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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
... tourist-attraction-city. Also at night-time the central market place and surrounding streets offer a weird and somehow uninviting party-atmosphere with drunk and loud Chinese (and also western, but those seem to be better accustomed to partying and the consequences).
Nonetheless we enjoyed our one day stay in Lijiang, as we got eventually lost in the remote little alleys when walking off the main tourist roads. This was really a ...
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 ...
Shuhe - Peace & Quiet, but that's not all...
... br> N: I love your words, Victoria. We should bring you along to do the write-ups.
V: Sounds great! Where are we going next? ...Brazil? or the Mediterranean maybe? A Crete, Cypress, Turkey jaunt perhaps?
N: With maybe Portugal thrown in?
V: And since we are so close- Spain also. I would love to see the Alhambra.
N: Absolutely, as long as we can have ox tail and the roast chicken they cut with a ...
Lijiang: Last Stop of Pilgrimage
... and protected from what seem like endless torrential rains and winds, I have finally found inspiration to write this. It’s called The Blog Book. If I want to create books of the SmithandFriends in China blog and get them back in time to wrap and give as Christmas presents, this last entry needs finis NOW. Nothing like a deadline!
Though too many Chinese and tourists from all over the globe (like us) have discovered Lijiang, ...
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