A waterside Lijiang home

Lijiang

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March 6th 2010
I spent just one day in Lijiang old town, but the experience of staying at Mama Naxi's guesthouse will stay with me forever! Mama Naxi is a ferocious little business woman and runs her guesthouse the way a grandmother would run a house full of grandchildren. I arrived late at night and was presented with a banana and packed off to bed. Mama Naxi even came into the dorm room to turn the light out, ... 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