Lijiang China October 21 & 22, 2013

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Lijiang



By Chinese Standards Lijiang is small a city of only 400,000. It is also one of the few cities where the Han Chinese are a minority; 8% of Chinese belong to one of 35 different minorities. Lijiang is considered the capital of the Naxi, descendent from Tibetan nomads who settled the area more than a thousand years ago. Despite the Chinese governments protestations that everything is great, when we left the airport the driver had to stop at a checkpoint and show our passports, the hotel kept them overnight and when we toured the next day we were told to take our passports with us. This had not happened in other city.

On the 22nd we were off to visit Baisha Village, the Naxi village of Yuhu, and to take a bus ride and then a cable carried up to Yak Meadow, so named because the local people like to pasture their yaks there. Yak Meadow is located at more than 11,000 feet about 1,500 higher than Lijiang

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Photos

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In the old town there were displays of flowers everywhere

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Mare and our leader Pam

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At the entrance to a temple at the Dark Dragon Pool

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A small herd of Yaks on the slope of the mountain leading to Yak Meadow

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North American west coast people weren't the only ones building totem poles

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A monastery at Yak Meadow

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Yak Meadow

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Very close to a rainbow

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Mare and some local ladies

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The routes of the famous Silk Roads

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Who says women are the weaker sex?

Comments

[Sue]

Award winning photo for sure....
Hi Morgan - You should enter 866 into a photo contest - it's spectacular! Sue

[Morgan Mare]

Thank you
Hi Sue, we continue with our travels. Hope all is well with you. Morgan

[D MJ Binkley]

Lovely photo
What a view

[Morgan Mare]

Thank you
My wife and I are trying to see as much of the world as we can. I have no [articular favorites but would say that New Zealand was the most beautiful that we have visited todate

[Morgan Mare]

Thank you, the scenery was great. If this had been in North America I would have gone hiking, but not a good idea in China, particularly close to Tibet.