Love Hostel Lijiang

... busy thoroughfare on the fringes of what is known as the “New town”. During that time we see many examples of traditional costumes and not just amongst the older women. These are people going about their daily business, young mothers with babies on their backs or women with shopping baskets, also on their backs.

Tourism can be a blessing in terms of the money it brings but it can also damage traditional ways of life. However, I find it ...

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... played on original instruments, some of which were buried during the Cultural Revolution lest they be smashed. Local historian of note Xuan Ke speaks for the group at performances and at the end gives his autograph to anyone who desires so. Ticket prices are 120, 140 and 160 RMB and the show starts at 8pm until about 9ish every day.

All of the members were colorful traditional robes and play a variety of old instruments. Two lovely ...

... time in Shuhe/Lijiang truly a magical experience.


The wonderful dinner we joined for the Mid Autumn Festival. By the way, Peter invites his guests to join every night for dinner with him. The food is probably the best we've had yet in China and the variety of unique vegetarian dishes is inspiring. It's well worth the mere 15 ...

... and carefree", though they do not agree that "Lhasa
ranks second among the laziest cities."

Lhasa is a leisurely and
carefree city, according to Mr. Zhang, a businessman in Lhasa. Zhang believes
that although it is not appropriate to use "lazy" to describe the city,
generally such a choice is reasonable ...

... waterways, records of plants, volcanoes and peoples. While he revealed mysterious, one mystery remains: how did he die? He was poisoned to death it seems, in 1641. His death, and the publication of his travelogue 'The Travel Diaries' in 1776, meant he quickly became regarded as the patron saint of travelers in China (quite a feat in an atheist nation). Stories are told to this day about how he trekked around Beijing, Hebei, Shandong, Anhui, Henan ...

... Janice is a member of 2 of the minority groups, Pumi and Tibetan, herself. Other minority groups include the Naxi, Bai, and Yi. Janice also explained that Lijiang means beautiful river and the place certainly is a lot more beautiful and pollution free than the other parts of China that we've been to so far. After dropping our bags off at the hotel Janice took us to Black Dragon Pool Park for a nice stroll with great scenery. She explained that ...

... two-wheeled motorised vehicles replaced the hordes of bicycles that used to crowd the streets. And practically the only plastic bags we saw in the city were handed out in the oversized Carrefour, similar in size to an American shopping mall, only this giant is smack-bang in the centre of the city. Elsewhere, shopping is carefully placed in a soft bag the material of which we have not yet identified. Is it in a genuine effort to reduce the number of plastic ...

... there and then the tour guide walked us through the streets telling us different things. There were small rivers running through it and it had the feel of a small shopping village similar to Zhouzhuang near Shanghai. The rivers used to be used at certain times of the day for particular tasks before they had water in their homes. There would be specific times for ...

... or something. The driver explained that there were special "longer" beds at the back that we would prefer. ********, we knew we had the prime beds, we had booked them on purpose. Funny how when we had the ****** beds coming from Hekou, they never offered to swap us into the special longer ones. Never mind, we were "laid" next to a Chinese student who was very friendly, and excited about making her dream trip to Lijiang. Not ...