Old Town Family Hostel
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The old town of Lijiang
... Baba, it is a thick wheat flatbread stuffed with meat, vegetables or sweets. Very yummy, but decadent.
Sam ate some Yak meat too, he wasn't to sure about that flavour.
The word Naxi descends from ethnically Tibetan Qiang tribes, and lived until recently in matrilineal families, which basically means the women run the show.
We walked up to the ...
The (way too popular) old town of Lijiang
... it seemed ;-).
Off to Kunming to get our visa for Vietnam
As Lijiang is too busy and not that huge, we are now heading after one day in town to Kunming, the biggest city and capital of Yunnan provence to acquire our visa for Vietnam. Let's hope that we can get the visa within one day so we do not have to spend much time in this (according to our travel book and other traveler's word of mouth) not really interesting city :-).
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Tiger Leaping Gorge
A spectacular two day hike through one of the world’s deepest gorges
The tiger leaping gorge is a 16 km long gorge and one of the deepest in the world. It measures up to 3.900 meters from the top of snow covered Haba Shan mountain to the Jinsha Jiang River floating down below. For the tourists, two trails and one road have been built through the gorge. The road is for the laziest tourists, who start at one side of the gorge and then hire a car to be driven to ...
Tenth Day: Lijiang
We are in Heaven. Having left Kunming (the T is silent), having made our views clearly felt in a report in which we were asked (unwisely in our view) to express our views. We are now safely arrived in Lijiang. We were met by Andi, our new guide. He is an Naxi, a minority ethnic group member. The Naxi (pronounced Nashi) are at one with Nature. They believe that we are at one with the whole creation of the universe. Everything living thing and, indeed, all nature, is to ...
Team Tiger Grabs the Tiger by the Tail
... to pass on that.
It helped that some of the younger hikers at that point walked in and told us they'd done the descent and that it "was worse than the 28 bends and not worth it at all".
Right decision.
So we toasted making it though the Gorge hike -- Sonia and I headed back to Lijiang while the others decided to spend one more night.
A few hours later we got back to Lijiang and keeled over on the ...
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