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Published: August 24th 2012
CHINA: Liming...1,000 Tortoises Running with the Lisu.
Liming...with three sunrises each day and the largest and best developed Danxia geological landforms in China...not on any of my maps and not mentioned in my Lonely Planet Guide.
Welcome to China's Best Kept Secret.
It is in the area of the three parallel rivers that sweep out of Tibet.
The sign describes it thus:
"Elevated at 2,300 -...
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Home and Away
Bob Carlsen
We are familiar with the Lisu...
they are another hill tribe that ranged southward into northern Thailand. Our cook in Chiang Mai in 1974 was Lisu. She really hadn't adjusted to civilization. When we were on vacation in Europe, her and her husband who was Lahu, planted our front yard with corn. When we got home we found corn growing everywhere. I guess they didn't understand why we didn't use such good planting space. We had then pull all the corn plants out to restore our lawn. Anyway, I would love to visit this hidden corner of China someday.