New City - Lijiang

A view from Elephant mountain overlooking a lot of the modern Lijiang.

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October 3rd 2007
Left Dali about 9am on the 1st Oct heading for Lijiang, 160km north. The road was quite good, but not the freeway & tunnels involved in our trip from Kunming to Dali, although it won't be too long before this is the case as we could see the support structures already in place for an elevated road through the higher ground paralleling much of our trip. This trip took us higher into mountainous regi ... read more

Asia » China » Yunnan » Lijiang

For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more

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