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We flew from Kunming to Lijiang and were quickly delighted by the old city. It's a maze of 2-storey wood and stone buildings that line laneways and canals.
Billy took this nice aerial shot to show the density of the old city!
Exploring the city with the critical map in hand.
This water wheel was connected to grinders that pounded flour or rice or something.
At night the city lit up and was sooo beautiful! Red lanterns everywhere.
We went to Black Dragon Pool park, which was what I think is a typical park... very much manicured, but still very pleasant. In the background, there is SNOW on Jade Snow Mountain. Haven't seen snow in a while!
I bought a giant sun hat to compensate for my lost sunnies ;) We had a day of shopping... we bought fleeces and food supplies for our hike to Tiger Leaping Gorge (next entry). The supermarket was ridiculous... there are salespeople walking around the store eager to help you with whatever (but to us they just seemed to follow us around), there is no fresh food, and everything is in 5 times as much packaging material as I deem to be necessary. It took us quite a while to figure out what to buy, but we ended up reasonably successful. I think everything turned out to be at least edible.
One of the hundreds of Chinglish signs around town.... this was one of our favourites! "Civilized behaviour of tourists is another bright scenery rational shopping." -- Okay, got it!
Exploring the markets... I was off to buy some fresh fruit. We also bought freshly made potato chips (straight from the fryer), but they weren't very good. Big fat bummer.
I bought a giant sun hat to compensate for my lost sunnies ;) We had a day of shopping... we bought fleeces and food supplies for our hike to Tiger Leaping Gorge (next entry). The supermarket was ridiculous... there are salespeople walking around the store eager to help you with whatever (but to us they just seemed to follow us around), there is no fresh food, and everything is in 5 times as much packaging material as I deem to be necessary. It took us quite a while to figure out what to buy, but we ended up reasonably successful. I think everything turned out to be at least edible.
One of the hundreds of Chinglish signs around town.... this was one of our favourites! "Civilized behaviour of tourists is another bright scenery rational shopping." -- Okay, got it!
Exploring the markets... I was off to buy some fresh fruit. We also bought freshly made potato chips (straight from the fryer), but they weren't very good. Big fat bummer.We ate at Prague's Cafe 3 times because we have been finding chinese restaurants to be extremely hit or miss... actually, mostly miss. It's a bit disappointing really. One night we had a great dinner at a MEXICAN restaurant!?!
Our hostel was really, really good... we met all sorts of nice people who gave advice on the trek to Tiger Leaping Gorge, and the staff was uber helpful. All of a sudden it was so easy to get things done, which was quite a relief! I (kersti) also got to do lots of reading and relaxing.
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Great photos!
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