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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
... most of them crowded around the central place of the old town and never seemed to get out into the remote little alleys, which we enjoyed the most as a matter of fact.
Unfortunately due to the tourist masses, all houses are dedicated entirely to tourism by either containing a souvenir shop, a tourist accomodation or a tourist cafe or bar. So all the real inhabitants live outside of the old town, making Lijiang in my eyes a ...
Tiger Leaping Gorge
... river (the famous Tiger Leap). Yeah whatever story makes a good name for marketing reasons ;-).
A great hike during off-season
Day one started off in a foggy morning and quickly turned into a beautifully sunny day, with us sweating like there is no tomorrow when we climbed up the steepest section called the 28 bends (due to 28 mountain path curves to be mastered). After this tough climb, we arrived at the first official view point and were quickly ...
Lijiang: Last Stop of Pilgrimage
... wind-string instruments played by generations of their people. We return time and time again to Shuhe and Old Town Lijiang to walk the narrow streets with Chinese tourists, visiting the mostly Naxi owned cafes and stores selling silver bracelets, necklaces, jade and articles engraved with Dongba pictographs. Tibetan Buddhist stores sell prayer beads and necklaces. And, teashops are everywhere selling the much-prized local Puer Teas.
Just ...
Day 3 Lijiang
... chopsticks, yak meat, jade bracelets and even more yak meat. We walked down to the town square which has long given way to the tourists and me and Edana became tourist attractions ourselves with lots of Chinese very unnonchilantly taking our photos. We walked back to our room via all the bars which were crammed with Chinese. Each bar had its 'thing' weather it was strange stage shows, karaoke or skillful cocktail waiters. Lijiang might just be their Malaga or Mallorca. ...
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