Chongqing and the Dazu Stones

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Day Trip to Dazu Signed up for the wrong tour. I thought I was going to some park with a gorge and waterfalls. Turned out to be to the UNESCO World Heritage site (two sites, actually) in Dazu.   We stopped in some small tourist setup, Some “antique” old-town style buildings.        Read more

Dali day 3

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Morning in Dali Old Town before train to Lijiang   A snack some sauce-covered flap of something on a stick. Not bad.     Streets right outside the old town have some good bargains. I bought a traditional Dali Blue tie-dye cloth here.       Killing some time in a temple in the oldRead more

Lijaing, Yunnan

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I had originally flew into Lijiang, but immediately took a bus to Shangri-La and I didn’t get much of a chance to see Lijiang until the evening I returned. Surrounded by granite mountains, deep gorges, and red clay hills, Lijiang lies within a 8,000 ft high level plain crossroads of established trade routes and minority cultures. The developedRead more