrow Tiger Leaping Gorge in China's Yunnan province was traversed only by the horse caravans of tea merchants. Now this ancient route offers one of the most ...
Direct train from Kunming to Lijiang
This is a top pick! According to gokunming and other media, from 1 January 2010, there will be a direct train between Kunming and Lijiang, replacing the indirect train, which currently serves Lijiang-Dali, and requires a transfer to another later train. The train will leave ...
Lijiang, Dr. Ho and Jade Dragon Mountains
This is a top pick! ... visiting during our vacation. The city is like a time capsule of what I always imagined an ancient Chinese city to look like. Miraculously, Lijiang escaped the wrath of the Red Guard in the '60s, and now it's an ode to capitalism. Street after street of ...
Luxury train to Lijiang - coming ready or not
This is a top pick! ... Heritage town is a charming labyrinth of narrow streets, teahouses, streams and markets. Inhabited by the Naxi minority group, Lijiang has beautiful landscapes and a temperate climate year round. Here you can also visit the Jade Peak Monastery and the ...
Ethnic languages: saving or wiping out?
This is a top pick! ... on 1,000 retrieved ancient characters while local students are also learning the dying language, said He Shiyong, an official with the Lijiang Ancient City Protection Administration. Lijiang is now a popular tourist destination as well. ...
But is it art? Lijiang Studio exhibition opening
This is a top pick! ... , and local artists in two locations: one rural location, Lashihai, and one urban location, Kunming, both in Yunnan Province, China. Lijiang Studio's base is at Lashihai, a rural farming community 20 kilometers from the city of Lijiang, a UNESCO World ...
Nothing new under the sun - hot showers
This is a top pick! ... the earth, climate change, rising energy costs or because they are greenies, but because they make sense. Economic sense. Here in Lijiang we have plenty of sunshine - with between 5 and 9 hours on average each day throughout the year. I came across ...
Bump...Bump...Bumpidy Bump
This is a top pick! ... and enjoying the conservation work of this place trying to keep it traditional (No McDonalds!!). A new pagoda built shortly after the Lijiang earthquake of 1996 offers amazing views of both the old town and the new town that sprung up in the wake of the ...
Best lake in Lijiang
This is a top pick! The best lake in Lijiang is a little out of town, but worth the 20 minute ride. You can ride a horse, take a boat on the lake, go for a walk. I like visiting the villages around the lake, looking up to the Yi villages on the hillsides, and peering ...
Dividing the Year - Equinoxes, Seasons, Calendars
This is a top pick! ... mid-Autumn or Moon festival on the 15th day of the 8th month - 25 September. During the second Golden Week starting with China's National Day on 1 October we have Cold Dew starting 9 October, the Double Ninth Festival on 19 October; then Descent of ...