Following our epic journey to Lugu Lake we returned to the city of Lijiang, a city of about 750,000 people, which lays in a broad valley at one of which is the beautiful range in which Yulong Xueshan (snow maintain) can be seen. The modern city is attractive as a whole, with broad main streets, distinguished among Chinese cities of its size by its lack of high-rise development. Lijiang is the heartland of the fascinating Naxi culture, which is still strong in many respects, although the majority in Lijiang is from other ethnic groups, particular the Han Chinese. The Naxi continue to use to some degree, the worlds only true pictorial script, known as Dongba. A section of the city is known as Lijiang Ancient City, having a street layout, and a style reaching back many
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