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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
... does offer amazing views (sometimes very, very close to the edge).
It takes two days to hike all the way through the gorge if one wants to enjoy the views and create the mandatory photo-documentation :-). A few guest houses on the way are offering some basic but helpful accommodation, with great views as well. By the way, the name Tiger Leaping Gorge originates from a legend which says that once upon a time a tiger jumped from one of the rocks in the river ...
In to Tibet
... to make friends with the kittens at the guest house at Tiger Leaping Gorge. As you can see they happily fell asleep on my knee and then decided they’d quite like to come with me so hopped into my bag ready for the journey. Much as I would have loved their company we all decided, especially their ...
Lovely Lijiang
I was in Lijiang for 4 days, and Michael for 2 as he went off to trek Tiger Leaping Gorge with the trek. Having been warned that the trek may be torturous for those with a fear of heights I decided in the end I would stay in Lijiang and ...
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