The Tea Boutique Hotel Lijiang

The main Naxi town

Lijiang

No-one is quite sure where Hilton's Shangri-La is but it is generally accepted to be in the Tibetan region. Zhongdian, in north-west Yunnan province, part of Greater Tibet was offically renamed Shangri-La after a competition in 2003. We decide not to visit Zhondian because of potential snow but head to Lijiang instead where we buy a copy of Lost Horizon by James Hilton.

Lijiang is a delightful old town. There are the charming water wheels at ...

Lijiang, Yunnan, China travellin.light

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Lijiang, Yunnan, China happysheep

Journey to the West - IX

... and it may be the last time to be able to hike on the trail if the government goes ahead with their plan of building a dam there. I left Naxi Family house at 8am and got to Qiautou around 10 just in time to catch a bus back to Lijiang.

Back in Lijiang, I walked the streets one more time and indulged in local food at Nr. 88 Naxi snacks, at Nr. 52 another Naxi restaurant and at Aan Yoghurt, local made yoghurt that can be ordered with ...

Lijiang, Yunnan, China grizzly

Exploring beautiful Old Town

... I could look down over Old Town to this sea of slate grey rooves . It looks flat as there are no high buildings. The old town is 800 years old & so well preserved & anything new or restored is built in the traditional way. At one time I got totally lost & couldn’t ...

Lijiang, Yunnan, China hilaryramsey

Day 18 - The Lake

... just resulted in us going round in circles. The man with the bamboo had the strance talents of been able to tell how long a fish had been dead for, there were several floating on the lakes surface, one day dead seemed to be ok but he didnt seem to like the one I pointed out to him that was three days old. He took us nexto another boat, this wooden boat had an old man with a bbq cooking various animals that he had caught, he didnt seem t work about this ...

Lijiang City, Yunnan Province, China thom_ayers

Back in the Saddle Again

... and I had a nap because someone is using the computer. After our break we went back out and checked a few other tour offices. I went into a shop while Bill was at a bank machine and purchased an inexpensive bracelet with some jade on it (and maple leaves). We wandered in and out of several restaurants that either had no food or no English or not what we were looking for. We were forced to choose a spot when it started raining. We went to Maxi ...

Lijiang, Yunnan, China theresabill

tiger leaping gorge

... area. the gorge itself is beautiful but it is hard to really get the true beauty of it, due to the smog in china. Well a few funny things happen to me again, one bit of advice do not change your camera battery over a river it may drop in, well at least i had a spare, also my underpants flew into the river aswell while they were drying so that is my departing gift to the yangtze - its the thought that counts Yichang We are there for just one day but it is a nice ...

Lijiang, China heinz82

Lijiang and Tiger Leaping Gorge

... my cup anyway. We stopped to lay up for the night at Tree Horse Guesthouse which seemed to be the most popular overnight spot. There were plenty of people there but I still managed to get a room with a massive window looking straight out onto the gorge. The food was really nice and the beer the same price as down in Lijiang; somewhat surprising when you compare it to huts in the Alps or similar out of the way places in the UK. There was a good group of ...

Lijiang, China simonmain1

Mama Naxi Part Trois - New and Improved w Pics

... of Chinese medicine, even some sickly sweet cough medicine from her own stock. She really took good care of me like if I were one of her kids. You gotta love Mama. Baba is great too. He doesn't really speak any English, but he knows the buses in Lijiang like the back of his hand. He can book just about any ticket if given enough notice and will personally take you to the bus station. The second time in tourist hell, I didn't even stay there and he took me anyway ...

Lijiang, China rcys

Lijiang

... is also the jumping off point for Tiger Leaping Gorge, one of the deepest gorges in the world, and so called because it is so narrow in places that a tiger jumped it in Chinese legend. However, the road was blocked due to high rainful and a landslide with no clear word when it would re-open. We decided therefore to move on. We experienced more strange food delights of the Naxi ...

Lijiang, China dunnsage