Lijiang, China Travel Blogs

Don't try this at hime - party at my place
Apr 27, 2008 (4 photos)

... 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 ...

Day 48
Nov 1, 2006 (9 photos)

... I got some good photos. The Yulong Mountain is 5500 metres high, which is about two thirds the height of Everest so it's a biggy! Lijiang is already at an altitude of 2800 metres or so and the smoggy mist that the rest of the country suffers with hasn't ...

Day 49
Nov 2, 2006 (12 photos)

... , 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 ...

St Patrick's Day: Chinese style
Mar 18, 2009

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 ...

Lijiang: Centre of the Naxi culture
Sep 20, 2006 (10 photos)

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 ...

China
Apr 3, 2006

I talk about it later. OK, eventually.

Tiger Leaping Gorge
Sep 21, 2006 (29 photos)

... 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 ...

Battling the National Week crowds in Lijiang
Oct 3, 2003 (2 photos)

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, ...

Old China in Lijiang- perfect for a wedding
Oct 19, 2009

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
Jul 30, 2008

... 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
Aug 1, 2009

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
Sep 4, 2008

Have your photo taken in ethnic costume: http://missrainie.blog.sohu.com/98962557.html

Tourism numbers down in Yunnan
Jul 30, 2008

... 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 ...

Premature arrival of man's best friend
Aug 16, 2008

... , 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, I ...

Glaciers are going
Aug 26, 2009

... . 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 URLdata:text/html;charset=utf-8,%3C!DOCTYPE%20HTML%20PUBLIC%20%22-%2F%2FW3C ...

Ultimate Frisbee on Snow Dragon Mountain
Mar 24, 2006 (5 photos)

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, ...

The dangers of hiking Tiger Leaping Gorge
Jan 27, 2009

... 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 of ...

Train Kunming to Lijiang starting soon
Sep 3, 2009

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
May 30, 2009

... , 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 ...

Wind power for Lijiang
May 30, 2009

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. http://www.jlmpacificepoch.com/ ...

Bored in Lijiang
Nov 1, 2005 (4 photos)

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 by ...

The Olympics - a high altitude spy report
Dec 9, 2007 (10 photos)

... 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
Jul 30, 2008

... 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
Mar 23, 2008 (2 photos)

... 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 leafy ...

New train line from Chengdu to Lhasa
Sep 1, 2009

... Group Co., Ltd. Upon completion of the new railway, it will take only eight hours from Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province, to Lhasa, capital of Tibet. The electrified railway will serve as a link for the Sichuan-Chongqing area, ...

Not so pleasant in the great outdoors
Nov 11, 2008

... concrete slab to sit on. We talked away, as much as I can converse, and once I told them I was a local, and had been in Lijiang after the big quake to set up a project, they seemed to be more friendly. While I waited for my friend to come down, they even ...

Close Quarters Sleeping
May 18, 2006 (6 photos)

... the bus teetering on the edge of the road at times with a sheer drop down to the rapids of the river below. Back in Lijiang bus station I managed to get a ticket to Kunming on a sleeper bus leaving tonight although I only just had enough money for the ...

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 ...

Stricter entry fee enforcement Lijiang Old Town
Jun 17, 2009

... Pool, and also to buy a ticket for other attractions. The attractive tourist destination Lijiang City, a UNESCO heritage site located in southwest China's Yunnan Province, is increasing enforcement of a mandatory maintenance fee often evaded by tourists, ...

Sweetest honey on earth
Mar 15, 2009

Honey usually comes in liquid form. But some of the most amazing honey I've bought is in rock form. Not in a honeycomb, but preserved and crystalised in a rock. Here, there are stories about people putting glucose in honey, or cutting it with lard ...