Shuhe Lijiang K2 International Youth Hostel
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My Li Jiang base in Shuhe
Got a ride to Li Jiang with some cool young chinese backpackers who were travelling up to Lhasa Tibet via a beast of a land rover which I named Rhino for them because well every car needs a name! So hoped in for the 3 hour ride to Li Jiang with Ben, Fiona and John we stopped a few times and Ben pointed out a few villages on the way saying 'this is …
The old town of Lijiang
... Pool Park, where you can get a stunning view of Jade Dragon Snow mountain and a glimpse of the traditional Naxi lifestyle.
Ordering food down this part of china is a bit more difficult, for lunch we ended up with 5 small pieces of pork and some kind of fried pastry with sugar sprinkled over it,
We thought we ordered pork stir fry and wontons.
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The (way too popular) old town of Lijiang
... many tourists...
What a touristy town
The first line in our Lonely Plant article on Lijiang summarizes it quite well as follows: "How popular is this forgotten place, that it is so overcrowded?". The little city is visited by about five million!! tourists each year. Even during our visit in late November (i.e. off-season), hundreds of tourists (western as well as many Chinese) streamed through the little ...
Tiger Leaping Gorge
... that we came to the Tiger Leaping Gorge during off-season. The view-point platform was very tiny and had a sign in front of it, asking each tourist to pay 8 Yuan (1 Euro) for access. It would surely have been true horror during peak-season, having to pay not only the 8 Yuan (when we had already paid the national park entrance fee of 65 Yuan), but also we would have not had a single picture without crowds of other tourists on it, and needless to say the unpleasant noise ...
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Das Busfahren als passives Fortbewegen, auf staubig-rauen Sitzbänken, der Blick umher fliegend: gleiten lassen.
Die Berge treten aus der Tiefe hervor,
die Sphäre dehnt sich, zerrend.
Ob es möglich wäre, in die Leere des Raums einzutauchen, der sich überall umher weitet, zu verschwinden, zu entwischen vor dem alles umfassenden was-auch-immer?
Mir kommen Bilder von alten Roadmovies zu Bewusstsein, während ich schweife im Blick. Der Mythos ...
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