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Lijiang River beam, Chama Ancient Town, Lijiang, Yunnan, 674100, China
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There is now a china holiday the first weekend of june... should i avoid going to lijiang at that time? how many days enough before heading to tiger leaping gorge and zhongdian? i have 6-7 nites to spend all together. thank you!
Lijiang is a very touristic city, so yes, I'd avoid going there during a chinese holiday.The Leaping Gorge is on the way to Zhongdjan, so 6 nights are enough, I would spend most time in Zhongdjan anyway, less touristic and some really nice day trips from there.
i was hoping that this holiday wouldn't put too many people on the road. wishful thinking. thank you!
If you're thinking of traveling anywhere during a Chinese national holiday, make your reservations as far in advance as possible. Everyplace will be jam-packed.
Lijiang is indeed very popular with domestic Chinese tourists. Zhongdian perhaps slightly less so, but growing since they renamed it to "Shangri-La" and started promoting tourism so heavily. If you want to go I'd split time roughly equally. If you're not planning on hiking Tiger Leaping Gorge (and I wouldn't when it's really crowded), you can stop on the trip between Lijiang and Zhongdian. Most of the tourist buses stop for lunch at a truck-stop town right at the gorge, a pretty spectacular view is only a few minutes walk from there.
Are you refering to the Dragon Boat Festival? To be honest noone really knows how it will affect the amount of local chinese tourist heading to lijiang. Even this May Labour day (shorten from 7 days to 3 days) most inns here in Lijiang are afraid to report a definate room rate as most of the inn owners here want to see the amount of tourists heading to lijiang and what their fellow inn owners do before committing as they are afraid if they sprout the usual peak rates and there isn't enough demand or give a rate that is too low and lose out.
For tiger leaping gouge, it really depends on what you wanna do there. some people take a 2 day/1 night hike, some just take a day trip. Just sightseeing Lijiang and most of the nearby sights can easily take a week, more if you want to take it easy. If you intend to head to shangerila(2-3 days), meili snow mountain (4 days usually), lugu lake (2-3 days) than you can easily add another week to your trip.
Chinese people are actually very friendly, except some of them from money driven cities such as Guangzhou & Shenzhen. I met these group of mainland Chinese tourists from Guizhou when I stepped in a guest house in Lijiang, they don't speak English, but were having fun singing and playing with this Dutch guy. They even invited him for dinner.
There's more here than the tourist stuff. Just look around and it's a nice place... men smoking bamboo pipes, mothers and babies, chilis hung to dry, walls crumbling to reveal the inner layers- a physical embodiment of the facade that is China. Right now I'm dealing with angry superiors for not letting students cheat on the makeup exam they took after cheating on the first semester exam. Anyway, back on track here, Lijiang is a facade, but it's quite a pleasant one. It's a tourist destination, kept intact for tourists, while sucking up their dollars as fast as possible. It's a hive of capitalism and commercialism, and a beautiful one at that. Lijiang is a unique contrast between old China (architecturally) and new China (economically), and it's an interesting place because of it.
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BinGO! When you see this huge entrance with these three word - ?????? ( hei long tan) on it ..means that you have reached the entrance of black dragon pool! There is another four words hanging on the red cloth means "welcome spring feastival"...This cloth will only be hanging there during Chinese New year period.
Ten kilometers (six miles) northwest of Lijiang Old Town, there are several ancient villages. The most famous frescos are known as Baisha Mural of the Dabaoji (Great Treasure) Palace and the Colored Glaze Temple (Liuli Dian) in the town of Baisha.
Lijiang Mural was created at about 300 hundred years. The authors of these mural paintings had come from different nations, including the local Naxi Dongba painters; the Taoist painter Zhang from the Central Plain; Tibetan Lama artist Guchang; Han painters Ma Xiaoxian and Li Zeng; and many other artists who were unknown to the public
This pavilion was built in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty (1573-1619) and then rebuilt in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. It used to be the library of the former magistrate of the Lijiang prefecture. The weight of the double-eaved roof is borne by brackets. The partition doors and windows are carved with flowers, birds of the four seasons and the pattern of good luck.
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