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Lijiang Slideshow
Lijiang
Travel Blogs from Lijiang, China
When protection and heritage count for nothing
This is a top pick! ... government on a plan to remedy this D. Little is done to keep to the plan; instead more development and destruction continues E. Lijiang gets more and more tourists - almost 8 million a year - and the Naxi ethnic minority gets pushed out of its ...
Naxi dongba script available online
This is a top pick! An ancient writing system, a little like Egyptian, but still in use, is now online http://www.tucows.com/preview/602252 Are you looking for more abstract than Egyptian hieroglyphics, more mysterious ...
An early traveler in south-west China: Xu Xiake
This is a top pick! ... private residence the Jie Tuo Lin - special virtue forest - a Buddhist temple in an auspicious place amid forest north of Lijiang. Xu noted the physical surroundings, the architecture and the power of the Mu family during his two week stay in ...
Dam for Tiger Leaping Gorge
This is a top pick! ... Yangtze: CHINA: Dam Casts Long Shadow Over Idyllic Valley By Antoaneta Bezlova Tiger Leaping Gorge Credit:Antoaneta Bezlova/IPS LIJIANG, Nov 3 (IPS) - The town at Tiger Leaping Gorge is a ghost town. Clusters of new apartments in ...
Full Moon - Madness, Mayhem and Murder
This is a top pick! ... photo by the Eiffel Tower in Paris, I realised it wasn't the time or place: police, armed and mean-looking, were everywhere. Back to Lijiang. Tonight. Imagine the scene if you can. People with faces painted, some in costume, me in a mask. A sense of ...
Don't try this at hime - party at my place
This is a top pick! ... to the mess, too. What was I thinking, buying bottles of liquor? When I decided to rent this old house in the old town of Lijiang, some local friends, asked why I wanted to rent an old (60-80 year old) house, instead of a modern apartment. It had no ...
St Patrick's Day: Chinese style
This is a top pick! Well, it wasn't exactly the most Irish of St Patrick's Day. However the Irish bar in Lijiang was quite full, and there were even some signs that people were wearing green from among their limited clothes stashes. The bar was serving mojitos and ...
Old China in Lijiang- perfect for a wedding
This is a top pick! Friday, 02 October 2009 Tourists visiting the ancient city of Lijiang in south-west China were greeted by an incongruous sight this summer. In the shadow of the Jade Dragon mountain, an old Carthusian could ...
Avril comes to Lijiang
This is a top pick! ... September 26 in Macau, followed up by Shenzhen in Guangdong Province on September 28, Chengdu in Sichuan Province on September 30, Lijiang in Yunnan Province on October 2, Shanghai on October 4 and Beijing on October 6. The Shanghai concert will be at ...
More tourists this year to Yunnan
This is a top pick! I was wondering why there are more people on the streets of Lijiang, and then I saw this in China Daily - tourist numbers up 26% - and the prospect that they will surpass 7 million for the year! More than 3.4 million tourists visited Lijiang, ...
What to do on a rain day in Lijiang - with 2000 y
This is a top pick! Have your photo taken in ethnic costume: ...
Ultimate Frisbee on Snow Dragon Mountain
This is a top pick! Today we had a free day in Lijiang. We all met Eric for breakfast and walked round to the local market. We wound our way round the little streets - I was completely lost by the time we got to the market. The produce on sale was amazingly fresh, ...
Lijiang
This is a top pick! ... and fun - go Maggie! Her husband Sean will be our local guide for the Tiger Leaping Gorge. The old part of Lijiang has cobble-paved roads and has all the conveniences that a traveller needs. This morning, I followed John's recommendation of cafes ...
Tourism numbers down in Yunnan
This is a top pick! ... real Lijiang, and not the usual swarm of tourists, now is the time," he said. The obvious plunge in tourist arrivals in Lijiang has directly impacted those like Niu, who make a living from such visitors. As a manager of a small outdoor travel agency ...
10 reasons China is my favorite country
This is a top pick! 1. It is a developed country that hasn't lost its flavor. 2. People are genuinely friendly and helpful and inclusive to foreigners. 3. Guys are respectful. 4. Galls are educated and appear to be in charge. 5. People are proud, but humble. 6. ...
Lijiang: Centre of the Naxi culture
This is a top pick! Yet again, another stepping stone on the way to Tiger Leaping Gorge, but worth the visit. The Old Town is made up of traditional style Chinese architecture and is very quirky with it's cobbled streets. The only problem is that it is overwhelmed with ...
Premature arrival of man's best friend
This is a top pick! ... one, he said. How much? I asked. 3,000. [that's about US$420] That seemed to be the going price for collies in Lijiang. Or at least the price for foreigners. So I planned to go to Kunming again sometime in the future. Then, the other week, ...
Tiger Leaping Gorge
This is a top pick! ... builders' handiwork at regular intervals, and even made a few constructive criticisms. Just business as usual, I guess. We returned to Lijiang early the next morning, and bought our ticket to back to Kunming; this time, having learned our lesson on ...
Tiger Leaping Gorge
This is a top pick! ... and along cliff edges, eventually arriving at Tina's Guesthouse around lunchtime. The Israeli couple we were with headed back to Lijiang from here, but me and the Aussie+NZ couple climbed down the remaining few hundred metres to the rapids below. This ...
Glaciers are going
This is a top pick! ... kilometers. Yulong's glaciers are crucial to the surrounding area's ecology and they are also a major tourist draw for Lijiang, one of China's most popular travel destinations.SavedURI :Hide ...
The dangers of hiking Tiger Leaping Gorge
This is a top pick! ... happen from June to September. I like in this story how the beat up the story: a primitive hospital in the town of Lijiang. And I can't believe that they claim it was two days before they got modern medical treatment. I guess it shows the value ...
Train Kunming to Lijiang starting soon
This is a top pick! Well, finally, after 5 years, a bankruptcy, and some delays, it appears the train line from Dali to Lijiang is finished. Today I heard firecrackers sound out for a long time, and in the distance could see that a viaduct had finally been completed, its ...
Naxi and internet
This is a top pick! ... , while music/arts was least mentioned. Clothing is a crucial way of displaying minorities to outsiders. In China particularly there are "minority parks". With technological modernity, culture becomes costume as it formalizes identity according to rules ...
UNESCO World Heritage site - Lijiang
This is a top pick! This is our third day in beautiful Lijiang. We took a mid morning bus from Dali and wound our way up the mountains to this small pleasant city. The Old Town - which if you come here would more than likely be where you base yourself and the area in which ...
Wind power for Lijiang
This is a top pick! Well, it does get windy sometimes around Lijiang, and even though there are hydro dams on the way on the Yangtse, along with some existing dams on tributaries, there are now plans to put in both solar and wind farms. ...
Bored in Lijiang
This is a top pick! When in Lijiang the one place other than the old town to visit is the Black Dragon Pool park. Basically a park with a small bit of water and some mountains in the background, so we decided to go there. On the walk there Dave and Jesper amused themselves ...
The Olympics - a high altitude spy report
This is a top pick! ... and MSG - the implications of the no-sweat sensibility seem to be manifesting now across younger generations: they are getting fat. Local Lijiang people tend to be stout or wirey, but some of the city folk from the eastern seaboard of China are podgy, ...
Stabber gets 15 years for attacking 20-odd people
This is a top pick! ... guide given 15 years in jail for stabbing 20 people A tour guide who stabbed 20 people in the tourist town of Lijiang in south China's Yunnan Province, in an incident that took place earlier this year, was sentenced to15 years in prison by a local ...
Round the Bend - Shigu - first bend of the Yangtze
This is a top pick! ... is made an abrupt U-turn back into central China, giving water, life, silt and much more to millions. Only an hour from Lijiang along a good paved road (with a toll), the trip winds and dips, passing gum trees with their trunks painted white, and ...