Jade Dragon Garden Hotel
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The old town of Lijiang
Lijiang is a maze of cobbled streets, rickety wooden buildings and canals.
Very easy to get lost, which we did, wandering through the lanes and alleys lined with stalls making and selling beautiful handcrafts and knick-knacks.
I love coming to a new place and seeing all the different styles of street foods, here they call them Naxi snacks. One style ...
The (way too popular) old town of Lijiang
... its beautiful location around some great mountain ranges and its cultural mix of different ethnical groups. Unfortunately in 1996 a major earthquake destroyed a lot of the city, but thanks to the regular tourist invasions (and related money flow), the town has been rebuilt (although in a Chinese fashion, i.e. not everywhere in an authentic way).
The city is surely beautiful, containing countless water channels running through ...
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 ...
In to Tibet
... of Kham events such as further self immolations, and even the Dalai Lama’s birthday meant that in theory travel was not permitted. No bus tickets were sold to foreign tourists, and phone and internet services were suddenly completely unavailable, presumably so as news could not be received or passed on. ...
Going South / Arrivederci Cina/ Dalej na Poludnie
... a czsu coraz mniej. Na szczescie docieramy na miejsce noclegu zaraz po zachodzie slonca. Biesiadujemy z Andym i Bethan do pozna ale nastepnego dnia rano udaje nam sie obudzic odpowiednio wczesnie aby podziwiac wschod slonca. Drugi dzien drogi jest duzo latwiejszy. Spacerkiem na dol do doliny podziwiajac przepiekne widoki. Nastepnie autobusem do Lijang - cukierkowo malowniczego starego miasta. Tam odpoczywamy i wreszcie wygrzewamy sie troche w ...
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