Lijiang - Old Town

Lijiang

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November 23rd 2008
Lijiang has been the base of our operations in northern yunnan. Lijiang has a maze of cobbled streets, rickety old wooden buildings and gushing canals. The place to go in Lijiang is the old town. Outside of the old town Lijiang is really just another developing chinese city with almost nothing to do. The city is up in the mountains and you can catch great sights of Yulong Snow mountain almost any ... read more

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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