Lijiang Courtyard & Sunlight
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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 ...
Venedigs Schwester im Geiste
... am Sifang Platz. Von hier ausgehend verzweigen die Hauptstraßen wie Äste in immer kleinere Abzweigungen, die oft ganz unverhofft bereits bekannte Ecken und Straßenzüge miteinander verbinden, oder doch zu Sackgassen werden. Vom "Lion Hill" und dem darauf befindlichen Turm am Rande der Altstadt überlickt ein wunderschönes Meer aus grauen Ziegeldächern. 1995 wurden vieler dieser Häuser bei einem heftigen Erdbeben zerstört, inzwischen aber ...
Horseback Riding and Boating in the Mountains
... legs. Many of the horses would try to occasionally drink water, eat greenery from the side of the trail, or take a path through the woods. There was a guide in charge of every four horses, and they were constantly yelling loud commands in Chinese. My horse was quite feisty. It was agressive toward other horses when its head got near another horses head. He would bite at the other horse and rear up a little. When ...
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