DisneyLijiang

Trip Start Sep 01, 2005
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Trip End Dec 04, 2006


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Thursday, August 31, 2006

After I was toed by village woman I needed to recover and what better place than in Lijiang. It's an ancient city with narrow cobblestone streets, canals flowing throughout the town which has been kept pedestrian friendly. It was a bit like Disneyland full of Chinese tourists with the usual flag touting tour groups bustling through the town. The place is beautiful enough for you to ignore them although it was hard when at dinner you would be eating your meal and tables in restaraunts opposite start doing the Ya-So chant. Basically this chant involves everyone singing a part of a choosen song and at the end everyone adds Yaso-yaso-ya-ya-so...yeah *victory sign*. This went on for the duration of the meal and no doubt until the early hours of the morning however we were in bed by 10pm watching our favourite TV shows. TV here basically consists of two types of shows. Drama is one . The other are chinese pop star reality shows which are a barrel of laughs. There is this one host that takes a very ......... 01 The Mao Man
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Another TV highlight was this one channel dedicated to circus acts at 9pm every night where we witnessed a girl from Vietnam who could hula hoop rings all over her body, some 40 odd hoops. How does someone learn to do such a thing?

Lijiang is also home to the Naxi people who are unique for their Dongba writing script (like webdings). They also like dancing around in the main square wearing their comunist blue hats!

Got to meet up with Jeremy (Amber's brother) and his friend Eileen who are on break from their time studying in Hangzhou in the east. From here we headed off together to do the Tiger Leaping Gorge trek.
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