Dali, Lijiang and over-dramatized train travel
January 5th 2011 Dali and Lijiang are two places that are on Southwest China's tourist trail. Aside from the "old town" experience, we weren't really sure what else to do here. The experience is getting a bit old itself as it's all beginning to look too much the same. Old towns reconstructed with new buildings in the old style. I think Dali takes the cake here as they've now resorted to painting brick patterns
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