Lijiang
31.07.2008
We flew from Kunming to Lijiang early yesterday morning. We are staying in the old town and it is very VERY old. It reminds me of a mixture of France and Mexico- cobblestone streets and dirty houses. Its very interesting to look at though. I have pictures, but Alex is on the EeePC now- I'm using the public computer at the hostel.
We're staying at Panba Guest House, we were here last night and tonight, in an 8 person dorm room. I got the top bunk over Kailey. We explored the town yesterday and went to dinner at a Tibetan restaurant, it was very good. Tonight we're eating at the hostel, only 15RMB for the whole meal (thats about 2USD!). Kailey bought a skirt and a shawl, I haven't seen anything that I really want yet. I'm tempted by the fur things that they sell here, its so cheap for real fur and beautiful, but I know that you can't really wear fur in California without someone throwing chicken blood on you or something. Alex and I went into this Temple, it was very pretty but then some monks tried to get us to give them 300RMB for telling our futures. We didn't give it to them, even though they were pretty convincing that we would have 51 years of good luck. Tomorrow is the day we hike the Tiger Leaping Gorge.
Posted by Hparrish 02:04 Archived in China Tagged tourist_sites
