Adange Hotel Lijiang

... with its sister town Lijiang, it is also part of the UNESCO Heritage site. Shuhe is the earliest settlement of Naxi people in Lijiang when their ancestors first moved to this region. As mentioned, the town is just like a small-sized Lijiang with a similar layout, which boasts a Square Street (Sifangjie) and rivers flowing throughout the town. Compared with Lijiang, the town is less touristy and polished with more original characters. In ...

... was getting late and crowded are you kidding me at times I felt like I was in line for a Beyonce concert it ws that pact at times that I just turned around and took another route. Li Jiang old town is pretty with all its lights cobble stomne roads with no cars the water streams running through it and then the floating candels passing by its nice but the noise from the crowd the competing bars and the same shops made me glad I was not staying here.<br>

... aux gens dans la rue. Pour leur laideur. <br><br>Oui je suis superficiel. Mais dans le mot Superficiel y'a le mot Super donc vos yeules. Sauf toi grand-maman, tu peux continuer de parler. Mais je te garantie que grand-papa ecoute par sa bouche donc c'est peine perdu. Ah pis je t'aime aussi grand-papa.<br><br>Je disais? Ouais! Dali c'est un bateau qui coule, une ville sans ame, sans coeur, et ou tous les menus refusent d'afficher leur ...

... and not for the better as its become really touristy and is packed everywhere but its still really pretty and relaxing.<br><br>We are heading to Tiger Leaping Gorge tomorrow to trek along the violent start of the Yangze river. From there we head to Shangri la on the Tibetan border which sounds amazing but will keep you all posted. <br>

... It was built to carry the torch from Lijiang to Shangri-la to Chengdu for the Beijing Olympics. The last part of the road was not quite as smooth. Along the way to Tiger Leaping Gorge we saw villages, fields, a brick factory, people harvesting wheat and potatoes, black goats, oxen ploughing, roadside stands with strawberries, mulberries, plums, watermelon and nectarines. One of the main crops in this province is tobacco. We saw several smoke houses ...

Started off this morning at 8.30, through the city and like yesterday we were suddenly in rural China riding past the village of Su He and stopping for a shopping stop at Baisha where quite a few purchases were made. Usually bought at less than half the original asking price. Then a short ride out to our morning tea stop at a temple but ...

... bathroom. The trail went down and then continued to go down, it was too late to turn around. Finally, we found the place, really someones house with an extra couple of rooms. However, the view was amazing, it forced us to sit down and take notice. I was suffering from diarrhea so we decided to take a rest and eat some lunch. The couple was very friendly, but they spoke no English. They quickly handed us some notebooks and a Chinese ...

... that guy to see if I can get a copy of the video that aired. If I do, I'll post it on here of course. The best and only real reason to go to Lijiang is to visit Mama and Baba. Well... that and the obligatory visit to Bar Street and the Sexy Tractor. For my first 5 days in Lijiang, I decided to avoid the noise that was coming from Bar Street and every time I heard it, I walked in the other direction. It wasn't until a Kiwi came to town that I decided to play tour ...

... a closer look (snap snap with the camera) and took off. We'd hired bikes for the day (this time they were kick **** with dual suspension, lightweight frames and disc brakes - still for only 70p!) so rode down to the nearby lake through the local villages. We were met with the usual barrage of Nihao's and Hello's but this time were also spat on, oh well. Each village had its only sleepy atmosphere were we saw such things as an outdoor pool tournament and the usual ...

... Venice of the east with its many narrow waterways cutting through it is home to the Naxi people. One third of the town was destroyed by an earthquake in 1996, so most of the traditional style houses and streets are actually reconstructions. Nevertheless it is an overwhelmingly beautiful place to hang out and therefore accorded the status of being a UNESCO world heritage site. Tourism here has boomed and I make yet another big mistake, which is to visit ...